State of Kyiv-based mainstream NGOs that claim to fight for queer rights:
Excommunicating a trans woman for being friends with a neurodivergent ally woman who insists the orgs call out specific bonehead groups beating up queer people and left-wing allies, and fund their legal cases instead of just telling everybody to go the police on their own, abandoning any systemic effort on bringing boneheads to justice, and sabotaging invites from antifa who offered self-defense training and organizational assistance.
Excommunicating another trans woman for a continuous protest against data mining and refusal to submit personal data to proprietary media, after her last-resort individual strike action involving self-harm (her health is OK but these NGO actions don't help her, they just marginalize her further and put the blame on herself).
More cases, but annoyingly people don't organize and remain silent about it, and from what I see the orgs ignore what's happening in their communities so the conflicts between people grow and leave them atomized, bitter against each other.
If you notice in Western media any interviews, collaborations or other positive spin about Insight, KyivPride, LGBT Military etc, remember they aren't much more than vehicles for promoting their bosses in media. They do trickle down grant money to organize korporativ-like gatherings and public celebrations that they present as community building, but they prevent any actual community from appearing. Yellow union type stuff, extremely toothless and "advocacy"-focused (if by advocacy we mean endless yapping to their existing audience on corporate social media), well-integrated into the capitalist machines and using their influence to harm dissidents, portray them as unhinged (while slowly driving them to actual mental issues in order to pull a "you see she was insane all along" card), ignore them, lie to them, ban them, sue them... Fuck this establishment, I hope they burn.
