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		</div><p>Around 1,000 people have gathered in Kiev for Ukraine&#8217;s first major gay pride march.</p>
<p>Several thousand police officers were guarding the procession in the capital and the rally was peaceful despite far-right groups making threats last week to attack it.</p>
<p>People were marching with rainbow flags and carried placards saying: &#8220;Love has no gender.&#8221;</p>
<p>Bohdan Hloba, one of the rally&#8217;s organisers, said: &#8220;The road to equality in Ukraine is difficult as well as dangerous.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have been threatened with a &#8216;bloodbath&#8217; but every step of this march gives us hope.&#8221;</p>
<p>Authorities sanctioned gay rights marches when the new pro-Western government came into power after the 2014 revolution, but earlier gatherings have been small and have come under attack from far-right groups.</p>
<p>The Kiev city police cordoned off nine streets and closed one subway station on Sunday to ensure tight security and prevent clashes.</p>
<p>However, a few anti-gay activists did get in, although they were not violent.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m against gay propaganda that these sick people have organised here in collusion with authorities,&#8221; said Serhiy Hashchenko, a 56-year-old father of 12 who went to the march carrying a placard saying &#8220;Ukraine is no Sodom&#8221;.</p>
<p>Ultra-nationalist radicals who had threatened to disperse the march were watching it from the security perimeter lined with riot police.</p>
<p>Last year, a gay pride march in Kiev was called off less than half an hour after it began as right-wing activists pelted the marchers with smoke grenades.</p>
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