Gays In Crimea Split On Referendum

Gays In Crimea Split On Referendum
A Russian soldier patrols on a chimney with Russian flags at the Ukrainian navy headquarters in the Crimean city of Sevastopol on March 19, 2014. Pro-Russian forces captured Ukraine's naval commander after seizing his headquarters in Crimea on Wednesday as Moscow's grip tightened on the peninsula despite Western warnings its 'annexation' would not go unpunished. AFP PHOTO/ VIKTOR DRACHEV (Photo credit should read VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP/Getty Images)
A Russian soldier patrols on a chimney with Russian flags at the Ukrainian navy headquarters in the Crimean city of Sevastopol on March 19, 2014. Pro-Russian forces captured Ukraine's naval commander after seizing his headquarters in Crimea on Wednesday as Moscow's grip tightened on the peninsula despite Western warnings its 'annexation' would not go unpunished. AFP PHOTO/ VIKTOR DRACHEV (Photo credit should read VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP/Getty Images)

SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine It lasted about five minutes. Someone hit him in the back of the head, and he crumbled to the ground.

Around fifteen people swarmed him afterward, he recalled. They punched him in the face. But the worst part wasn't the pain — it was the humiliation.

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