Mashable: Ukraine's president voices

LGBT support in a first for the

country

Petro Poroshenko on annual press conference 05.06.2015 (UNIAN Photo)

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko voiced support for LGBT rights.

"I will not participate in it, but I don't see any reason to impede this march because it's a constitutional right of every citizen of Ukraine," he said at a press conference on Friday.

No president of Ukraine — a post-Soviet state of more than 40 million mostly-conservative Orthodox Christians — has ever voiced support of the country's LGBT community, activists told Mashable. Poroshenko has been mostly silent on the topic of LGBT rights until now.

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