(25 May 2013) SHOTLIST
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1. Mid of anti-gay activist seizing the rainbow flag from gay rights demonstrators
2. Wide of police surrounding anti-gay activist
3. Mid of police arresting anti-gay activist
4. Various of gay rights march
5. Wide of gay right march; anti gay activist runs towards them tearing down banners
6. Wide of police running after activist
7. Various of riot police clashing with anti-gay activists
8. Various of police making arrests
9. Various of arrested men being put into police vehicle
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At least 50 gay rights activists marched peacefully in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, on Saturday, despite a court ban and attempts to disrupt the event.
Participants in the Saturday's march held banners against discrimination and derogatory stereotypes of gays.
Riot police were out in force and prevented attempts by around a dozen anti-gay activists to attack marchers.
Several were arrested.
A Ukrainian court on Thursday banned what would have been Ukraine's first-ever gay pride demonstration, upholding a suit by city authorities, who argued the rally would disturb Sunday's Kiev Day celebrations and could spark violence.
While the recognition of gay rights advances in much of the West, antipathy toward homosexuals remains strong in Ukraine and other parts of the former Soviet Union.
Homosexuality was a criminal offence in the Soviet Union and societal resistance to it remains strong more than two decades later.
The highly influential Orthodox Church vehemently opposes gay rights.
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