Bogdan Globa is a human rights activist who left Ukraine and relocated to New York in 2016. He is the first openly gay person to present a speech to the Ukrainian parliament, Verkhovna Rada. Bogdan lobbied antidiscrimination and civil partnership laws in Ukraine. From 2015 until 2016, he worked as an assistant to the chairman of the Human Rights Committee of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Hryhoriy Nemyria. Today Bogdan is the founder and leader of the New York-based ProudUkraine, an association of LGBT+ Ukrainians living in North America, committed to assisting others and raising awareness of issues that LGBT+ individuals in Ukraine are facing.