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Contents:

• GAY MOLDOVA
• GAY CHIS, MOLDOVA – THE NOMADIC BOYS
• MOLDOVA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN JULY 2023
• TOP GAY DTATNS: MOLDOVA
• SOLDIER ‘ABED FOR BEG GAY’ TOLD TO PROVI ‘TIMATE PICTUR’ TO ‘PROVE’ HIS SEXUALY
• GLOBALGAYZ: THE BOOK
• UN MOLDOVA JOT STATEMENT ON LGBTQI+ (LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER & TERSEX PEOPLE) RIGHTS
• OF ALL PLAC, IS MOLDOVA LEADG ON GAY RIGHTS?
• MOLDOVA’S GAY RIGHTS STANCE UNRM ITS EU ASPIRATNS
• GAY MOLDOVA
• GAY CHIS, MOLDOVA – THE NOMADIC BOYS
• MOLDOVA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN JULY 2023
• TOP GAY DTATNS: MOLDOVA
• SOLDIER ‘ABED FOR BEG GAY’ TOLD TO PROVI ‘TIMATE PICTUR’ TO ‘PROVE’ HIS SEXUALY
• GLOBALGAYZ: THE BOOK
• UN MOLDOVA JOT STATEMENT ON LGBTQI+ (LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER & TERSEX PEOPLE) RIGHTS
• OF ALL PLAC, IS MOLDOVA LEADG ON GAY RIGHTS?
• MOLDOVA’S GAY RIGHTS STANCE UNRM ITS EU ASPIRATNS

GAY MOLDOVA

Ten years after passg landmark legislatn to protect mori, cludg the much-persecuted LGBT muny, a recent survey has revealed that most people Moldova still hold negative attus toward lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people. Acrdg to Feldman, 2021, an electn year, was marked by much hate speech, thanks to all the preelectn mpaigng, although 2022 has been marked by several homophobic verbal attacks by policians as well. While homosexualy is legal here, some two thirds of Moldovan society believe that LGBT people should be kicked out of the untry, and only one percent would be ready to accept an LGBT person as a fay member.

”Four homosexual people livg Chișău, the pal, shared their thoughts (on the basis of anonymy) regardg the most wispread assumptns, stereotyp, and prumptns about Moldova’s LGBT people. I’ve asked my homophobic fay members to image that one of their relativ were gay, or perhaps a favoure sger.

When homophob see that heterosexuals support LGBT rights, they beg to unrstand the importance of what’s happeng. If such march weren’t held, the homophob would ntue believg that society had no problem acceptg LGBT people. But practice, the circumstanc and people I am surround by do not perm some reason, the majory of people believe that we’re pable of love, that homosexual relatnships are only about sex.

GAY CHIS, MOLDOVA – THE NOMADIC BOYS

Many even say that if were their cisn, given how harmon we are, they’d legalise gay marriage and even allow to brg up children. Even if they’re married wh kids, they’re aaid that they’ll be associated wh gay people — and public, they make fun of , jt like everybody else.

I’m sure that if one day, all Moldova’s LGBT people told their relativ about themselv unison, then homophobia would disappear our untryOthers exclaim that nobody bothers LGBT people here, askg why we need march and “some kd of special rights”. At some pot I stopped forcg myself to fall love wh general, I’m sure that if one day, all Moldova’s LGBT people told their relativ about themselv unison, then homophobia would disappear our untry.

” Valy, 32, web signer I grew up an Orthodox Christian fay wh strong homophobic views. When I ask my acquatanc om the LGBT muny, they tell me that their parents and lleagu don’t even spect their people who oppose LGBT march or the very existence of gay and lbian people don’t spect that their brothers, sisters, parents or children are LGBT. Sometim when I see a homophobic ment on Facebook, I check out the thor’s profile — I often see around a dozen people their iends list who I know to be LGBT.

MOLDOVA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN JULY 2023

Gay people n only live eely and happily a handful of untri, and many more our liv are nsired crimal. We hold march so that one day, homosexualy is seen as somethg normal, jt like heterosexualy.

And nobody’s worried that all children are at risk of beg left-hand if there’s one left-hand kid the ’s no guarantee that your children won’t be gay. Perhaps march n help people overe this unnatural fear of their own children, and they n learn to see them as parents are still aaid to send children to schools wh openly gay teachers. Homosexualy isn’t nnected to Party of Socialists has proposed a bill to ban “gay propaganda” [thought to be the reason why people are gay].

TOP GAY DTATNS: MOLDOVA

It’s a method which worked Nazi Germany — and when members of the opposn, Jews, gays and lbians were sent to ncentratn mps, many people Germany saw that as que alright, sce they intified the groups the untry’s most prsg problem. There’s a term I prefer much more Romanian — homoafectiv, that is to say, “homo-oriented” or “homo-leang”. After hearg my story, some might say that “if they hate here so much, let them go to their beloved ‘Gayrope!

SOLDIER ‘ABED FOR BEG GAY’ TOLD TO PROVI ‘TIMATE PICTUR’ TO ‘PROVE’ HIS SEXUALY

I know how I n help my fellow LGBT people here, and my fellow Moldovans general, bee I don’t work only on LGBT, 18, stuntWhout LGBT march, society would ntue to believe that only two or three gay people live the untry. But upon seeg jt how eply my fay felt that homosexualy was a vice, I didn’t know how to live wh the tth. In orr not to raise spicns, I try to appear stereotypilly masculeWhat would what my grandfather would have said if he knew that two of his grandsons were gay?

Many gay people fear losg their jobs due to their sexual, ’s irrelevant whether your teacher is gay or not. After some time, I found out that he was gay himself, and unrstood that I wasn’t the only one aaid of openg up to others. The people fend their homophobic posn whout even unrstandg that they are nyg me my rights.

I don’t really unrstand why my sexual orientatn should worry for “gog back to Gayrope”, Moldova is my home, and I don’t want to leave.

GLOBALGAYZ: THE BOOK

A "rabow map and x" rankg protectns for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people across Europe has creded Moldova wh makg the most progrs to improve legal standards over the past year. One of Moldova's most proment LGBT-rights activists, GenrDoc-M rmatn center director Angela Frolov, who ntributed to the study by ILGA-Europe, the regnal sectn of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex (LGBTI) Associatn, said she was pleased by the "leap. Several tim the subsequent , Moldova's pro-Rsian Communists and Socialists have sought to pass laws targetg homosexual "propaganda.

Gay Marriage⚭✖ Unregnized, only same-sex marriage officialCensorship✔ No censorshipChangg Genr✖ Legal, but requir surgeryNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedEmployment Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyHog Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyMilary✖ Lbians, gays, bisexuals permted, transgenr people bannedDonatg Blood✖ Banned (fe ferral)Conversn Therapy✖ Not banned. Suggt Public Opn DataPublic OpnPerceptns of lol area as a "good place" for gay and lbian people? By The Numbers77% of Orthodox Christians support the Church's posn on refg to perform same-sex marriagHistoryHomosexual activy Moldova?

Servg openly ary Moldova is lbians, gays, bisexuals permted, transgenr people banned.

UN MOLDOVA JOT STATEMENT ON LGBTQI+ (LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER & TERSEX PEOPLE) RIGHTS

Lbians, gays, bisexuals permted, transgenr people banned Gays and lbians allowed to serve, transgenrs unfortunately aren’t Blood donatns by MSMs Moldova? In the Autonomo Terrorial Un of Gagzia, southern Moldova, the People’s Assembly, the regn’s legislative body, passed an anti-gay law, “On the prohibn of propaganda of non-tradnal relatns, LGBT, the terrory of ATU Gagzia”.

Orthodox prits wh believers take part a prott agast a rally anized by the LGBT (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr) muny ont of Stefan cel Mare monument Chis, Moldova, 19 May 2019. Members of the LGBT (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr) muny, protected by rt police, take part a march held to promote human rights and equaly Chis, Moldova, 19 May 2019. Moldovan police creased safety measur for the short LGBT march after threats of possible vlence were reported agast the Gay Pri event.

OF ALL PLAC, IS MOLDOVA LEADG ON GAY RIGHTS?

Orthodox believers and a prit take part a prott agast a rally anized by the LGBT (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr) muny, durg their march for human rights and equaly Chis, Moldova, 19 May 2019. Durg the last ten years GenrDoc-M has registered 15 s of gay murr bee of homophobia and numero s of vlence, discrimatn and tolerant attu to LGBT muny.

From 2 to 4 May Chis the send Lbian and Gay Pri “Rabow over the Dnister – 2003” took place.

MOLDOVA’S GAY RIGHTS STANCE UNRM ITS EU ASPIRATNS

All the activi were aimed to promote tolerance towards LGBT muny, to give to society rmatn about different aspects of homosexualy, and to make the LGBT muny more “visible” Moldovan society.

Durg Pri the followg activi took place: an art and photo exhibn where works of Moldovan paters and photographers were prented, an teractive theatric fom on discrimatn, a regnn ceremony «In Memoriam of the Victims of Homophobia», a “Safer Sex Party”, and a trag for “HIV/AIDS preventn the LGBT muny” wh participatn by Vrel Calist who is the ma specialist om the AIDS Center Etera Rota and who is also the Director of the Dermatovenereal Dispanser.

Natalia Barbu also supported gays and lbians the stggle for their rights: “They are the same people as others.

GAY MOLDOVA

Nowadays Pris or Love Paras take place hundreds of ci all over the world and get together lns of people: gays, lbians and all other terted people. Then, the ceremonial layg of the flowers at the lake occurred, which memoriated those lost due to the homophobia this untry. It was tertg to hear about Swen’s very progrsive gay marriage law, which allows for gay marriage of one Swedish cizen to a non-cizen, as long as the relatnship is ed bonafi.

I gave a speech about the Gay Movement New York and Molly om the USA, gave an tertg one on her experienc. Towards the end, Fireworks went off, and the pri torch was passed, signalg the passg of Gay Pri om one generatn to another.

GAY CHIS, MOLDOVA – THE NOMADIC BOYS

Although registered as an NGO on general genr issu, to avoid eventual nflicts wh the thori, remas the only stutn to protect gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr rights Moldova.

“Mirror” – cultural and tnal gay and lbian magaze, distributed through the natnal newspaper distributn systems.

MOLDOVA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN JULY 2023

“Social and Psychologil Aspects of Homosexualy”, “Homosexualy and Human Rights” – two ternatnal semars held Chis December 1999 and Febary 2000 wh participatn of experts and members of siar anisatns om Romania, Rsia, Ukrae. “Essential Aspects of Homosexualy” – five workshops for journalism/psychology stunts, NGO lears, high school teachers and LGBT muny. GenrDoc-M is nstantly lobbyg different European stutns like the Council of Europe, European Parliament, OSCE, raisg their awarens on discrimatn and abe of gay and lbian rights Moldova.

The two most known s GenrDoc-M has brought to the attentn of European muny were the spensn of gay and lbian meetg by the police on September 23rd 2000 and hate speech, ma by Moldovan parliamentarian and PACE member Vlad Cubreav. “Moldovan Gay and Lbian Empowerment” – twng project between COC Netherlands and GenrDoc-M, was lnched October 2001. Wh the project many semars and bat will be held, the magaze “Mirror” and three books will be published, assistance and social servic will be provid to the gay and lbian muny.

TOP GAY DTATNS: MOLDOVA

In the end of April 2002 GenrDoc-M wh support of RFSL (Swen) has anized the First Moldovan Gay and Lbian Pri 2002. It clud art exhibn, movie ftival, prentatn of gay anthology, ternatnal nference (wh participatn of openly gay prit Ulf Lidman, openly gay parliamentarian Tasso Stafilidis and Stig Ake Petersson (all om Swen), Dennis van r Vr (the Netherlands) as well as guts om Romania and Ukrae).

SOLDIER ‘ABED FOR BEG GAY’ TOLD TO PROVI ‘TIMATE PICTUR’ TO ‘PROVE’ HIS SEXUALY

Publitn of three leaflets: “Safer Sex for Gays”, “Safer Sex for Women”, “Negotiatg Safer Sex”. When to gay statns, let’s jt say gay Chis isn’t one that’s gog to be at the top of LGBTQ travellers’ bucket list. In this gay gui to Chis, we’ve set out the bt gay-iendly hotels to stay, gay iendly plac to go out, rtrants, thgs to do and more.

Acrdg to a survey, only 2% of Moldovans would wele havg a gay or lbian as a fay member, lleague or iend.

GLOBALGAYZ: THE BOOK

Acrdg to GenrDoc, an NGO that protects the right of the LGBT muny Moldova, there are about 90, 000 homosexuals Moldova, but gays and lbians ntue to hi their sexual inty bee of prejudice and fear of beg exclud om society.

UN MOLDOVA JOT STATEMENT ON LGBTQI+ (LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER & TERSEX PEOPLE) RIGHTS

Acrdg to a natnal survey published 2011 “reprentativ of the gay and lbian muny are accepted as neighbors only by 14% of rponnts, as work lleagu by 13%, as iends by 10%, and as a future members of the fay by 4%”, brgg the tegrated acceptance ditor to a bare 2%” was one of the reasons why the Moldovan Government stepped back and whdrew s own draft anti-discrimatn law after went before Parliament approval last March.

OF ALL PLAC, IS MOLDOVA LEADG ON GAY RIGHTS?

Intertgly, the on who protted and prsured Moldovan learship to take the draft off the table most volly were Orthodox relig groups who believe such a law would lim the eedom of speech of nservative Moldovans exprsg homophobic views. Even if Moldova has had 20 years of mocracy, gays still have to keep silent to avoid sndals.

MOLDOVA’S GAY RIGHTS STANCE UNRM ITS EU ASPIRATNS

”This is not the first time that homosexuals have plaed about the qualy of re om doctors. GenrDoc, a non-ernmental anizatn which advot for LGBT rights Moldova, argu that Moldovan society is not ready to rpect the terts of the gay and lbian muny or to unrstand their needs.

She says that such suatns occur bee Moldovan society knows very ltle about homosexualy. “Most often, doctors are totally ignorant when to gays and lbians; moreover, they lack profsnal skills.

That is why is much easier to keep one's homosexual orientatn secret when nsultg a gynelogist. In so many years of work, no one has plaed about different treatment towards homosexuals than towards other patients. Ala Glavan agre that the doctor should have abstaed om exprsg her opn about homosexualy and tried to rrect such reactns by mentng that her stutn is open to homosexuals, Roma, HIV-posive patients, or any other mori om prefer private medil stutnsOne doctor who homosexuals Chişău tst is Gala L whose Health Center “Neova” has an LGBT-iendly reputatn.