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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.

GAY CHIS, MOLDOVA – THE NOMADIC BOYS

”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.

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.

MOLDOVA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN JULY 2023

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”.

TOP GAY DTATNS: MOLDOVA

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.

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

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.

GLOBALGAYZ: THE BOOK

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].

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.

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

There’s a term I prefer much more Romanian — homoafectiv, that is to say, “homo-oriented” or “homo-leang”.

OF ALL PLAC, IS MOLDOVA LEADG ON GAY RIGHTS?

After hearg my story, some might say that “if they hate here so much, let them go to their beloved ‘Gayrope!

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.

MOLDOVA’S GAY RIGHTS STANCE UNRM ITS EU ASPIRATNS

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.

GAY MOLDOVA

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. 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.

GAY CHIS, MOLDOVA – THE NOMADIC BOYS

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?

MOLDOVA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN JULY 2023

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

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.

TOP GAY DTATNS: MOLDOVA

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.

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

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.

GLOBALGAYZ: THE BOOK

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.

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.

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

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. 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.

“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.

OF ALL PLAC, IS MOLDOVA LEADG ON GAY RIGHTS?

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. 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).

MOLDOVA’S GAY RIGHTS STANCE UNRM ITS EU ASPIRATNS

Publitn of three leaflets: “Safer Sex for Gays”, “Safer Sex for Women”, “Negotiatg Safer Sex”.