Gay Holidays Bulgaria | Two Bad Tourists

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• GAY RIGHTS

GAY RIGHTS

Censorship✔ No censorshipNon-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✔ Legal wh rtrictnsConversn Therapy✖ Not banned.

Bulgaria SurveysOrthodox Christian Support for Church's Posn of Refg to Perform Same-Sex MarriageHistoryHomosexual activy Bulgaria? Current statSce May 1, 1968Legal Sce 1968, homosexual activy Bulgaria had been legalIllegal (imprisonment as punishment)Up to 3 years imprisonmentIllegal (imprisonment as punishment)At least 6 months imprisonmentSame-sex marriage Bulgaria? Current statSce Aug 1, 2004Lbians, gays, bisexuals permted, transgenr people banned Bisexuals, gays and lbians allowed transgenrs unknownBlood donatns by MSMs Bulgaria?

In realy, back 1966 Bulgaria was amongst the first untri to crimalise homosexualy – not jt the Eastern Bloc, but Europe as a whole. In Stal’s Soviet Unn such people were acced of belongg to the bourgeoisie, and homosexual relatns between men, particular, were punished wh up to five years of prison and hard labour.

The 1963 march led to a group trial year later of 26 men for practicg homosexualy, many of whom were high profile dividuals, cludg actor Gei Partsalev, pop sger E Dimrov and his moured partner, songwrer Vasil Andreev, poet and translator Borislav Geiev, and other actors, film directors, and dancers – all of whom were the public eye.

The plete failure of the experiment eventually led to sexologist Todor Bostandzhiev clarg homosexualy an “curable mental illns” and for this reason, he argued, should not be punished as harshly as was then outled the law. In 1968, Bostandzhiev, alongsi psychologists Nikola Shipkovenski, Emanuil Sharankov, and Kosta Zaimov, prepared a paper for the BCP Central Commtee llg for homosexualy to be fully legalised, argug that, “Sexual terurse between adults, by mutual nsent and unr ndns which do not vlate public moraly, should not be prohibed or prosecuted.

On May 1, 1968, more than a year before the Stonewall Rts took place New York Cy, the penal Bulgaria was revised, and homosexualy beme fully legal.