LGBT activists Moldova are alarmed that lawmakers May stealthily adopted a "gay-propaganda" law siar to on passed Rsia and Lhuania. The Moldovan measure beme law on July 12, whout public discsn or even awarens.
Contents:
- GAY MOLDOVA
- MOLDOVA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN JULY 2023
- MOLDOVAN ACTIVISTS ACCE LAWMAKERS OF SECRETLY ADOPTG 'GAY-PROPAGANDA' LAW
- SOLDIER ‘ABED FOR BEG GAY’ TOLD TO PROVI ‘TIMATE PICTUR’ TO ‘PROVE’ HIS SEXUALY
- GLOBALGAYZ: THE BOOK
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
- A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
- DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
- GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
- GAY MOLDOVA
- MOLDOVA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN JULY 2023
- MOLDOVAN ACTIVISTS ACCE LAWMAKERS OF SECRETLY ADOPTG 'GAY-PROPAGANDA' LAW
- SOLDIER ‘ABED FOR BEG GAY’ TOLD TO PROVI ‘TIMATE PICTUR’ TO ‘PROVE’ HIS SEXUALY
- GLOBALGAYZ: THE BOOK
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
- A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
- DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
- GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
- GAY MOLDOVA
- MOLDOVA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN JULY 2023
- MOLDOVAN ACTIVISTS ACCE LAWMAKERS OF SECRETLY ADOPTG 'GAY-PROPAGANDA' LAW
- SOLDIER ‘ABED FOR BEG GAY’ TOLD TO PROVI ‘TIMATE PICTUR’ TO ‘PROVE’ HIS SEXUALY
- GLOBALGAYZ: THE BOOK
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
- A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
- DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
- GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
GAY MOLDOVA
LGBT activists Moldova are alarmed that lawmakers May stealthily adopted a "gay-propaganda" law siar to on passed Rsia and Lhuania. The Moldovan measure beme law on July 12, whout public discsn or even awarens. * moldova gay twitter *
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.
MOLDOVA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN JULY 2023
LGBT Rights Moldova: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * moldova gay twitter *
”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.
MOLDOVAN ACTIVISTS ACCE LAWMAKERS OF SECRETLY ADOPTG 'GAY-PROPAGANDA' LAW
A rerd number of out LGBTQ players make this year’s tournament a feast for gay fans. * moldova gay twitter *
Many people try, but still have difficulty unrstandg that ’s normal to be gay. 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. 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”.
SOLDIER ‘ABED FOR BEG GAY’ TOLD TO PROVI ‘TIMATE PICTUR’ TO ‘PROVE’ HIS SEXUALY
Maxen is the first ever male ach Amerin men's sports to e out as gay. * moldova gay twitter *
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. 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.
GLOBALGAYZ: THE BOOK
SiegedSec, a group of gay furry hackers, took their skills to US ernments June, breachg agenci across five stat and to release data. * moldova gay twitter *
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. 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! But even if we leave, other gay people will be born and grow up here Moldova. 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.
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
* moldova gay twitter *
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.
A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
LGBT Rights Moldova: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * moldova gay twitter *
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. 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. 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.
DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
A rerd number of out LGBTQ players make this year’s tournament a feast for gay fans. * moldova gay twitter *
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.
Chis, Moldova: The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ) muny Moldova is a diverse group. 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.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
Maxen is the first ever male ach Amerin men's sports to e out as gay. * moldova gay twitter *
From 2 to 4 May Chis the send Lbian and Gay Pri “Rabow over the Dnister – 2003” took place.
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.
GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
SiegedSec, a group of gay furry hackers, took their skills to US ernments June, breachg agenci across five stat and to release data. * moldova gay twitter *
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.
GAY MOLDOVA
LGBT activists Moldova are alarmed that lawmakers May stealthily adopted a "gay-propaganda" law siar to on passed Rsia and Lhuania. The Moldovan measure beme law on July 12, whout public discsn or even awarens. * moldova gay twitter *
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.
MOLDOVA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN JULY 2023
LGBT Rights Moldova: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * moldova gay twitter *
“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.
MOLDOVAN ACTIVISTS ACCE LAWMAKERS OF SECRETLY ADOPTG 'GAY-PROPAGANDA' LAW
A rerd number of out LGBTQ players make this year’s tournament a feast for gay fans. * moldova gay twitter *
In the end of April 2002 GenrDoc-M wh support of RFSL (Swen) has anized the First Moldovan Gay and Lbian Pri 2002. The event was anized for the gay and lbian muny and s supporters, gay iendly persons.
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
Maxen is the first ever male ach Amerin men's sports to e out as gay. * moldova gay twitter *
Publitn of three leaflets: “Safer Sex for Gays”, “Safer Sex for Women”, “Negotiatg Safer Sex”.
The separate monstratn, "Stop the Propagatn of Homosexualy" sported signs readg msag such as "It's not OK to be Gay". Moldova's Pri March was one of many anised across the globe this weekend followg Friday's Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia.
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CHISINAU -- In late May, the Moldovan lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) muny held a landmark tolerance ftival that was hailed as a step toward liberalizatn for the poor, nservative, former Soviet untry.
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
But jt three days after the ftival end beme known that lawmakers Chis passed a law that gay-rights advot say mirrors siar legislatn adopted Rsia and Lhuania. Although the measure do not mentn homosexualy explicly, activists say is "virtually intil" to laws passed Rsia and Lhuania.
"It was sponsored by jt three puti, who we know are strongly agast homosexuals and who have been fightg agast equal rights for the LGBT muny.
The March law, he noted, ntaed the same language about "any other relatns than those related to marriage or fay" that has alarmed gay-rights advot. Cbanu sisted he was not "spired" by the Rsian "gay-propaganda" law draftg the legislatn and said "pli wh all European standards and normative documents on eedom of exprsn. A former soldier Moldova claims he faced abe for beg gay, but has now been told to provi “timate pictur” to “prove” his sexualy.
A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
Shortly after gay 18-year-old Mar Pavlcu was nscripted to the army, he borrowed his superr’s phone to ll his boyiend. But Moldova, leavg mandatory ary service is illegal, and the gay teenager uld be charged wh sertn, a crime that rri a fe and a possible five-year prison sentence. But Pavlcu’s lawyer, Doa Ioana Straisteanu, said there is no precent for whether or not homophobic harassment would unt.
DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
However, the vtigatn found that “timidatn, huiatn and discrimatory actns regardg soldier Pavlcu on the grounds that he was homosexual were not found”. Backg the vtigatn’s fdg that there was no proof Pavlcu is gay, he told the non-discrimatn hearg: “In orr to make a rrect qualifitn and to start om that qualifitn whether this person is homosexual or not, first mt be proved that the person qutn, on the basis of a medil certifite, is ed homosexual.
“A simple oral statement [ma by the person ncerned] nnot be ed as the basis for this person’s homosexual orientatn. “The person n show that he is gay through pictur om his timate life that attt to this.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
Sce 1995, homosexualy between nsentg adults private has been legal Moldova. On 11th May 2008 the police and thori stood by as the Moldova Pri Para was prevented by homophobic crowds who surround and timidated Para participants by surroundg the Pri b.
For example, vilent homophobic statements are sually ma by policians and lbians and gays are routely discrimated agast.
GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
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The Republic of Moldova, a untry Eastern Europe landlocked between Ukrae and Romania, overturned s “gay propaganda” ban on Friday an effort to ga European Unn membership. God’s LGBT Children Ukrae, Rsia, Belas, and Moldova: Homosexualy is Not Sful, Demonic, or a Mental Illns.
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Bill which would see people who discrimate agast sexual mori at work face f or even jail pass send readg Moldova parliament Moldova has voted to impose f agast employers who discrimate agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr workers. The Alliance for European Integratn (AIE) is attemptg to pass an anti-discrimatn bill Moldova, where the Council the untry’s third cy, Balti, have adopted an ordance banng the “propagandisg” of homosexualy. Gay rights mpaigners have slammed the cy of Balti’s anti-gay law as ‘shameful’ The cisn by a cy Moldova to ban ‘homosexual propaganda’ has been brand ‘shameful’ by gay rights mpaigners.
Earlier this week a 27 year old gay man took his own life followg an cint of homophobic harrassment by the Moldovan police durg the day. 1 Moldova Pri 2009 5/09 2 Ensurg eedom of assembly for LGBT people Moldova and Ukrae 4/10 3 A gay mted suici after talkg to police 12/10 4 Rights Defenr Conmns Vis By U.
Antigay Activist 3/11 5 Homophobe Stt Lively Advot for Anti-gay Legislatn 3/11 6 Папа Римский и президенты США и Ирана… Read more ». 1 Moldovan ernment to put legislatn place for sexual mori 2/05 2 Moldovan Authori Ban Gay Rally Outsi Parliament 5/05 3 GenrDoc-M announc Executive Director Post vancy 5/05 4 Authori Deny the Right for Peaceful Maniftatn of LGBT Organizatn 5/06 5 Court Declar Illegal the Refal to Authorize a Public Maniftatn 6/05 6 Discrimatn… Read more ». 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.
MOLDOVA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN JULY 2023
Public OpnRecent public opn surveys Moldova have poted to a persistence of extremely homophobic attus, g ep ncern. Moldova SurveysOrthodox Christian Support for Church's Posn of Refg to Perform Same-Sex MarriageHistoryHomosexual activy Moldova? 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? Last Febary, Maxen nnected wh lebacker Carl Nassib, who beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay 2021, as he navigated a path forward.
Last time at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the Netherlands lay claim to the honor of beg the team wh the most out LGBTQ players, but this year Atralia boasts 10 out players and overtak them for the tle of Gayt Team 2k23. Ireland’s historic entry to the tournament marks another triumph for out midfielr Sead Farrelly, whose natnal team but and 2023 return to the NWSL e more than six years after retirg om soccer the wake of systemic homophobic and sexual abe wh the league, which the Athletic first reported on 2021. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.
MOLDOVAN ACTIVISTS ACCE LAWMAKERS OF SECRETLY ADOPTG 'GAY-PROPAGANDA' LAW
“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them, ” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny. “Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self, ” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh.
SOLDIER ‘ABED FOR BEG GAY’ TOLD TO PROVI ‘TIMATE PICTUR’ TO ‘PROVE’ HIS SEXUALY
He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry. The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail. Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water.
“Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.
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For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails, ” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns, ” Roth said.
Of urse, other drks e the word “gay, ” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. Lol NewsMIAMI – The diplomatic ti between the Uned Stat and Jamai uld soon be are reports that Jamai is refg to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat.
The assistant strength and ndng ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars has bee the first male ach ever the NFL -- or Amerin men's pro sports altogether -- to publicly e out as gay.
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola. "We are also actually gay furri, I've seen untls people doubt that aspect of our group. 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.
A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
”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. Many people try, but still have difficulty unrstandg that ’s normal to be gay.
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.
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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.
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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. 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].
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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! But even if we leave, other gay people will be born and grow up here Moldova.