Refworld | Moldova: The suatn regardg gay men and lbians, cludg the laws on homosexualy, the treatment of gay men and lbians, protectn offered by the State and the existence of support servic (2008 - June 2010)

Contents:

• MOLDOVAN ACTIVISTS ACCE LAWMAKERS OF SECRETLY ADOPTG 'GAY-PROPAGANDA' LAW
• MOLDOVA: THE SUATN REGARDG GAY MEN AND LBIANS, CLUDG THE LAWS ON HOMOSEXUALY, THE TREATMENT OF GAY MEN AND LBIANS, PROTECTN OFFERED BY THE STATE AND THE EXISTENCE OF SUPPORT SERVIC (2008 - JUNE 2010)
• OF ALL PLAC, IS MOLDOVA LEADG ON GAY RIGHTS?
• MOLDOVA’S GAY RIGHTS STANCE UNRM ITS EU ASPIRATNS
• SOLDIER ‘ABED FOR BEG GAY’ TOLD TO PROVI ‘TIMATE PICTUR’ TO ‘PROVE’ HIS SEXUALY
• MOLDOVAN ACTIVISTS ACCE LAWMAKERS OF SECRETLY ADOPTG 'GAY-PROPAGANDA' LAW
• MOLDOVA: THE SUATN REGARDG GAY MEN AND LBIANS, CLUDG THE LAWS ON HOMOSEXUALY, THE TREATMENT OF GAY MEN AND LBIANS, PROTECTN OFFERED BY THE STATE AND THE EXISTENCE OF SUPPORT SERVIC (2008 - JUNE 2010)
• OF ALL PLAC, IS MOLDOVA LEADG ON GAY RIGHTS?
• MOLDOVA’S GAY RIGHTS STANCE UNRM ITS EU ASPIRATNS
• SOLDIER ‘ABED FOR BEG GAY’ TOLD TO PROVI ‘TIMATE PICTUR’ TO ‘PROVE’ HIS SEXUALY

MOLDOVAN ACTIVISTS ACCE LAWMAKERS OF SECRETLY ADOPTG 'GAY-PROPAGANDA' LAW

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.

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. By The Numbers77% of Orthodox Christians support the Church's posn on refg to perform same-sex marriagHistoryHomosexual activy Moldova? Lbians, gays, bisexuals permted, transgenr people banned Gays and lbians allowed to serve, transgenrs unfortunately aren’t Blood donatns by MSMs Moldova?

MOLDOVA: THE SUATN REGARDG GAY MEN AND LBIANS, CLUDG THE LAWS ON HOMOSEXUALY, THE TREATMENT OF GAY MEN AND LBIANS, PROTECTN OFFERED BY THE STATE AND THE EXISTENCE OF SUPPORT SERVIC (2008 - JUNE 2010)

In 2012, together wh Rsia, was ranked the lowt of 49 European untri terms of rights for the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) muny. Activists say they hope the small-sle march sends a posive signal to people who still remember the vic crackdown on a cy pri event 2008, when a b rryg LGBT activists was attacked by hundreds of antigay protters as police stood by and watched.

OF ALL PLAC, IS MOLDOVA LEADG ON GAY RIGHTS?

LGBT rights have stggled to fd their place on human-rights agendas the former Soviet Unn, where homosexualy and genr nonnformy, crimalized unr munism, still rry a ep social stigma.

MOLDOVA’S GAY RIGHTS STANCE UNRM ITS EU ASPIRATNS

This clus the lnch of Egali, an onle vio project which ordary Moldovans, both gay and straight, speak ankly to the mera about their g-of-age challeng. The most progrs Moldova is seen as a sharp ntrast to velopments neighborg Rsia and Ukrae, where thori are prsg a range of measur -- cludg a ban on so-lled homosexual "propaganda" -- seen as a massive setback for the LGBT rights movement.

"[This is] pecially [te] the ex-Soviet untri, where homosexualy was always seen as a Wtern viance, and where [LGBT rights] are now seen as somethg imposed by the European Unn.

Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people Moldova face legal and social challeng and discrimatn not experienced by non-LGBT rints. 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. 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.

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

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.

MOLDOVAN ACTIVISTS ACCE LAWMAKERS OF SECRETLY ADOPTG 'GAY-PROPAGANDA' LAW

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.

Acrdg to a rearcher wh the Centre for the Study of Polil Life (Centre d'étu la vie polique, CEVIPOL) at the Free Universy of Bssels (Universé libre Bxell, ULB), GenrDoc-M, a non-ernmental anizatn (NGO) that advot for the rights of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenred (LGBT) persons, wants the ernment to tablish [translatn] "a clearer and more clive law" for the LGBT muny (Julien May 2009, Sec. An article published the 6 May 2010 edn of the Bay Area Reporter (BAR), a San Francis weekly newspaper aimed at the LGBT muny, reports that 2009 the print of the Swedish Feratn for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Rights (Riksförbunt för homosexuellas, bisexuellas och transpersoners rättigheter, RFSL), was reportedly taken to a police statn after admtg to police officers that he was gay and that he had e to Chis for the Gay Pri Para.

MOLDOVA: THE SUATN REGARDG GAY MEN AND LBIANS, CLUDG THE LAWS ON HOMOSEXUALY, THE TREATMENT OF GAY MEN AND LBIANS, PROTECTN OFFERED BY THE STATE AND THE EXISTENCE OF SUPPORT SERVIC (2008 - JUNE 2010)

In May 2008, the Speaker of the Moldovan Parliament spoke out agast public homosexual events, sayg that they [translatn] "are not possible Moldova" (Julien May 2009, Sec. He also suggted that if one of the ndns for accsn to the European Unn (EU) clud legalizg gay pri paras, Moldova may not "play along" (ibid. Country Reports on Human Rights Practic for 2009, published by the Uned Stat (US) Department of State, dit that after the Deputy Speaker of the Moldovan Parliament exprsed his opposn to "public events" of homosexual behavur, he later said a speech to Parliament that "cizens should rpect personal privacy and the eedom to choose sexual orientatn" (US 11 Mar.

Var sourc nsulted by the Rearch Directorate state that monstratns of gay pri Moldova have been banned on several ocsns sce 2005 (BAR 6 May 2010; Council of Europe 23 Jan. Another monstratn planned for 11 May 2008 Chis support of the anti-discrimatn legislatn was banned by thori for the same reasons (AI 2009; Swissgay 15 May 2008; Council of Europe 23 Jan. Acrdg to the GenrDoc-M webse, there is a group of gay men and lbians offerg var servic at no st Balti, specifilly psychologil and medil assistance, as well as social servic (GenrDoc-M n.

OF ALL PLAC, IS MOLDOVA LEADG ON GAY RIGHTS?

"Défaillance l'Etat dro en Moldova, où l'on a laissé une foule en lère empêcher la maniftatn légale personn lbienn, gays, bisexuell et transsexuell (LGBT). Inter s, cludg: Agence France-Prse (AFP), Canada - Department of Foreign Affairs and Internatnal Tra (DFAIT), Edutn Internatnal (EI),, Euro-Mederranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN), Fédératn ternatnale s ligu s dros l'homme (FIDH), France gaie et lbienne, Gay Normandie, Gay Republic Daily, Gay Rights Info (GRI), Gay Tim, Génératn gay, Genre en actn, Human Rights Watch, Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Internatnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn (IGLHRC), Internatnal Helski Feratn for Human Rights (IHF), La libre Belgique [Bssels], Moldova Instue for Human Rights (MIHR),, Rad France ternatnale (RFI), Uned Natns (UN) Human Rights Commtee, World News Connectn (WNC). 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.

MOLDOVA’S GAY RIGHTS STANCE UNRM ITS EU ASPIRATNS

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.

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

Moldova's 2002 Penal Co punish dividuals for discrimatn based on "race, genr, language, relign, polil and other beliefs, and natnal and social orig, " a legislative measure that uld be nsired favourable for gays and lbians (Gay Tim 20 July 2005).