Albania be third European untry to ban gay ‘nversn therapy’

Contents:

• GUíA GAY ALBANIA PARA PERSONAS LGTB+
• BEG GAY ALBANIA: ‘KNOWG YOUR WORTH MAK EASIER’
• GAY LIFE ALBANIA
• ORGULLO GAY EN TIRANA: SAFIANDO AL “MACHO” ALBANéS
• GUíA GAY TIRANA
• DIAR VICE: KG JET / SER GAY EN ALBANIA
• BARR GAY EN ALBANIA
• ALBANIA GAY TRAVEL
• GAY LIFE ALBANIA IS DETERMED AND COURAGEO; AN INTERVIEW TIRANA
• GAYLIFE ALBANIA - ALBANIA FOM
• AS DIFICULDAS SER GAY NA ALBâNIA
• ALBANIA BE THIRD EUROPEAN UNTRY TO BAN GAY ‘NVERSN THERAPY’
• CóMO SABER SI ER GAY

GUíA GAY ALBANIA PARA PERSONAS LGTB+

Con un paisaje repleto playas arena blan, stillos cuento hadas y una historia tan apasnante o una rnión "Mujer la sa real", ¿no extrañar que Albania se té nvirtiendo en una visa obligada para los viajeros homosexual? La mayoría los alban que nocimos nos parecieron muy amabl y disputos a hacernos sentir bienvenidos o pareja homosexual, sobre todo las generacn más jóven.

Dcubrimos que un gran número gays alban siguen llevando una doble vida muy oculta: se san para placer a s faias mientras juegan n otros chis.

BEG GAY ALBANIA: ‘KNOWG YOUR WORTH MAK EASIER’

No tamos diciendo que vuelvas a meterte en el armar y que ev publir cualquier sa en t res social o harías, por ejemplo, en un viaje gay al Líbano, pero vigila n las PDA.

Cuando se trata utilizar Grdr y otras aplicn cas gay, ten en cuenta que la mayoría los chis no podrán ser anfrn, así que mejor opta por un hotel que perma pasar la noche (o mejor, rerva un Airbnb).

GAY LIFE ALBANIA

Macedonia l Norte, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzea, Kosovo y, por suputo, Albania: nocerás bien los Baln cuando term te fabuloso rerrido gay...

ORGULLO GAY EN TIRANA: SAFIANDO AL “MACHO” ALBANéS

En Tirana hay algunos lol heterosexual gay iendly popular entre el públi LGBTQ, o Rad Bar, Bunker1944 Lounge y la diste la azotea Tunél Terrace. Stg a rner of a “safe” place Tirana, this is one of the few spac where they feel ee to talk about their sexual orientatn and the stggle of beg accepted for who they * (20), who is Albanian and gay, and Na* (22), a lbian woman om Italy, both live Tirana.

GUíA GAY TIRANA

They share wh Ex News their challengg journey to self-acceptance and the hope that one day LGBTIQ rights will be rpected around the realized he was gay when he was 14. “But at that pot I was still lyg to myself, nvcg myself I liked girls, when actually I had always been attracted to boys, ” he he was about 15, he fally accepted that he was gay and a few years later, at around 17-18, he fally felt fortable wh , beg more open to people who might ask. However, growg up a untry where beg gay is still taboo, John’s journey to self-acceptance was a difficult says that his fay has been through a lot and for years he did not talk to his father, and he has never been able to e out to him.

DIAR VICE: KG JET / SER GAY EN ALBANIA

They still don’t have any notn of what beg gay actually means and how to accept people like me, ” he a homophobic society, John believ his mother lov him as her son, but he don’t thk she lik him as an dividual.

BARR GAY EN ALBANIA

I don’t thk she has accepted yet, ” he told Ex News that beg gay Tirana means beg surround by homophobia, “but I thk if you know your worth, you will get through a lot easier.

ALBANIA GAY TRAVEL

“Homophobia ns wild, ” she she was 17, Na cid to talk openly about her inty wh her childhood bt iend, scribg the moment as a ccial pot her life. “My stepmother kept tellg me thgs like ‘be normal for one send, ’ ‘you are disgtg’, ‘you want to be different, you’re not different so jt be normal, ’ so I had to leave, ” Na though her father realized she was gay and told her he was fe wh that, she cid to ny . I’ve heard people at my office say ‘she is gay, don’t let her hug you, '” she pots out that bee of the stigma she has faced both Italy and Albania, she talks openly about beg gay only to other gay people or alli.

GAY LIFE ALBANIA IS DETERMED AND COURAGEO; AN INTERVIEW TIRANA

El 20 enero 1995, tras la prión ternacnal l Consejo Europa y ILGA Europe (Asociación Internacnal Gays y Lbianas), el Parlamento albanés spenalizó las relacn nsentidas entre personas l mismo sexo.

En jun 2021, la perdista Blerta Tafani hizo varias claracn homófobas en televisión, n afirmacn o: «Es una gran sgracia [que una persona LGBTIQ+] dé a luz a un niño»; “las personas LGBTI quieren elimar la palabra madre”; «la vida n dos padr no funcna, la vida n una faia gay se aba”. Current issu ncerng human rights Albania clu domtic vlence, isolated s of torture, and police btaly, the general ndn of prisons, human and sex traffickg and gay rights.

GAYLIFE ALBANIA - ALBANIA FOM

(1) A gay traveler Albania posted this ment on the Lonely Pla Gay Thorn Tree fom: “Albania is overwhelmgly Islam so beg gay is not exactly an open and accepted thg. (2) Acrdg to Gay Pri Inx, Albania a gay Pri march is legal, but not socially possible bee Albanian society is very tolerant of homosexualy. (3) On the webse Gays Whout Borrs this report was posted 2007 but is still valid 2012: ‘Homosexuals Face Ltle Choice But to Leave Albania or Put Up Wh Deep-rooted Homophobia’.

AS DIFICULDAS SER GAY NA ALBâNIA

Repeated s the past have tght the homosexual muny that, a tradnal society like Albania, gog public wh their sexual orientatn means losg their jobs, riskg threats and possible rejectn by their fai. Though the Albanian Parliament legalized homosexual relatnships 1995, more than a later, gays and lbians are still heavily stigmatized, and a majory of them are choosg to leave, amidst fears that if their sexual orientatn is disvered, their safety will be endangered. [In Febary 2010, the Parliament of Albania unanimoly approved an all clive anti-discrimatn law which bans discrimatn on the grounds of var characteristics, cludg sexual orientatn and genr inty… “But attus toward homosexualy have not changed much, and they have to protect themselv.

ALBANIA BE THIRD EUROPEAN UNTRY TO BAN GAY ‘NVERSN THERAPY’

In the past the majory of homosexuals leavg the untry tend to pass through the illegal smugglg rout that were such a faiar feature of the Balkans durg the 1990s. There are gay and lbian clubs all over the world, even Arab untri which are historilly more tradnal than ours, and yet here we live fear” says S. Acrdg to AHRG, Albanian homosexuals face “tolerance, physil and psychologil vlence – often om the police – and discrimatn the workplace.

CóMO SABER SI ER GAY

Legal actn: In December 2010, the Deputy Commissn for Labour, Social Affairs and Health, Tran Shehu, clared that “homosexualy should be treated by medil staff as hormonal disorr, as well as psychologil”. Shehu should avoid discrimatory remarks the future, which e an atmosphere of tensn and uniendls towards the LGBT [Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr] muny Albania. Gay-Straight Alliance Agast Discrimatn is an Albanian non-ernmental anizatn that envisns a ee, open and equal Albanian society that embrac diversy and is clive of people of all sexual orientatns and genr inti.