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• ROMANIAN ORTHODOX 'PRITS' STRIP OFF FOR GAY LENDAR THEY SAY WILL BRG 'HOPE, JOY AND FORT'
• DE CE ROMâNIA ARE NEVOIE LEGALIZAREA CăSăTORIILOR GAY, DIFERENT CE ZIC EXTREMIșTII
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• MISS MANNERS: NOSY WOMEN AT RETIREMENT MUNY ASK RINT ‘ARE YOU GAY?’ DURG DNER
• BETIFUL GAY ROMANIA: SIGHISOARA, CRAVA, BUCHART, BRASOV, BRAN & PEL STL, AND MUCH MORE
• GAY ROMANIA
• GAY LIFE ROMANIA
• GAY BUCHART
• GAY DICTNARY ROMANIAN
• ORTHODOX 'PRITS' STRIP OFF FOR GAY LENDAR THEY SAY WILL BRG 'HOPE, JOY AND FORT'

ROMANIAN ORTHODOX 'PRITS' STRIP OFF FOR GAY LENDAR THEY SAY WILL BRG 'HOPE, JOY AND FORT'

Romanian Orthodox 2014 lendar creators say pays tribute to gay marriageShots clu nu mols readg bible and posg on bed clutchg some rosary beads Updated: 07:53 BST, 8 January 2014 Advertisement A new lendar created by Romanian Orthodox Christians featurg mcular male mols steamy pos has been men behd the Romanian Orthodox 2014 lendar say pays tribute to gay marriage, which, they say, 'is the news all around the world and very timely'.

The mols are gay-iendly members 'of the Orthodox Church' who have chosen to strip down for the sexy shoot 'bee they believe - like - eedom of speech, tolerance, equaly and human rights.

The men behd the Romanian Orthodox 2014 lendar say pays tribute to gay marriage, which, they say, 'is the news all around the world and very timely' 'A great gift for people who like illtratns, artwork, artistic photography, and ntroversial art their r, ' say the makers of the lendar The creative group was tablished 2012 and is the brachild of a group posed mostly of Orthodox eastern Europeans of the former munist regn Wrg on their webse they say their primary goal is to 'monstrate that Orthodox believers do not all f the backward, hibound stereotype portrayed the prs but rather are regular people wh passns, preferenc, terts and sir. 'At the same time, the lendar tak an ironic approach to the Orthodox Church self, which recent years has baeen embroiled rptn sndals, artist reprsn, gay sex ver-ups, outrageo behavr and homophobia, ' they add.

DE CE ROMâNIA ARE NEVOIE LEGALIZAREA CăSăTORIILOR GAY, DIFERENT CE ZIC EXTREMIșTII

Wh bold lors, homoerotic unrton, OC’s artwork has drawn parisons to Amerin photographer David LaChapelle and French artists Pierre & ssns and stg took place the predomantly Orthodox area of Eastern Europe. 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. “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.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

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.”.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

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.

În 2018, referendumul anti-gay anizat Coaliția pent Faie a pit după ce a ss la vot doar puț pte 20% d oamenii cu drept vot, și avut două zile la dispoziție să modifice Constuția. Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen cid on Thursday to e out publicly as gay hop of livg his life whout fear and to spire others.

MISS MANNERS: NOSY WOMEN AT RETIREMENT MUNY ASK RINT ‘ARE YOU GAY?’ DURG DNER

Before jog Jacksonville’s achg staff, he was a strength ach for the football teams at Baylor and Febary 2022, Maxen reached out to NFL player Carl Nassib, who me out as gay 2021, to seek advice. From homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat.

While rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.

Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down. Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help. Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir suici.

BETIFUL GAY ROMANIA: SIGHISOARA, CRAVA, BUCHART, BRASOV, BRAN & PEL STL, AND MUCH MORE

Many also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.

Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St. González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn. Acpanied by their lawyer and a reprentative of the LBGT (lbian, bisexual, gay, and transgenr) advocy group Accept, the two men were naturally nervo, as same-sex partnerships are not regnized Romania.

A survey by the Romanian Instute for Evaluatn and Strategy done November-December shows that homophobia the untry is rampant: three-fourths of those polled say they don’t tst homosexuals, 59 percent wouldn’t accept a gay relative, and 52 percent wouldn’t be iends wh a homosexual.

GAY ROMANIA

Other policians said if Romania ever legalized same-sex unns, gay men would be able to adopt children. Victor Cbota: "I heard [the mail clerk] say ‘that homosexual’ is askg for his partner’s mail. A landmark lg by the European Court of Jtice June 2018 said untri uld not e the illegaly of same-sex marriage to stop an EU cizen om brgg their non-EU spoe to live wh them, which gave gay activists hope.

GAY LIFE ROMANIA

Church officials recently lled for a theater play wh gay them to be banned, claimg mocked relig feelgs and had a "liberately blasphemo" msage. Openly gay upl like activist Buhuceanu and Cbota, a genr and polil science stunt, are extremely unual Romania, where most LGBT upl keep their relatnship secret. "Their weddg ceremony took place jt before more than 15, 000 people gathered the Buchart to fend LGBTQ rights as lawmakers ph for the new law that would ban any discsn of homosexualy or genr inty virtually all public and private spac, cludg schools, workplac, the ter and other mass media.

Hungary, Romania's neighbor to the wt, adopted a siar law June 2021 prohibg the distributn of ntent emed to promote homosexualy and genr change to people unr 18 school sex tn, films or TV mercials. LGBTQ activists have said that both Romania's bill and Hungary's law are moled on anti-gay legislatn enacted by Rsia 2013. In the ntext of Rsia's attack on Ukrae, she said queer Rsians who have a male genr marker on their passports have also grown creasgly aaid of beg drafted to the army, both bee they don't want to take part the war and bee there's rampant transphobia and homophobia the Rsian army.

Senator Tammy Baldw, a Democrat and the untry's first openly gay senator, met wh lears om MozaiQ and ACCEPT to discs measur to rce discrimatn Romania. "Regardls of where someone liv the world, they serve the digny to live ee om discrimatn based on who they are and who they love, " she homosexualy has been crimalized Romania sce 2001, same-sex upl are neher allowed to marry nor enter to civil unns, and transgenr people are not able to change the genr on their IDs whout havg to pursue legal actn, as there is no admistrative procre to acplish this. 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 data.The stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola.

GAY BUCHART

"Uwu gay furri pwn you~ We'll be back aga soon to ntue our chaos and stctn!"Some news outlets, such as Them, raised ncerns that the group's actns uld expose random people to harm, not jt the targeted ernments. The 20th anniversary of the abolishment of Article 200, which thorized prison sentenc of up to five years for same-sex relatns, was one e for celebratn durg the gay pri para and ftival held Romania’s pal this month.

GAY DICTNARY ROMANIAN

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The last person jailed for beg gay Romania walked ee untry crimalized homosexualy three years after that, 2001, while reformg s laws to qualify for membership the European 20th anniversary of the abolishment of Article 200, which thorized prison sentenc of up to five years for same-sex relatns, was one e for celebratn durg the gay pri para and ftival held Romania’s pal this month. Some Romanians, fluenced by the Orthodox church, reject the growg social acceptance of lbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgenr people, pecially among young people.

A new law that took effect Hungary this summer banned the pictn of homosexualy films, books and other ntent tend for dienc unr 18. Dozens of muni Poland have passed largely symbolic anti-LGBT rolutns amid a nservative backlash that began more than two years Romania, lawmakers om two parti, cludg a junr partner the untry’s erng aln, plan to troduce legislatn next month that would ban so-lled “gay propaganda” schools. While there is growg support for LGBT rights among young Romanians, too many Romanians do not know anyone who openly intifi as gay, Ion-Rota said.

Betiful gay Romania: Sighisoara, Crava, Buchart, Brasov, Bran & Pel stl, and much moreStori > Experienc > Betiful gay Romania: Sighisoara, Crava, Buchart, Brasov, Bran & Pel stl, and much moreA mythil natn tellg of ancient Dacian sorcerers and blood-suckg prc broodg om Gothic stle turrets, Romania is one fairy-tale vatn not to be missed.

ORTHODOX 'PRITS' STRIP OFF FOR GAY LENDAR THEY SAY WILL BRG 'HOPE, JOY AND FORT'

BOOK WITH US Photo: Matei PteanuThe Romanian gay scene may still need a few years to tch up wh Wtern Europe on the matter of gay rights, but, even today, spe lastg Romanian Orthodox fluence, you’ll fd progrsive attus and a strong muny n be found, most notably the pal.

Most notably you’ll fd that lols outsi of the pal are somewhat socially nservative, wh negative attus towards gay and transgenr muni not unmon.

In terms of law, while the gay muny is protected by anti-discrimatn laws, same-sex upl are still unable to get married and fluence om the church means this is very unlikely to change the near rights anisatns Romania work tirelsly to advote for gay rights and social acceptance but neverthels Orthodox tns regardg ‘tradnal fay valu’ has ma difficult to shg off the notn of gay ‘immoraly’. Fd the most open gay scene Buchart, where tolerant and progrsive lols live mostly harmony wh the LGBT muny. Below that li the revelopment area – and one-time historic centre – which, though cidly shabby, matas populary among lols for s great number of bars and rtrants, cludg some gay bar Buchart hot spots.