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Contents:

• HANGG OUT GAY ALBANIA – THE NOMADIC BOYS
• CHAT GAY ALBANIA
• GAYLIFE ALBANIA - ALBANIA FOM
• GAY LIFE ALBANIA IS DETERMED AND COURAGEO; AN INTERVIEW TIRANA
• BEG GAY ALBANIA: ‘KNOWG YOUR WORTH MAK EASIER’
• ALBANIA GAY TRAVEL
• GAY LIFE ALBANIA
• ALBANIA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN JULY 2023
• ALBANIA BE THIRD EUROPEAN UNTRY TO BAN GAY ‘NVERSN THERAPY’
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• GAY LIFE KOSOVO
• GAY DATG BRONX
• ALBERTI POPAJ [HOST] FACTS- WIKI, AGE, QVC, FAY, MARRIED, HBAND, SPOE, GAY, SALARY
• BE A GAY AND AN ALBANIAN, DIFFICULT BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE
• GAY SHQIP - ALBANIAN GAY CHAT.
• GAY DIFFERENT LANGUAG
• GAY COUPLE ALBANIA EY STRASBOURG BATTLE OVER PARENTAL RIGHTS
• SURVEY: 53% OF ALBANIANS THK GAY PEOPLE ‘SHOULD NOT BE EE TO LIVE LIFE AS THEY WISH’
• GAY TIRANA
• BT GAY IENDLY BAR TIRANA - BUNKER 1944

HANGG OUT GAY ALBANIA – THE NOMADIC BOYS

Wh a landspe filled wh whe sand beach, fairytale-like stl, and a history that is as fiery as a Real Hoewiv rnn, is any wonr gay Albania is fast beg a mt-vis for LGBTQ+ travelers? Gay Marriage⚭✖ UnregnizedCensorship✔ No censorshipNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedEmployment Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyHog Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyConversn Therapy✔ Banned. LGBT hog discrimatn Albania is sexual orientatn and genr orientatn and genr inty Albania gay rights groups open first LGBTI shelter Balkan regn Same-sex adoptn Albania?

A 2021 report by ILGA gay rights anisatn, which brg together over 600 groups om 54 untri Europe and Central Asia, said that discrimatn agast the LGBT populatn Albania had creased sce the start of the COVID-19 panmic. It should be noted that gaydar gets ‘jammed’ this culture as men are not aaid to look at each other and touch and hold one another as iends; many do not shy away om eye ntact. There is only slight rmatn and awarens about homosexualy the untry, pecially for middle-age and olr people who grew up unr the reprsive regime of Enver Hoxha (1908-1985; power 1944-85) who clamped a reprsive munist hold on every aspect of life here for more than 40 years.

Speakg excellent English, Enida said Gay Pri Albania is small but on the move wh Alliance Agast Discrimatn and Pk Embassy (PE) both formed 2009 when the first events for IDAHO (Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia) took place Albania. Ct bee when the first public announcement was ma about PE beg supported by CRCAL the lol prs, wh ltle or no experience of reportg on LGBT issu, sensatnalized and exaggerated as a Gay Pri Ftival happeng.

CHAT GAY ALBANIA

Obvly this fluenced negative attus a general way for the better but still up agast the onle world of homophobia spread by numero live anti-gay groups and other homophobic eastern Europe untri onle (a legacy of the Soviet years that still today clgs to strong anti-gay attus persecutg and harassg LGBT activists who try to brg human and gay rights forward).

GAYLIFE ALBANIA - ALBANIA FOM

The Unn’s legal statut and ethil standards clearly forbid discrimatn agast any mori, cludg gays, which rankl ristant hardre tradnalists who n only thk of same-sex attractn through age-old scriptural prohibns. Enida went on to say that bee of the immatury of both PE onle and lack of healthy LGBT role mols, many youth thk beg gay means lookg for sex cludg lookg for foreign ‘sugar daddi’ to support them.

The first gay ‘ftival’ for 2012 was actually a formal walk to the state ombudsman’s office for human rights to officially requt brgg a Rabow Flag to the Prime Mister’s office–a ‘flag para’, if you will.

Subsequent to the publishg of accurate and biased reportage the US embassy sponsored a sensivy trag for the media to teach them about homosexualy and rponsible unbiased reportg. Prr to this, 2010 PE filed an official plat wh the anti-discrimatn missn agast a homophobic parliament member who clared publicly that homosexualy was a disease that should be treated wh hormon. (e-mail:) Alean Kunr Diskrimim te LGBT, sce may 2009, has been an anizatn of straight, gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr people, more broadly based than PE, who stand agast discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn and genr inty.

GAY LIFE ALBANIA IS DETERMED AND COURAGEO; AN INTERVIEW TIRANA

Events for the annual IDAHO day clu: a photo exhib of gay life; a rock ncert; a documentary film showg; tnal semars; public leaflets and posters offered public plac; and a A 30-send TV spot broadst support of LGBT rights featurg Albanian activists, artists, journalists and public officials. ) Sce then, however, ltle has been said officially about gay marriage but for LGBT cizens the ph ntu: 2017 the PRO-LGBT lear Kristi Pri (photo right) announced they would file a lawsu requtg equal regnn of gay relatnships.

BEG GAY ALBANIA: ‘KNOWG YOUR WORTH MAK EASIER’

In May 2012, cheerful activists Albania ro ra and dodged a smoke vice thrown at them by a young man (who was taken away by police) on their “Ri agast Homophobia” along the ma avenue of the pal Tirana as part of the untry’s IDAHO 2015 celebratns.

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.

ALBANIA GAY TRAVEL

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.

GAY LIFE 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. 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. “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.

ALBANIA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN JULY 2023

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. (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.

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

(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’. 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. 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.

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”.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

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.

To achieve this visn, Alean striv to support and empower a visible and clive lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr muny while creasg public unrstandg, tn, and awarens of issu of sexual orientatn and genr inty.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

The onle group participants are people who are livg both si and outsi Albania, are gay and straight, many of whom may never e to a formal meetg of the anizatn, but all of whom support the ia of an Albania where all people, regardls of sexual orientatn or genr inty, n live eely. Alean’s ongog programs revolve around a three-pronged approach of buildg and empowerg muny, public tn and advocy, and creatg visibily for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr issu. Activi of Alean have clud regular lectur on sexual orientatn and genr inty universy classrooms and at human rights events; equent and well-attend social events signed to build muny; public tn and visibily activi; and discsn groups where muny members n discs issu related to beg lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr Albania.

Given the importance of media shapg public opn and perceptn, Alean has participated a variety of prt, rad and televisn terviews and discsns, while also regnizg the need for dividual Albanians who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr to ci their personal level of fort wh disclosg their inti.

-Gay-Straight Alliance Agast Discrimatn: -Gay Pri Inx-Europe: -Pk Embassy: -Gay Albania Society: -Polil -Gay Albania Facebook: Albania Gay Boyz: -Gay Albania: -Gays Whout Borrs: -Gay Albanians Topix: HIV-AIDS: Also see: GlobalGayz Albania News & Reports. “Gay life Albania” is hardly an accurate scriptive word for this untry sce there is no public Pri prence and few urageo activists who work mostly behd the scen to lobby sympathetic ernment members and quietly offer support to young gays.

GAY LIFE KOSOVO

The rult is tratg and risky for LGBT cizens who want to move ahead to a progrsive “Gay Life Albania” of better human rights but are ught retrogra relig (Mlim and Catholic) opns and ristant old tradns. An Albanian LGBT activist wav a rabow flag as she attends Tirana Gay Pri to mark the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) on the ma boulevard Tirana on May 13, 2018. The cisn by Albania's orr of psychologists on Friday is "signifintly important for LGBTI adolcents", the gay rights associatn Pk Embassy said a registered therapists Albania mt be members of the orr of psychologists.

Medil experts nsir psychologil or spirual terventns to change someone's sexual orientatn psdo-scientific, effective and often most ntroversial techniqu volve admisterg electric shocks as subjects view imag of homosexual acts or jectns of the male hormone March 2018, the European parliament passed a rolutn nmng the practice and urgg member stat to ban .

GAY DATG BRONX

Earlier this month Germany beme the send European untry after Malta to ban nversn therapy for the past few years largely nservative Albania has ma progrs protectg gay rights, passg a law 2010 agast discrimatn based on sexual orientatn. 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.

"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. 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.

ALBERTI POPAJ [HOST] FACTS- WIKI, AGE, QVC, FAY, MARRIED, HBAND, SPOE, GAY, SALARY

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.

BE A GAY AND AN ALBANIAN, DIFFICULT BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE

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 jeopardy.There are reports that Jamai is refg to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat.“Our culture is not really acceptg of ,” said Renae Stevens, who was visg the Jamain nsulate Miami Wednday.Attorney Wayne Goldg is an advisor to Jamai’s ernment.“The whole ia of legislatn to legalize same-sex marriag, I thk they still have a long way to go,” he said. To appreciate the impact, pare that ary and polil upheaval wh the ments om a gay male partner livg Europe: “My partner life is om Kosovo, and we know what gay life is all about Kosovo.

GAY SHQIP - ALBANIAN GAY CHAT.

To add more to this dntg scene, nsir that the draft nstutn of of Kosovo was unr attack om Roman Catholic polil anizatns who fought agast any effort to protect gay people om discrimatn. Although Kosovo has among Europe’s most progrsive anti-discrimatn laws public attus ntue to be very homophobic and is unclear and uncerta to what extent the anti-discrimatn law is applied. That said, Charl and Fred report on their blog, “ Prista there is a big gay muny and many gay iendly plac you n go and feel ee; you jt need to ask the right persons for more .

GAY DIFFERENT LANGUAG

Wh the Albanian ernment’s latt proposal for legalisg same-sex marriag, and gay pri ncelled Belgra this weekend, gay rights have bee a hot topic across the Balkans. However, Arber Nuhiu om the human rights anisatn Elysium, which protects the rights of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr dividuals, told Balkan Insight that spe the law agast discrimatn, many gay men and lbians face abe and prejudice. The media furor surroundg the rapid openg and closure of Kosovo’s first gay bar has exposed the prer posn of the gay muny this eply nservative, maly Albanian land.

GAY COUPLE ALBANIA EY STRASBOURG BATTLE OVER PARENTAL RIGHTS

The Pure Pure Club briefly h the limelight September when an onle news portal revealed that was beg advertised on a popular gay webse as “Prista’s first gay iendly bar”.

But the venue closed soon after this unwanted publicy and is now beg renovated unr a new name, leavg Kosovo’s beleaguered gay muny feelg more isolated than ever.

SURVEY: 53% OF ALBANIANS THK GAY PEOPLE ‘SHOULD NOT BE EE TO LIVE LIFE AS THEY WISH’

But while the trendy youngsters dream of visa liberalizatn and of easier travel to the EU, young gays Kosovo have nowhere to go out and share dreams wh potential iends and partners.

GAY TIRANA

Acrdg to LGBT activist Sarah Maliqi, “Bee of the high level of homophobia this tradnal society, which homosexualy is nsired shameful and a taboo, the groups are often forced to hi their sexual inty.

As far as broar civil rights for gays were ncerned, however, Krasniqi said that “the ernment supports the law agast discrimatn, which clus discrimatn agast them”. Especially among gay men, happens that the mother has a stronger personaly than the father the fay, and when those rol are reversed, and no one knows who plays the leadg role the fay.

The latter, differently om what happens velpped untri, are still fightg for their elementary rights, so talkg about gay marriage and gay fay adoptn is a stretch.

BT GAY IENDLY BAR TIRANA - BUNKER 1944

The first step, acrdg to soclogist Mtafe Gara, is to rm the public opn about homosexualy not om those “who make opn closed doors, but om those who make them om the ntacts they have ma wh them to see what they are really like. Based on the plats, former police missner Kai Vp, more than one year ago, had ma a special group that would al wh the issu ncerng homosexuals, specifilly wh QESH, which had been harsher s cricism of the police. “The problem wh the police is that even if we pla, we don’t unt of them as factual abe agast homosexuals, bee the victims many s do not intify themselv as gay, ” he said.