THE BEST Central Macedonia Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023)

Contents:

• NORTH MACEDONIA HOSTS S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH
• THE BEST CENTRAL MACEDONIA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS CENTRAL MACEDONIA
• HOW A MULTIETHNIC GAY PEASANT BEME A ROMAN EMPEROR
• GAY MACEDONIA
• ALEXANR THE GREAT: GAY OR STRAIGHT?
• MACEDONIA GAY RIGHTS RERD ‘WORST BALKANS’
• ALEXANR THE GREAT OR ALEXANR THE GAY?
• NORTH MACEDONIA GAY RIGHTS NEWSWIRE
• GAY NEWS FROM BALKAN
• MACEDONIA GAYS CHARGE GOVT WH HOMOPHOBIA
• NORTH MACEDONIA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN JULY 2023
• HOW GAY IENDLY IS OHRID? PARED TO SKOPJE? - REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA FOM
• MACEDONIA COM UNR FIRE OVER GAY RIGHTS
• GAY MACEDONIA NEWS AND REPORTS
• GAY HISTORY – APRIL 18, 382 BC: PHILIP II OF MACEDONIA IS BORN: CONQUEROR OF GREECE AND LOVER OF WOMEN AND MEN

NORTH MACEDONIA HOSTS S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH

Young men and habants of larger towns are generally more liberal their attus towards homosexualy than the Mlims, elrly people, women and ral habants.

The gay scene is not large; there was only one official gay club Skopje, at the time of my vis, and several gay-iendly tablishments loted the cy.

There are gay news articl regularly both prted and electronic media, as well as four web s and blogs wh solely gay ntent.

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HOW A MULTIETHNIC GAY PEASANT BEME A ROMAN EMPEROR

SKOPJE (Rters) - North Macedonia held s first Gay Pri march on Saturday, a tt of the nservative Balkan untry’s rerd on rpectg mory rights as seeks to jo the European men, lbians and other members of the LGBT muny ntue to face discrimatn and hate attacks across the Balkans.

A pro-EU aln led by Social Democrats and their ethnic Albanian partners have sought to improve the suatn of LGBT people North Macedonia, after replacg the nservative VMRO DPMNE party rights groups and gay activists say LGBT people North Macedonia still face discrimatn tn, work, health and welfare protectn, as well as facg hate speech.

Saturday’s march marked the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rts New York which kicked off the morn gay rights movement. Given the barbary of the era, seems remarkable to learn that ancient civilizatns had a far more enlightened opn of homosexualy than many morn natns.

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Philip was a product of his time; homosexualy was nsired normal Greek cy-stat such as Theb, although other stat were quick to judge the Thebans if they didn’t approve of same-sex relatnships. In fact, the ele fightg un nsisted of jt 300 men; 150 gay upl who swore an oath to die battle rather than retreat or surrenr.

ALEXANR THE GREAT: GAY OR STRAIGHT?

For a homosexual man born a peasant and raised a slave to scheme his way to the top and le an Empire sounds like a fairy tale or a Medieval drama really rememberg that did, spe all the odds sayg never would, is why Basil’s story is important for to remember today.

In the past, opprobrium tend to be rerved for those of a different ethnicy or relign, but now beg gay has been add to the list. Every year (and often unr prsure om the mands of the European tegratn procs) Balkan ernments are beg put on the spot to protect gay pri march om relig and natnalist bigots.

In this photo story Tomislav Geiev seeks to she a light on everyday gay life pictur are part of a seri to e out of a 2010 llaboratn between Germany’s Robert Bosch Stiftung and World Prs Photo who teamed up to help 15 talented young photographers om southern and eastern Europe. This is hardly surprisg a untry whose medil textbooks still scribe homosexualy as a mental disorr and where parents regularly take their homosexual children to everyone Macedonia has an opn on homosexualy but almost nobody has any real rmatn.

MACEDONIA GAY RIGHTS RERD ‘WORST BALKANS’

Yet, to give Stone his due, he was prepared to take on the ch the welter of homophobic cricism he received for pictg his hero  close homoerotic enunter wh the Persian nuch. For ancient Greeks there was no ntradictn between youthful homoeroticism and predomantly or wholly heterosexual adult proclivy and activy.

ALEXANR THE GREAT OR ALEXANR THE GAY?

Macedonia least rpects the rights of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual muny, of all the untri the Balkans, an ternatnal watchdog says. An updated annual report, “Rabow Europe Inx 2011, ” by the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, ILGA–Europe, puts Macedonia at the bottom of the Balkans when to legal protectn for the muny. Macedonia sred only -2 on a sle om 17 to -7, wh 17 as the hight sre and -7 as the lowt, meang a untry characterised by “gross vlatns of human rights and discrimatn” agast the gay muny.

The rt of the Balkans is only slightly better and most untri fall to the so-lled yellow zone of untri that are medcre rpecters of gay rights. Anti-discrimatn legislatn passed 2010 do not refer explicly to sexual orientatn, although the ernment claims lbian, gay, and bisexual Macedonians are vered wh the legislatn unr “other grounds.

NORTH MACEDONIA GAY RIGHTS NEWSWIRE

The most recent lol electn mpaign April 2013 was marked by the e of homophobic and transphobic sults, which, Bekim Asani, chair of LGBT Uned Macedonia has said, were an “attempt to distract people om the real problems the untry.

“Homophobia is beg ed as a polil weapon reflectg a wir pattern of LGBT victimizatn Macedonia, ” Brish human rights activist Peter Tatchell told Gay Star News.

The European Parliament’s Intergroup on LGBT Rights has lled for Macedonia’s “anti-discrimatn legislatn to be brought le wh EU law” and on “polil and societal lears to nmn homophobic and transphobic vlence. ” But the VMRO is once aga pursug a nstutnal amendment on marriage, not only bee is some way woven to the party’s ethno-natnalist, pro-fay iology, but bee Macedonia, homophobic and transphobic legislatn and speech pay polil divinds.

GAY NEWS FROM BALKAN

As the two did not engage sex ancient thors praised Alexanr’s self-ntrol whereas morn advot, like Jam Davidson, e as nformatn of homosexualy. Hephatn secured high-rankg posns the army and, Troy, the two ma sacrific at the shr of Achill and Patrocl: two other likely lovers that suffered history’s homosexual erasure.

MACEDONIA GAYS CHARGE GOVT WH HOMOPHOBIA

Advot for Alexanr’s homosexualy argue that he yearned for children wh his lover, Hephatn, and utilised the Persian prcs as surrogat given that the men’s offsprg would be s. The ia of an LGBT or gay in was created the 20th century and is a person revered by the LGBT muny for beg a champn of LGBT rights and/or beg a notor LGBT person themselv.

Employg a broad fn, Alexanr uld be nsired an LGBT in for beg a remarkable person that likely engaged homosexual relatnships.

Yet, if all necsary morn creria are applied, this may not be the se; Alexanr did not further acceptance of homosexual relatns between social class. Sce the sexual revolutn over half a century ago, Alexanr’s sexual inty has been reclaimed by liberal Wtern muni as a gay hero.

NORTH MACEDONIA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN JULY 2023

Cuz Macedonia apparently 80% thk 's a mental illns and 65% thk that gay people should go to jail (thought that was done 2002 and I don't know how many were asked the survey), there's also very few laws that protect them om discrimatn so 's practilly impossible to fd a good job or adopt a child or get married ( I thk 's jt impossible to get married Macedonia). Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) persons North Macedonia face legal and social challeng not experienced by non-LGBT rints.

Homosexualy was outlawed North Macedonia until 1996, when the untry crimalized sex between people of the same sex as a ndn for beg a member of the Council of Europe. [17] There are many reports about public huiatns, worker firgs and even stg homosexual teenagers onto the streets due to revelatn of their sexual orientatns. A survey rried out 2002 by the Center for Civil and Human Rights showed that more than 80% of the people saw homosexualy as "a psychiatric disorr that endangered fai".

HOW GAY IENDLY IS OHRID? PARED TO SKOPJE? - REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA FOM

In 2002, the Centre for Civil and Human Rights nducted a reprentative survey, which revealed that 80% of Macedonians saw homosexualy as a psychiatric disorr which they perceived as a danger to the fay. For LGBT history month, gut blogger Prof Lloyd Llewellyn-Jon (Chair of Ancient History, Cardiff Universy) asks: 'Alexanr the Great or Alexanr the Gay? The qutn of Alexanr’s homosexualy, once the prerve of scholars such as Tarn whose termed attempt 1948, ‘to straighten the matter out’ (no pun tend, surely) and close future discsn down, met only wh Badian’s hatchet-job of a dissectn of Tarn’s own pedantic nservatism a later.

MACEDONIA COM UNR FIRE OVER GAY RIGHTS

The sexual revolutn of the 1960s and 1970s stimulated even Classicists to thk new and excg ways, and Alexanr’s sexualy was thrown wi open for bate – classrooms, on gay polil march, popular lerature, magaz, pornography – and the strengtheng gay muni of the liberal wt happily embraced the ancient ler not only as a gay prototype, but as a gay hero. In recent s enthiastic (if flawed) gay-tert webs have been bily appropriatg Alexanr as a role mol for the morn gay man; so much so, ed, that the Cassell’s Queer Compann entry dited to the Macedonian nqueror not that Alexanr is a staple the long list of historil gays that have been ‘claimed ‘om history. The talk is not even ncerned wh iologi surroundg ancient exprsns of sexual inty eher, but do look at ntemporary exprsns of the sexual and genred self bee our foc is explorg morn ncepts of homosexual inti which have attached themselv to the figure of Alexanr the Great.

Takg as s startg pot this lecture will exame several twenty-first century rpons to ‘Alexanr the Gay’ by people who intify themselv through a range of genrs and sexuali. Macedonia's parliament has agreed to nsir proposed nstutnal amendments to effectively ban gay marriage and impose lims on public bt... Macedonia least rpects the rights of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual muny, of all the untri the Balkans, an ternatnal watchdog says...

Serbia's first Gay Pri march for four years has been held the pal Belgra, amid huge secury, cludg special forc and armoured vehicl...

GAY MACEDONIA NEWS AND REPORTS

PODGORICA, Montenegro – Protected by hundreds of rt police, about two hundred gay activists have marched peacefully Montenegro, a stnchly nservative Balkan untry seekg EU membership. The attackers shouted homophobic sults such as, “There will be no [Pri] para Sarajevo” and, “There will be no faggots Sarajevo, ” then attacked three of the participants.

The events most clearly reflect that Bosnia and Herzea remas a eply patriarchal, natnalistic and ultra-homophobic society... The Natnal Assembly will hold a key marriage equaly vote Tuday, as homosexual partners will be given the same rights as heterosexual partners unr amendments to the act on marriage and fay relatns.

GAY HISTORY – APRIL 18, 382 BC: PHILIP II OF MACEDONIA IS BORN: CONQUEROR OF GREECE AND LOVER OF WOMEN AND MEN

UPDATE: Parliament is expected to endorse full marriage equaly for homosexual upl Tuday eveng as a broad aln of centre-left parti voiced support for the amendments to the marriage and fay relatns act.