Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Agg

Contents:

• GAY LIFE ALBANIA
• 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR AGG

GAY LIFE ALBANIA

Gay Marriage⚭✖ UnregnizedCensorship✔ No censorshipNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedEmployment Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyHog Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyMilary✖ Lbians, gays, bisexuals permted, transgenr people bannedConversn 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? Servg openly ary Albania is lbians, gays, bisexuals permted, transgenr people banned.

Current statSce May 7, 2013Lbians, gays, bisexuals permted, transgenr people banned Hate crime law allows LGBTQ+ dividuals to serve openly whout discrimatn the ary however transgenrs aren't. 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. However, tradnal homophobic attus force Albanian gays and lbians to secrecy and toward the g of society.

(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. In 2012, another attempt has been ma to hold a gay Pri march and ftival the pal cy.

'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY

But the Prime MInister has nmned the homophobic attus and statements sayg, “They were “unacceptable” and “an excs. (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’. (image right: “I’m gay and n be anyone; son, brother, father, grandson, iend, your lleague; I n view them”).

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.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR AGG

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.

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. ALGA and AHGR have been tryg to brg to the public’s attentn the treatment of homosexuals Albania. Human rights reports on Albania nce that graed attus among the public leave Albanian gays and lbians on the g of society.

Acrdg to AHRG, Albanian homosexuals face “tolerance, physil and psychologil vlence – often om the police – and discrimatn the workplace.