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Contents:

• GAY LIFE ROMANIA
• WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE GAY COMMUNIST ROMANIA
• BETIFUL GAY ROMANIA: SIGHISOARA, CRAVA, BUCHART, BRASOV, BRAN & PEL STL, AND MUCH MORE
• EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS
• WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE GAY ROMANIA?
• THE LIFE OF A GAY MAN ROMANIA
• GAY GUY TRAVELS BUCHART? - BUCHART FOM
• GAY LIFE ROMANIA – THE NOMADIC BOYS
• THE BEST BUCHART GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS BUCHART
• GAY BUCHART, ROMANIA
• GAY ROMANIA - TRANSYLVANIA FOM
• GAY CLUJ-NAPO
• GLOBALGAYZ: THE BOOK

GAY LIFE ROMANIA

In fact, the past three s have seen huge progrs for LGBT rights Romania: homosexualy was wholly crimalized (1996), the age of nsent was equalized (2002), anti-discrimatn laws the workplace and regardg the provisn of servic were troduced (2000).

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Currently, relig and nservative anizatns are mobilizg to hold a referendum on amendg the nstutn so that will enshre marriage as ‘between a man and a woman’; this would make legalizg gay marriage much more difficult and is seen by many as a step backwards. In an tertg way, is almost more important to be wary Romania than a untry where homosexualy is pletely prohibed; while is legal Romania, the untry is an -between zone where the populatn is more aware of the LGBT muny, and therefore hostile attus are also more out the open. While the USA has spent almost thirty-five years phg for anti-gay legislatn at the feral level, Coman and his dited panns tablished ACCEPT 1996 and by 2002 had succsfully persuad the Romanian ernment to change s anti-gay statut.

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But to the dismay of nservativ and relig orthodox adherents, the price of admissn to the new Europe ntaed human rights standards that require, among other thgs, that homosexualy be crimalized and anti-discrimatn laws be put to place. Media verage is ually sensatnalized and slanted as to make the dividuals volved appear foolish or ls worthy than ‘normal’ people, ” said Flor after dner as we walked toward one of Buchart’s’s gay venu, ‘Queens’ ( was not open yet for the eveng).

So, when Accept anized a meetg about Romania's gay history, I knew I had to was there that I met Daniel Ia, one of the founrs of Accept and a man who, 1990, was the first person to ask for the dissolutn of Article 200, the sectn of Romania's penal that crimalized same-sex relatnships. That officer was also a psychologist and told me he wanted rmatn on “the phenomenon”—that he was lookg to make a report to prove that gay people were not hurtg the state, that they exist all layers of society, and that some of them are valuable tried to nvce me he was workg support of gay rights.

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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.

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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. 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’.

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“There’s a real regrsn happeng many different untri, and rights that had been regnized are now beg challenged, ” said Evelyne Paradis, the executive director of the European branch of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA-Europe).

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“You have plac like Germany, France, Spa where 85% or more say that homosexualy should be accepted by society and then once you’re past the dividg le, on the other si of the former Iron Curta, those numbers beg to fall pretty rapidly and then get even lower as you go to Rsia, ” he said. Not to be disunted is the creepg fluence of voic on the far right, cludg that of Iulian Capsali, a Romanian Orthodox prit who also traed as a lawyer, who prented himself durg the European electns May as “the ndidate of the Romanian fay, ” opposed to abortn and “homosexual culture.

In a survey nducted April 2013 by Romania’s Natnal Council for Combatg Discrimatn, 31 percent of Romanians said they would not feel at all fortable around a gay person; 54 percent said they would never have a meal wh a gay person; and 48 percent said they would be very disturbed if they found out that a fay member was gay.

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Gay Marriage⚭✖ Foreign same-sex marriag regnized onlyCensorship✔ No censorshipChangg Genr✖ Legal, but requir surgeryNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedEmployment Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyHog Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyConversn Therapy✖ Not banned. 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.

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. There ed to be a bar lled Tuxedo, that's now closed, alsd Red Heart opened as a gay club, but is now very much a mix of straights and young gypsy guys (who will, whout fail, e up and say hello wh a $$$ their ey - somethg which is extremely prevalent all gay clubs Buchart.

We even got a flavour of Romanian homophobia as gay travellers: when approachg a bunch of hotels Buchart and Brașov askg whether they’re ok to host a gay uple and allow to share a double bed, the rponse we got om que a lot of them (like the Rembrandt Hotel Buchart and the Aro Palace Hotel Brașov) was along the l of:. More than 15, 000 people have marched Romania’s pal Buchart for equal rights for genr and sexual mori as the untry’s lower chamber of the parliament is set to vote on a law later this year that bans discsn of homosexualy and genr inty public spac.

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Romania breachg LGBTQ+ upl’ human rights, European urt l, 2023/May/23First Transgenr Woman to Run for Office Romanian Electns, 2020/Jul/21Romanian senators jt slammed down two civil partnership bills, 2019/Mar/19Romania’s anti-gay marriage vote void over low turnout, 2018/Oct/07Romania marriage referendum: ‘Is silence the bt fence agast homophobia? ’, 2018/Oct/05Romania’s top urt l favor of LGBTI rights before referendum, 2018/Sep/29Romania’s top urt says referendum n go ahead to block marriage equaly, 2018/Sep/18Romanian rights groups challenge ‘homophobic’ marriage referendum, 2018/Sep/15The Latt: Romania gay pri para builds on urt lg, 2018/Jun/09Romania Gay Marriage Case Could Have Outsize Impact Europe, 2017/Nov/211, 000 Romanian gay pri march amid mov to lim rights, 2017/May/20A More Queer Buchart, 2016/Oct/05A More Queer Buchart, 2016/Oct/05Romanian Court Says Referendum To Ban Gay Marriage Is Constutnal, 2016/Jul/21Romanian Orthodox Church: marriage only between man, woman, 2016/Jan/17$210, 871 Feral Study Us Smartphon to Stop Spread of HIV among Gay Men – Romania, 2015/Jan/14The Life of a Gay Man Romania, 2014/Aug/23Romania: Same-sex partnerships bill unanimoly rejected by parliament mtee, 2014/Mar/18Romanian gay uple marry on TV and w realy show, 2013/Sep/16Romania anti-gay asslt on seven people, 2012/Nov/09Gay Romania News & Reports 2009-11, 2009/May/29Gay Romania News & Reports 1999-2008, 2009/Jan/01Relentls Homophobia Rag the Balkans, 2008/Jun/28. Romania had s first televised same-sex marriage last week when a gay uple won a popular weddg themed realy TV show Romanians watched their first televised same-sex marriage last week when gay uple Daniel and Michael won that untry’s versn of UK realy show Four Weddgs.

1 Medil Care Romania Com at an Extra Cost 3/09 (background story) 2 Sub-Commtee Bans Homosexual Coupl From Adoptg Kids 4/09 3 Anti-gay march draws some sr of people 5/09 4 Romanian versn of the Yogyakarta Prcipl lnched 5/09 5 Discrimatory Partnership and Adoptn Provisns New Civil Co 7/09 6 Buchart crowd boo… Read more ».

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0 Background story: 1996–Romania crimaliz homosexual behavr 8/99 1 Romanian MPs vote to crimalise homosexualy 6/00 2 Romanians Agast Gays, Jews, Gypsi 11/00 3 It’s Still No Breeze for Gays, Even Diplomatic On 10/01 4 Romania lifts gay ban; church objects 12/01 5 Sexual Orientatn Discrimatn Elimated om the Crimal Law 2/02 6 ‘Accept’ Country… Read more ».

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