HRC Statement on Pl Cameron’s Anti-Gay Li Moldova - Human Rights Campaign

Contents:

• GAY RIGHTS AT CENTER STAGE IN BATTLE OVER MOLDOVA ANTIDISCRIMATN BILL
• MOLDOVA: THE SUATN REGARDG GAY MEN AND LBIANS, CLUDG THE LAWS ON HOMOSEXUALY, THE TREATMENT OF GAY MEN AND LBIANS, PROTECTN OFFERED BY THE STATE AND THE EXISTENCE OF SUPPORT SERVIC (2008 - JUNE 2010)
• GAY MOLDOVA
• MOLDOVA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN AUGT 2023
• OF ALL PLAC, IS MOLDOVA LEADG ON GAY RIGHTS?
• SOLDIER ‘ABED FOR BEG GAY’ TOLD TO PROVI ‘TIMATE PICTUR’ TO ‘PROVE’ HIS SEXUALY
• HRC STATEMENT ON PL CAMERON’S ANTI-GAY LI MOLDOVA

GAY RIGHTS AT CENTER STAGE IN BATTLE OVER MOLDOVA ANTIDISCRIMATN BILL

Ten years after passg landmark legislatn to protect mori, cludg the much-persecuted LGBT muny, a recent survey has revealed that most people Moldova still hold negative attus toward lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people. Acrdg to Feldman, 2021, an electn year, was marked by much hate speech, thanks to all the preelectn mpaigng, although 2022 has been marked by several homophobic verbal attacks by policians as well.

A "rabow map and x" rankg protectns for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people across Europe has creded Moldova wh makg the most progrs to improve legal standards over the past year.

MOLDOVA: THE SUATN REGARDG GAY MEN AND LBIANS, CLUDG THE LAWS ON HOMOSEXUALY, THE TREATMENT OF GAY MEN AND LBIANS, PROTECTN OFFERED BY THE STATE AND THE EXISTENCE OF SUPPORT SERVIC (2008 - JUNE 2010)

One of Moldova's most proment LGBT-rights activists, GenrDoc-M rmatn center director Angela Frolov, who ntributed to the study by ILGA-Europe, the regnal sectn of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex (LGBTI) Associatn, said she was pleased by the "leap. While homosexualy is legal here, some two thirds of Moldovan society believe that LGBT people should be kicked out of the untry, and only one percent would be ready to accept an LGBT person as a fay member. ”Four homosexual people livg Chișău, the pal, shared their thoughts (on the basis of anonymy) regardg the most wispread assumptns, stereotyp, and prumptns about Moldova’s LGBT people.

But practice, the circumstanc and people I am surround by do not perm some reason, the majory of people believe that we’re pable of love, that homosexual relatnships are only about sex. I’m sure that if one day, all Moldova’s LGBT people told their relativ about themselv unison, then homophobia would disappear our untryOthers exclaim that nobody bothers LGBT people here, askg why we need march and “some kd of special rights”. At some pot I stopped forcg myself to fall love wh general, I’m sure that if one day, all Moldova’s LGBT people told their relativ about themselv unison, then homophobia would disappear our untry.

When I ask my acquatanc om the LGBT muny, they tell me that their parents and lleagu don’t even spect their people who oppose LGBT march or the very existence of gay and lbian people don’t spect that their brothers, sisters, parents or children are LGBT.

GAY MOLDOVA

Perhaps march n help people overe this unnatural fear of their own children, and they n learn to see them as parents are still aaid to send children to schools wh openly gay teachers. It’s a method which worked Nazi Germany — and when members of the opposn, Jews, gays and lbians were sent to ncentratn mps, many people Germany saw that as que alright, sce they intified the groups the untry’s most prsg problem.

I know how I n help my fellow LGBT people here, and my fellow Moldovans general, bee I don’t work only on LGBT, 18, stuntWhout LGBT march, society would ntue to believe that only two or three gay people live the untry. Gay Marriage⚭✖ Unregnized, only same-sex marriage officialCensorship✔ No censorshipChangg Genr✖ Legal, but requir surgeryNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedEmployment Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyHog Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyMilary✖ Lbians, gays, bisexuals permted, transgenr people bannedDonatg Blood✖ Banned (fe ferral)Conversn Therapy✖ Not banned. Acrdg to GenrDoc, an NGO that protects the right of the LGBT muny Moldova, there are about 90, 000 homosexuals Moldova, but gays and lbians ntue to hi their sexual inty bee of prejudice and fear of beg exclud om society.

MOLDOVA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN AUGT 2023

Acrdg to a natnal survey published 2011 “reprentativ of the gay and lbian muny are accepted as neighbors only by 14% of rponnts, as work lleagu by 13%, as iends by 10%, and as a future members of the fay by 4%”, brgg the tegrated acceptance ditor to a bare 2%” was one of the reasons why the Moldovan Government stepped back and whdrew s own draft anti-discrimatn law after went before Parliament approval last March. Intertgly, the on who protted and prsured Moldovan learship to take the draft off the table most volly were Orthodox relig groups who believe such a law would lim the eedom of speech of nservative Moldovans exprsg homophobic views. GenrDoc, a non-ernmental anizatn which advot for LGBT rights Moldova, argu that Moldovan society is not ready to rpect the terts of the gay and lbian muny or to unrstand their needs.

Ala Glavan agre that the doctor should have abstaed om exprsg her opn about homosexualy and tried to rrect such reactns by mentng that her stutn is open to homosexuals, Roma, HIV-posive patients, or any other mori om prefer private medil stutnsOne doctor who homosexuals Chişău tst is Gala L whose Health Center “Neova” has an LGBT-iendly reputatn. Activists say they hope the small-sle march sends a posive signal to people who still remember the vic crackdown on a cy pri event 2008, when a b rryg LGBT activists was attacked by hundreds of antigay protters as police stood by and watched.

LGBT rights have stggled to fd their place on human-rights agendas the former Soviet Unn, where homosexualy and genr nonnformy, crimalized unr munism, still rry a ep social stigma. The most progrs Moldova is seen as a sharp ntrast to velopments neighborg Rsia and Ukrae, where thori are prsg a range of measur -- cludg a ban on so-lled homosexual "propaganda" -- seen as a massive setback for the LGBT rights movement.

OF ALL PLAC, IS MOLDOVA LEADG ON GAY RIGHTS?

Pavlcu’s experience sparked a bate about Moldova’s attu towards homosexualy, wh even Print Maia Sandu - who, as head of state, is also manr--chief of the army- terveng to warn that "such discrimatory behavur is unacceptable”. A STIGMATISED COMMUNITYHomosexualy is legal Moldova, but surveys show that LGBT people ntue to face discrimatn om the thori, the wir society and their own 2021, advocy group ILGA-Europe ranked Moldova 38th out of 49 European untri for s rpect for LGBT rights. It was proposed as part of Moldova's effort to ga an associatn agreement wh the European ntroversial Lively believ homosexualy is a liftyle choice wh dire social nsequenc and has ma a reer recent years mpaigng agast gay rights around the world.

SOLDIER ‘ABED FOR BEG GAY’ TOLD TO PROVI ‘TIMATE PICTUR’ TO ‘PROVE’ HIS SEXUALY

"I've been alg wh the laws all over the world and I regnize -- as I said there the lectur I gave and the media terviews that I gave -- an antidiscrimatn law based on sexual orientatn is the seed that ntas the entire tree of the homosexual polil agenda wh all of s poisono u, " Lively tells RFE/RL, "and that, if you allow an antidiscrimatn policy to go to effect, sentially puts the power of the law and the ernment to the hands of gay activists and mak people who disapprove of homosexualy crimals. Once is planted a untry, turns to a whole tree that bears poisoned adds that Lively "explicly told that this bill is jt the begng, and later homosexuals will be given rights, startg wh the right to hold public monstratns.

HRC STATEMENT ON PL CAMERON’S ANTI-GAY LI MOLDOVA

People who appear on the list n have their nam removed by submtg a wrten statement opposg the antidiscrimatn, who heads the Temecula, California-based Abidg Tth Mistri, -thored the ntroversial book "The Pk Swastika, " which argued that homosexualy the Nazi Party ntributed to ancy the Third Reich. He played a proment role generatg support for a wily cricized bill Uganda that would crimalize homosexual activy and, s origal versn, lled for the ath penalty for some Of Genoci, Child AbeBoris Dtrich, actg director of the advocy group Human Rights Watch's lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) program, jt returned to the Uned Stat om a trip to Moldova, where he discsed Lively's vis wh rights advot Chis. "He me there wh a story like what he told Uganda, that if this antidiscrimatn law would be accepted, the society would be homosexualized and the homosexuals would take over and would be very dangero, " Dtrich Uganda, Lively met wh lawmaker David Bahati, who drafted the antigay bill, and gave speech which he tied gays to the 1994 genoci neighborg Rwanda.