An antidiscrimatn bill Moldova has bee a bone of ntentn between relig nservativ and gay-rights activists. And the bill's opponents have brought some ntroversial figur om the U.S. relig right to bolster their arguments.
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
LGBT Rights Moldova: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * homosexuality in moldova *
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. 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.
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)
The LGBT muny Moldova fac discrimatn hospals and the workplace. Acrdg to a survey, only 2% of Moldovans would wele havg a gay or lbian as a fay member, lleague or iend. Transsexuals have problems obtag new ID rds and have to stggle to overe discrimatn. A feature story * homosexuality in moldova *
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”.
GAY MOLDOVA
The past year has seen a sharp crackdown on sexual mori across the former Soviet space. But ty Moldova has emerged as an exceptn – wh new laws, march, and vio mpaigns all supportg lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights. * homosexuality in moldova *
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.
MOLDOVA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN AUGT 2023
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.
OF ALL PLAC, IS MOLDOVA LEADG ON GAY RIGHTS?
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.
SOLDIER ‘ABED FOR BEG GAY’ TOLD TO PROVI ‘TIMATE PICTUR’ TO ‘PROVE’ HIS SEXUALY
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.
HRC STATEMENT ON PL CAMERON’S ANTI-GAY LI MOLDOVA
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.