Gay Croatia

Contents:

• ZAGREB GAY PRI 2021 ANALYSIS: ISSU STILL EXIST, PRI CELEBRAT HISTORY AND PRENT EQUALY
• CROATIA'S PRINT NMNS BURNG OF GAY UPLE EFFIGY
• MASLI GAY TRAVEL
• CROATIAN GOVERNMENT TO PURSUE LAW ALLOWG CIVIL UNNS FOR GAY COUPL
• GAY ZAGREB, CROATIA | THE ESSENTIAL LGBT TRAVEL GUI!
• GAY LIFE CROATIA
• CROATIAN GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS PROTT AHEAD OF MARRIAGE EQUALY REFERENDUM

ZAGREB GAY PRI 2021 ANALYSIS: ISSU STILL EXIST, PRI CELEBRAT HISTORY AND PRENT EQUALY

Gay Marriage⚭✖ Civil unnsCensorship✔ No censorshipChangg Genr✔ Legal, surgery not requiredNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedEmployment Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyHog Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyDonatg Blood✖ Banned (fe ferral)Conversn Therapy✖ Not banned. Homosexual activy Croatia is Homosexualy is legal the untryIllegal (imprisonment as punishment)up to two years of prisonSame-sex marriage Croatia?

Current statSce Jul 2003Illegal producg homophobic material n rry up to one year's imprisnmentLGBT employment discrimatn Croatia?

Eurobarometer Discrimatn the EU 2015 report nclud the followg: 48% of people Croatia believe that gay, lbian, and bisexual people should have the same rights as heterosexual people, and 37% of them believe same-sex marriag should be allowed throughout Europe. When asked about havg a gay, lbian or bisexual person the hight elected polil posn rults were as follows: 40% of the rponnts were fortable wh the ia, 13% morately fortable, 6% different, 38% unfortable, and 3% didn’t know.

CROATIA'S PRINT NMNS BURNG OF GAY UPLE EFFIGY

When asked whether homosexualy should be a crime, 68% of people Croatia strongly disagreed wh that (send hight percentage after the Netherlands where 70% of people strongly disagreed), 4% somewhat disagreed, 19% were ntral, 4% somewhat agreed, and 5% strongly agreed (the lowt percentage of people who strongly agreed among European untri clud the survey). In prev years, lbian NGO Kontra had plaed to the Mistry of Edutn and the Ombudswoman for Genr Equaly that some books (mostly for relig tn) featured homophobic ntent, but also that homosexualy was only ever mentned the ntext of HIV/AIDS tn. One relig textbook republished this year “Wh Christ to Life” removed a sentence prevly claimg that medice hadn’t properly vtigated homosexualy.

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The Zagreb Admistrative Court sisted that the Supreme Court reach a cisn a 2009 se, which LGBTI NGOs sued a relign teacher who tght pupils that homosexualy was a disease.

CROATIAN GOVERNMENT TO PURSUE LAW ALLOWG CIVIL UNNS FOR GAY COUPL

Other visible public events (bike ri, ftivals wh high impact)On 17 May 2018, Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia and Transphobia, activists monstrated at the se of the vlent 2011 Pri march Spl, askg for the retroductn of ‘vlent behavur’ the Crimal Co. The Croatian Medil Chamber removed homosexualy om s list of mental disorrs 1973 – four years before the troductn of the new Penal Co, and seventeen years before the World Health Organizatn did the same.

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The 2000s proved a turng pot for LGBT history Croatia wh the formatn of several LGBT associatns and the first gay pri event Zagreb  2002 durg which a group of extremists attacked a number of marchers. A 2010 rolutn by the European Parliament exprsed ncern at the rentment agast the LGBT mory Croatia, evinced most recently by homophobic attacks on participants the LGBT Pri para Zagreb; urg the Croatian thori to nmn and prosecute polil hatred and vlence agast any mory; and v the Croatian Government to implement and enforce the Anti-Discrimatn Law. Five years after a referendum effectively banned gay marriage Croatia, nservativ behd the vote will gather a 5-star Zagreb hotel to mark the anniversary.

December 1 marks five years sce Croatia voted a referendum to fe marriage as a unn ‘between a man and a woman’, effectively banng gay marriage the predomantly Catholic natn that only five months earlier had bee the newt member of the European Unn. Ls than a year after the plebisce, the Life Partnership Act gave gay upl Croatia all the rights enjoyed by married heterosexual upl, wh the exceptn of the right to foster or adopt a child. While Zidarevic says he and his partner have no plans for children, he noted that a draft Foster Care Act Croatia mak no mentn of gay upl.

GAY LIFE CROATIA

The gay rights anisatn Rabow Fay has lled on Croatian MPs to clu same-sex life partners the fal text of the act and th monstrate that “Croatia stands si by si wh unti such as Germany and Ireland treatg their cizens equally. June 2013 – More than 10, 000 people jo Zagreb Pri the Croatian pal support of gays and lbians their stggle for the legal right to marry.

Media ptn, A protter's sign reads "Homosexualy is not a choice, hate is a choice"Croatian voters have backed proposals to ban same-sex marriag a of those who voted approved chang to Croatia's nstutn to fe marriage as a unn between a man and a woman. Attus changgMedia ptn, Croatian Lbian Group: "The ernment never had the tentn of allowg same sex marriag Croatia"Gay rights protters, unr a heavy police prence, marched for an hour through the the pal Zagreb on Saturday and unfurled a giant rabow flag outsi parliament. Corrponnts say attus towards gay rights Croatia - which joed the European Unn July - are slowly Zagreb's first gay pri para 2002, dozens of participants were beaten up by extremists.

First held 2002, attracts more and more people every year, om LGBTQ members, straight people that support gay rights to NGOs, human rights activists, and even policians om the left and liberal specter.

CROATIAN GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS PROTT AHEAD OF MARRIAGE EQUALY REFERENDUM

„The Stonewall Rts, also lled the Stonewall Uprisg, began the early hours of June 28, 1969, when New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay club loted Greenwich Village New York Cy.

Other larger ci Croatia, such as Spl, slowly but surely, do follow that path too, and Rijeka, the pnacle of liberal Croatia, is also a very gay-iendly cy.