Albania psychologists barred om nductg gay 'nversn therapy' | Rters

Contents:

• GAY LIFE ALBANIA
• ALBANIA GAY TRAVEL
• ALBANIA PSYCHOLOGISTS BARRED OM NDUCTG GAY 'NVERSN THERAPY'
• ALBANIA JT BEME THE THIRD COUNTRY EUROPE TO BAN ANTI-GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

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 intyConversn 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? A 2021 report by ILGA gay rights anisatn, which brg together over 600 groups om 54 untri Europe and Central Asia, said that discrimatn agast the LGBT populatn Albania had creased sce the start of the COVID-19 panmic. On the Internatnal Day agast Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, the PINK Embassy published a 10-year Report on Human Rights Vlatns of LGBTI persons Albania.

- 30% of Albanians do not agree at all wh same-sex relatnships, a figure that ranks Albania as one of the most homophobic untri the regn;. The Print of the PINK Embassy, ​​Alt Hazizaj, on behalf of all the anizers unrled: “On the Internatnal Day agast Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, Albania still ntu to prive LGBTI people of the enjoyment of equal rights.

ALBANIA GAY TRAVEL

Unr the motto "Raise the flag", the PINK Embassy and supporters of the LGBTI muny Albania have already tablished an annual tradn for the promotn and awarens raisg of the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex people. The two have been named “two of the world’s most urageo LGBTI+ activists and human rights fenrs”, workg environments where “homophobia is wispread”. It all started when she met an Amerin lbian uple, and created a Facebook group, “Alliance agast Discrimatn – straight and gay”, which around 500 people joed wh three months of s creatn.

The European Commissn’s annual report on Albania 2021 noted that discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex and queer (LGBTIQ) persons remas pervasive Albania, pecially affectg accs to healthre, tn, jtice, employment and hog. Only last year, a h public bate and media enzy epted over the issue of gay marriage and parentg, after the thori refed to register a lbian uple as parents of two baby girls; only one uld be regnized as a sgle mother parent.

Back 2016, right-wg MPs and clerics voiced ncern about two proposals that would smooth the path towards legalizg gay marriage, when the nstutn was beg changed le wh judicial reform.

ALBANIA PSYCHOLOGISTS BARRED OM NDUCTG GAY 'NVERSN THERAPY'

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. (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.

(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’. 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.

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.

ALBANIA JT BEME THE THIRD COUNTRY EUROPE TO BAN ANTI-GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

[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.