PM Backs Albania’s First Gay Para | Balkan Insight

Contents:

• GAY LIFE ALBANIA
• ALBANIA GAY RIGHTS ANIZATNS HOLD ANNUAL PRI RI
• GAY TIRANA
• BT GAY IENDLY BAR TIRANA - BUNKER 1944
• ALBANIA GAY TRAVEL
• PM BACKS ALBANIA’S FIRST GAY PARA
• I LOVE TIRANA SIGN RERATED AS LGBT FLAG FOR THE GAY PARA
• 6TH TIRANA GAY (P)RI WHOUT INCINTS
• TIRANA GAY (P)RI MARCH
• GAY LIFE ALBANIA IS DETERMED AND COURAGEO; AN INTERVIEW TIRANA
• GAY-PARADA MBAHET EDHE Në TIRANë
• UKRAE HOLDS UNTRY'S LARGT EVER GAY PRI PARA

GAY LIFE ALBANIA

Dozens of members and supporters of the LGBT + muny (gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr) marched wh rabow-lored flags, acpanied by police on the ma streets of the Albanian pal. Homosexualy was crimalized Albania 1995, but homophobia and discrimatn agast the LGBT muny ntue to be pronounced. The US Department of State’s 2021 Human Rights Report, the sectn on Albania, mentns that LGBT + persons are among the protected class for hate crim, but “spe the law and the ernment’s formal support for human rights, public officials make statements homophobic ”.

ALBANIA GAY RIGHTS ANIZATNS HOLD ANNUAL PRI RI

The PINK Embassy rri the LGBTI flag to major stutns as part of the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia and Transphobia.

GAY TIRANA

#TIRANAPRIDE2020, as other years, took place around 17 May, the Internatnal Day agast Homophobia and Transphobia.

BT GAY IENDLY BAR TIRANA - BUNKER 1944

- 53% of Albanians believe that “homosexuals and lbians should not be ee to live the life they want;. - 56% of Albanians thk that a homosexual should not enjoy public office;.

ALBANIA GAY TRAVEL

Albania is a homogeneo untry ethnilly wh only small mori. 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.

Albania crimalized homosexualy 1995. However, tradnal homophobic attus force Albanian gays and lbians to secrecy and toward the g of society. (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. There was no gay pri march Tirana, the pal cy of Albania, 2010.

PM BACKS ALBANIA’S FIRST GAY PARA

In 2012, another attempt has been ma to hold a gay Pri march and ftival the pal cy. But the Prime MInister has nmned the homophobic attus and statements sayg, “They were “unacceptable” and “an excs.

(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’. “Could I tell my mother that I am gay? (image right: “I’m gay and n be anyone; son, brother, father, grandson, iend, your lleague; I n view them”).

I LOVE TIRANA SIGN RERATED AS LGBT FLAG FOR THE GAY PARA

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.

[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.

6TH TIRANA GAY (P)RI WHOUT INCINTS

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. L., a member of the Albanian Gay and Lbian Associatn, ALGA.

TIRANA GAY (P)RI MARCH

ALGA and AHGR have been tryg to brg to the public’s attentn the treatment of homosexuals Albania. Human rights reports on Albania nce that graed attus among the public leave Albanian gays and lbians on the g of society.

Acrdg to AHRG, Albanian homosexuals face “tolerance, physil and psychologil vlence – often om the police – and discrimatn the workplace. (end of Gays Whout Borrs report 2007). (1) A young lbian posted this lament: “I’m 16 years old and gay.

It’s difficult to be openly gay Albania, Tirana ’s a paradise beg gay pared to the other ci of the untry. “When I was 15 one of the guys who I n not name found out that I was gay and he tried to raped me twice wh another guy. If my fay know that I am gay first my brothers would try and kill me and I know I will no longer have a fay.

GAY LIFE ALBANIA IS DETERMED AND COURAGEO; AN INTERVIEW TIRANA

I have a number of gay iends, and each time I vis my untry Kosovo, all of my iends thk is strange to associate wh gays and lbians. Gay Organizatns. Homophobia may be fought and won through rmative work and posive exampl.

GAY-PARADA MBAHET EDHE Në TIRANë

Pk Embassy aims to strengthen the posn of gay muny livg there.

Legal actn: In December 2010, the Deputy Commissn for Labour, Social Affairs and Health, Tran Shehu, clared that “homosexualy should be treated by medil staff as hormonal disorr, as well as psychologil”.

UKRAE HOLDS UNTRY'S LARGT EVER GAY PRI PARA

Shehu should avoid discrimatory remarks the future, which e an atmosphere of tensn and uniendls towards the LGBT [Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr] muny Albania. Gay-Straight Alliance Agast Discrimatn.