Gay Life Albania

Contents:

• GAY LIFE ALBANIA
• MACHO-MD ALBANIA TO BREAK GAY MARRIAGE TABOO
• THE APPROACH TOWARDS GAY MARRIAGE THE ALBANIAN LEGISLATN AND SOCIETY
• THE APPROACH TOWARDS GAY MARRIAGE THE ALBANIAN LEGISLATN AND SOCIETY
• ALBANIA 'TO APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE'
• ALBANIAN GAYS WELE PM'S SAME-SEX MARRIAGE PLAN
• ALBANIA BE THIRD EUROPEAN UNTRY TO BAN GAY ‘NVERSN THERAPY’
• GAY LIFE ALBANIA

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. HistoryHomosexual activy Albania?

Homosexual activy Albania is legal. Gay marriage pendg.

Required legalizatn of gay marriage unr 2018 EU lg. 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?

MACHO-MD ALBANIA TO BREAK GAY MARRIAGE TABOO

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. In 2012, another attempt has been ma to hold a gay Pri march and ftival the pal cy.

THE APPROACH TOWARDS GAY MARRIAGE THE ALBANIAN LEGISLATN AND SOCIETY

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?

THE APPROACH TOWARDS GAY MARRIAGE THE ALBANIAN LEGISLATN AND SOCIETY

(image right: “I’m gay and n be anyone; son, brother, father, grandson, iend, your lleague; I n view them”). 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.

ALBANIA 'TO APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE'

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.

ALBANIAN GAYS WELE PM'S SAME-SEX MARRIAGE PLAN

[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.

ALBANIA BE THIRD EUROPEAN UNTRY TO BAN GAY ‘NVERSN THERAPY’

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. 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.

GAY LIFE ALBANIA

(end of Gays Whout Borrs report 2007).