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• WHY THE TY ISLAND OF MALTA HAS EUROPE'S MOST PROGRSIVE GAY RIGHTS
• HERE'S HOW MALTA IS LEADG THE WAY FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS EUROPE GAY PRI PARA | © GUILAME PMIER / FLICKR NILA COLLS 01 AUGT 2018 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT FOR SUCH A SMALL ISLAND, OVER THE YEARS MALTA HAS ACCUMULATED IMPRSIVE STATISTICS AND A NUMBER OF TL UNR S BELT REGARDG S STANCE ON LGBTQ RIGHTS. MOST RECENTLY, THE ISLANDS OF MALTA WERE PLACED TOP POSN ON THE RABOW EUROPE MAP AND INX FOR THE THIRD YEAR A ROW. CHECK OUT HOW MALTA REMAS AT THE FOREONT OF GAY-IENDLY UNTRI ACROSS EUROPE THAT NTUE TO STRIVE FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS. VIEW ALL TRIPS RABOW EUROPE MAP AND INX REMAG THE TOP SPOT FOR 2018, MALTA HAS MANAGED TO GA A STAGGERG 91% (PARED TO LAST YEAR’S 88%) THE CRERIA, AS SET OUT BY ILGA-EUROPE’S RABOW EUROPE MAP AND INX. A GOOD PERCENTAGE AHEAD OF SEND-PLACED BELGIUM (78%) AND THIRD-PLACED NORWAY (77%), MALTA ACHIEVED EXCELLENT RULTS A NUMBER OF CRERIA, MAKG EUROPE’S NUMBER-ONE LOTN FOR LGBTQ TRAVELERS FOR THE THIRD YEAR NNG. ALTHOUGH RETAG FIRST PLACE, THE SRE CREASE PARED TO LAST YEAR ULD HAVE ONLY BEEN AID BY THE PASSG OF THE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LEGISLATN. THE NTUED WORK THIS AREA HAS PROVEN EXTREMELY SUCCSFUL. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP ECUADOR SPA THAILAND CROATIA JAPAN INDIA GREECE MOROC TURKEY BALI SOUTH AI ICELAND EGYPT MEXI IN 2006, STATISTICS SHOWED THAT ONLY A MERE 18% OF MALTE PEOPLE WERE FAVOR OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE; TEN YEARS LATER, THIS FIGURE HAD RISEN TO 65%. VOTED FOR ALMOST UNANIMOLY AT PARLIAMENT JULY 2017, THE LEGISLATN ME TO EFFECT TWO MONTHS LATER, WH THE FIRST OF THE ISLAND’S SAME-SEX MARRIAG TAKG PLACE BY THE END OF THAT SAME YEAR. GAY PARA | © SATYAPREM / PIXABAY THE MALTE ERNMENT ALSO MA ANOTHER HUGE STEP SUPPORT OF LGBTQ RIGHTS BY TRODUCG THE NON-BARY “X” GENR AS AN OPTN ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTATN AND, FOLLOWG UP ON THIS, IS PRENTLY LOOKG TO THE POSSIBILY OF GENR-NTRAL PASSPORTS AND INTY RDS, WHICH ARE HELD BY ALL RINTS. EDINBURGH AND THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS BY TRAIN TRAVERSE STLAND’S MOST SCENIC LANDSP, OM WT AST TO EAST, TRAVELLG BY RAIL VIEW TRIP CRERIA, AS SET OUT BY RABOW EUROPE, FALL TO SIX TEGORI, WH EACH TEGORY HAVG MULTIPLE SUB-SECTNS THAT EACH OF THE 49 EUROPEAN UNTRI VOLVED IS ASSSED ON. THE SIX TEGORI VER EQUALY AND NON-DISCRIMATN, FAY, HATE CRIME AND HATE SPEECH, LEGAL GENR REGNN AND BODILY INTEGRY, CIVIL SOCIETY SPACE, AND ASYLUM. MALTA SECURED TOP POSN BY GAG 100% THREE OF THE TEGORI (CIVIL SOCIETY SPACE, HATE CRIME AND HATE SPEECH, AND LEGAL GENR REGNN AND BODILY INTEGRY). ONGOG SUPPORT IN CELEBRATN OF MALTA’S NUMBER-ONE SLOT, PRIME MISTER JOSEPH MT TOOK TO TWTER TO SHARE THE NEWS WH HIS 62,000 FOLLOWERS. A STNCH SUPPORTER AND ADVOTE OF LGBTQ RIGHTS, MT SAID, “CHANG THE LAW ARE NOT ENOUGH FOR PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT GENRS TO FEEL ACCEPTED BY SOCIETY.” IT WOULDN’T BE TOO BOLD TO SAY THAT, OVER THE G YEARS, EVEN MORE POSIVE CHANG ARE AFOOT FOR MALTA. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. - EMBED - WH REGARDS TO TN, MALTE SCHOOLS ARE, APPEARS, LEAPS AND BOUNDS AHEAD OF MANY OF THE OTHER UNTRI FALLG UNR THE RABOW EUROPE UMBRELLA. ACRDG TO A RECENT LGBTIQ INCLIVE EDUTN REPORT, “ALL YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO TN, BUT REARCH SHOWS THAT THIS IS STILL FAR OM BEG A REALY FOR MANY LGBTQ LEARNERS. WE FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT THE LGBTQ EDUTN INX AND REPORT N PLAY A VAL ROLE CHANGG THIS.” IN 2015, THE MALTE ERNMENT LNCHED A SPECIFIC TNAL POLICY FOCG SPECIFILLY ON THE NEEDS OF TRANS, GENR-VARIANT AND TERSEX CHILDREN, BEG A ROLE MOL FOR THE S EUROPEAN NEIGHBORS. THE GENR INTY, GENR EXPRSN AND SEX CHARACTERISTICS ACT LEGISLATN IS NOW A MT-FOLLOW FOR ALL MALTE SCHOOLS. THE SAME REPORT, UNFORTUNATELY, REVEALED THAT UNTRI SUCH AS LATVIA, MACEDONIA AND POLAND HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHG PLACE WH REGARDS TO TN, TH SRG THEM A VERY POOR ZERO OUT OF A POSSIBLE TEN. MALTA PRI WEEK ALSO GOG OM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH WH GREAT MOMENTUM IS MALTA’S ANNUAL PRI WEEK. SEPTEMBER SE SEVEN DAYS PACKED WH EVENTS AND CELEBRATNS, ADDN TO THE SPECTACULAR PARA THAT TAK PLACE THROUGH THE STREETS OF THIS YEAR’S EUROPEAN CAPAL OF CULTURE. NOW TO S 15TH YEAR, 2018’S MALTA PRI WILL BE A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WH, HOPG TO BEAT LAST YEAR’S RERD TURN OUT OF OVER 2,000 PEOPLE, WHO TOOK TO VALLETTA‘S ST GEE’S SQUARE. INRPORATG MALTA’S MISSN TO BEE GREENER, THE PRI EVENT PROMOT RECYCLG, FORBIDS THE RELEASE OF BALLOONS (WHICH TURN N HARM SEA LIFE) AND HIGHLY ENURAG THE MAGNIFICENT PARA FLOATS TO BE MA OF AS MANY RECYCLED MATERIALS AS POSSIBLE. PRI PARA | © RIHAIJ / PIXABAY ALLIED RABOW COMMUNI ALLIED RABOW COMMUNI (ARC) WAS TABLISHED MALTA 2015 AND IS A MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN PRI ORGANISERS ASSOCIATN. SCE S CEPTN, THE REGISTERED VOLUNTARY ANISATN’S WORK CLUS A FULL LENDAR OF EVENTS FOCG PREDOMANTLY ON PRI, HEALTH, COMMUNITN AND SOCIAL ACTIVI, AND PENNT ON PUBLIC DONATNS AND FUNDRAISG. KEEPG UP TO DATE WH EVENTS TAKG PLACE ISLAND-WI, ALLIED RABOW COMMUNI ARE WORTH CHECKG OUT. RABOW LOVE | © GAGNONM1993 / PIXABAY VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?
• MALTA LEADS EUROPE – AND THE WORLD – GAY RIGHTS
• MALTA LEADS THE WAY FOR GAY AND TRANSGENR RIGHTS EUROPE
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
• RON DESANTIS'S FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN: HEY, WHAT ABOUT THE “PERSONAL BENEF” OF BEG A SLAVE?FLORIDA’S NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS WILL FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY.BY ERIC LUTZJULY 20, 2023RON DESANTIS SPEAKS DURG A MPAIGN EVENT IOWA JULY 14.RACHEL MUMMEY/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVERON DESANTIS’S WAR ON “WOKENS” SCHOOLS ASCEND TO DANGERO NEW HEIGHTS WEDNDAY, AS FLORIDA’S STATE BOARD OF EDUTN APPROVED NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS THAT, AMONG OTHER THGS, WOULD FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY — A WHEWASHG OF HISTORY THAT THE STATE’S LARGT TEACHERS UNN CRIED AS A “BIG STEP BACKWARD” FOR TN.“GOV. DESANTIS IS PURSUG A POLIL AGENDA GUARANTEED TO SET GOOD PEOPLE AGAST ONE ANOTHER, AND THE PROCS HE’S CHEATG OUR KIDS,” ANDREW SPAR, PRINT OF THE FLORIDA EDUTN ASSOCIATN, SAID A STATEMENT BLASTG THE NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI STANDARDS. “THEY SERVE THE FULL TTH OF AMERIN HISTORY, THE GOOD AND THE BAD.”FLORIDA PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS MAY NOT GET THAT UNR THE NEW L APPROVED WEDNDAY, WHICH REQUIRE TEACHERS— A SECTN ON SLAVERY— TO NOTE THAT “SLAV VELOPED SKILLS, WHICH, SOME STANC, ULD BE APPLIED FOR THEIR PERSONAL BENEF.” IN A SECTN ON “RENSTCTN AND BEYOND,” A PERD MARKED BY JIM CROW AND ROUTE WHE TERRORISM ON BLACK MUNI, THE NEW L DICTATE THAT STUNTS MT BE TGHT ABOUT “ACTS OF VLENCE PERPETRATED AGAST AND BY AIN AMERINS,” WHICH, AS DEMOCRATIC STATE SENATOR GERALDE THOMPSON POTED OUT, SUGGTS CINTS LIKE THE OEE MASSACRE WERE “SPARKED BY VLENCE OM AIN AMERINS.”“THAT’S BLAMG THE VICTIMS,” SAID THOMPSON, WHO, AS THE WASHGTON POST NOT, HELPED PASS A 2020 LAW REQUIRG FLORIDA SCHOOLS TO TEACH ABOUT THE 1920 MASSACRE, WHICH A WHE MOB KILLED DOZENS OF BLACK RINTS OF OEE, FLORIDA, ELECTN DAY VLENCE. (MANNY DIAZ, FLORIDA'S TN MISSNER, PRAISED THE CHANG, SAYG THAT “THIS IS SOMETHG THAT IS GOG TO SET THE NORM FOR STANDARDS OTHER STAT.”)X NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.THE NEW STANDARDS E AS DESANTIS, A NTENR FOR THE 2024 REPUBLIN NOMATN, LAT HIS WAR ON SO-LLED “WOKE” TN, WHICH HAS CLUD BOOK BANS, THE REJECTN OF AN ADVANCED PLACEMENT URSE ON AIN AMERIN STUDI, AND THE PASSAGE OF THE STOP WOKE ACT, WHICH PROHIBS THE STCTN OF MATERIAL THAT ULD MAKE SOMEONE FEEL “GUILT, ANGUISH OR ANY FORM OF PSYCHOLOGIL STRS.” HIS NCERN FOR THE POSSIBLE “ANGUISH” OF FLORIDA STUNTS DO NOT SEEM TO EXTEND TO BLACK STUNTS, WHO ULD BE FORCED TO LEARN ABOUT THE SUPPOSED “BENEF” OF SLAVERY, NOR DO SEEM TO EXTEND TO LGBTQ KIDS AND THEIR FAI, WHO HAVE ALSO BEEN TARGETED HIS BATTLE. DESANTIS EXPAND HIS “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW THIS YEAR, AND THE FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN VOTED WEDNDAY FOR L THAT TOOK EVEN FURTHER — CLUDG BY BARRG TEACHERS OM ASKG STUNTS THEIR PREFERRED PRONOUNS. DIAZ SAID THE MOVE WOULD PROTECT KIDS OM “UNWELE FLUENC AND DOCTRATN," PRAISG DESANTIS, THE LEGISLATN, AND THE BOARD FOR WHAT HE SCRIBED A STATEMENT AS THEIR “UNWAVERG MMENT TO THE HEALTH, WELLBEG AND SAFETY OF OUR STUNTS.” BUT, AS CRICS CHARGED, THE L NSTUTED AN LATN THE “POLILLY-MOTIVATED WAR ON PARENTS, STUNTS, AND TORS” FLORIDA. “OUR STUNTS SERVE CLASSROOMS WHERE ALL FAI ARE TREATED WH THE RPECT THEY SERVE AND ALL YOUNG PEOPLE ARE WELED,” JENNIFER SOLOMON, EQUALY FLORIDA PARENTS & FAI SUPPORT MANAGER, SAID A STATEMENT WEDNDAY. “INSTEAD, THE DESANTIS ADMISTRATN NTU TO WIELD THE STATE AGAST .”“STOP TURNG OUR KIDS’ CLASSROOMS TO POLIL BATTLEFIELDS TO SRE CHEAP POTS,” SOLOMON NTUED.BUT DESANTIS, OF URSE, SHOWS NO SIGN OF STOPPG: HIS RELENTLS CULTURE WAR HELPED LIFT HIM TO NATNAL PROMENCE, AND HE HAS MA HIS CENTRAL — NAY, HIS ONLY — PCH TO GOP VOTERS HIS SPUTTERG PRINTIAL MPAIGN. “WE’VE MA THE STATE OF FLORIDA THE PLACE WHERE WOKE GO TO DIE,” HE SAID AT A RECENT MPAIGN EVENT. “AND NOW, IS OUR MISSN AS AMERINS TO ENSURE THAT JANUARY 2025…WE LEAVE WOKE IOLOGY THE DTB OF HISTORY WHERE BELONGS.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRHOW FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE REALYEXCLIVE NEW DETAILS ABOUT MEGHAN MARKLE’S WEDDG DRSA BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF EVERYTHG HAPPENG AT THIS FALL’S FILM FTIVALS—WHOUT THE STARSA SER SETBACK FOR TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELFMEET KYLE DCHANEL, THE PRETEND PLAYBOY WHO SEEMS TO HAVE FOOLED HALF OF MANHATTANTHE ULTIMATE GUI TO FALL MOVIFROM THE ARCHIVE: A FATHER’S ACUNT OF THE TRIAL OF HIS DGHTER’S KILLEREND-OF-SUMMER SALE! TAKE 25% OFF AT THE VF SHOPMOST POPULARPRCE HARRY AND MEGAN MARKLE H BEYONCE SHOW IN LABY EVE BATEYJENNA ORTEGA REILS AT JOHNNY DEPP DATG RUMORS BY EVE BATEYKYLE DCHANEL, THE ROTHSCHILD WHO WASN’TBY NATE FREEMANERIC LUTZ

WHY THE TY ISLAND OF MALTA HAS EUROPE'S MOST PROGRSIVE GAY RIGHTS

Malta has e a long way a short amount of time - om the crimalisatn of homosexualy 1973 to enablg same-sex civil unns 2017. By 2015, Malta earned a historic first place the Internatnal Lbian-Gay Associatn’s Rabow Europe’s League for LGBT Rights by grantg 88 per cent of total rights. In 2006, a mere 18 per cent of the Malte populatn were favour of same-sex marriage, while a poll 2016 monstrated that 65 per cent were then , while the tolerance is there and creasg by the year, many lol gay upl still feel disfort openly displayg affectn & clubsSce gay rights and acceptance has creased recent years, the dited gay bar and club scene has actually thned out.

HERE'S HOW MALTA IS LEADG THE WAY FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS EUROPE GAY PRI PARA | © GUILAME PMIER / FLICKR NILA COLLS 01 AUGT 2018 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT FOR SUCH A SMALL ISLAND, OVER THE YEARS MALTA HAS ACCUMULATED IMPRSIVE STATISTICS AND A NUMBER OF TL UNR S BELT REGARDG S STANCE ON LGBTQ RIGHTS. MOST RECENTLY, THE ISLANDS OF MALTA WERE PLACED TOP POSN ON THE RABOW EUROPE MAP AND INX FOR THE THIRD YEAR A ROW. CHECK OUT HOW MALTA REMAS AT THE FOREONT OF GAY-IENDLY UNTRI ACROSS EUROPE THAT NTUE TO STRIVE FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS. VIEW ALL TRIPS RABOW EUROPE MAP AND INX REMAG THE TOP SPOT FOR 2018, MALTA HAS MANAGED TO GA A STAGGERG 91% (PARED TO LAST YEAR’S 88%) THE CRERIA, AS SET OUT BY ILGA-EUROPE’S RABOW EUROPE MAP AND INX. A GOOD PERCENTAGE AHEAD OF SEND-PLACED BELGIUM (78%) AND THIRD-PLACED NORWAY (77%), MALTA ACHIEVED EXCELLENT RULTS A NUMBER OF CRERIA, MAKG EUROPE’S NUMBER-ONE LOTN FOR LGBTQ TRAVELERS FOR THE THIRD YEAR NNG. ALTHOUGH RETAG FIRST PLACE, THE SRE CREASE PARED TO LAST YEAR ULD HAVE ONLY BEEN AID BY THE PASSG OF THE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LEGISLATN. THE NTUED WORK THIS AREA HAS PROVEN EXTREMELY SUCCSFUL. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP ECUADOR SPA THAILAND CROATIA JAPAN INDIA GREECE MOROC TURKEY BALI SOUTH AI ICELAND EGYPT MEXI IN 2006, STATISTICS SHOWED THAT ONLY A MERE 18% OF MALTE PEOPLE WERE FAVOR OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE; TEN YEARS LATER, THIS FIGURE HAD RISEN TO 65%. VOTED FOR ALMOST UNANIMOLY AT PARLIAMENT JULY 2017, THE LEGISLATN ME TO EFFECT TWO MONTHS LATER, WH THE FIRST OF THE ISLAND’S SAME-SEX MARRIAG TAKG PLACE BY THE END OF THAT SAME YEAR. GAY PARA | © SATYAPREM / PIXABAY THE MALTE ERNMENT ALSO MA ANOTHER HUGE STEP SUPPORT OF LGBTQ RIGHTS BY TRODUCG THE NON-BARY “X” GENR AS AN OPTN ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTATN AND, FOLLOWG UP ON THIS, IS PRENTLY LOOKG TO THE POSSIBILY OF GENR-NTRAL PASSPORTS AND INTY RDS, WHICH ARE HELD BY ALL RINTS. EDINBURGH AND THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS BY TRAIN TRAVERSE STLAND’S MOST SCENIC LANDSP, OM WT AST TO EAST, TRAVELLG BY RAIL VIEW TRIP CRERIA, AS SET OUT BY RABOW EUROPE, FALL TO SIX TEGORI, WH EACH TEGORY HAVG MULTIPLE SUB-SECTNS THAT EACH OF THE 49 EUROPEAN UNTRI VOLVED IS ASSSED ON. THE SIX TEGORI VER EQUALY AND NON-DISCRIMATN, FAY, HATE CRIME AND HATE SPEECH, LEGAL GENR REGNN AND BODILY INTEGRY, CIVIL SOCIETY SPACE, AND ASYLUM. MALTA SECURED TOP POSN BY GAG 100% THREE OF THE TEGORI (CIVIL SOCIETY SPACE, HATE CRIME AND HATE SPEECH, AND LEGAL GENR REGNN AND BODILY INTEGRY). ONGOG SUPPORT IN CELEBRATN OF MALTA’S NUMBER-ONE SLOT, PRIME MISTER JOSEPH MT TOOK TO TWTER TO SHARE THE NEWS WH HIS 62,000 FOLLOWERS. A STNCH SUPPORTER AND ADVOTE OF LGBTQ RIGHTS, MT SAID, “CHANG THE LAW ARE NOT ENOUGH FOR PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT GENRS TO FEEL ACCEPTED BY SOCIETY.” IT WOULDN’T BE TOO BOLD TO SAY THAT, OVER THE G YEARS, EVEN MORE POSIVE CHANG ARE AFOOT FOR MALTA. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. - EMBED - WH REGARDS TO TN, MALTE SCHOOLS ARE, APPEARS, LEAPS AND BOUNDS AHEAD OF MANY OF THE OTHER UNTRI FALLG UNR THE RABOW EUROPE UMBRELLA. ACRDG TO A RECENT LGBTIQ INCLIVE EDUTN REPORT, “ALL YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO TN, BUT REARCH SHOWS THAT THIS IS STILL FAR OM BEG A REALY FOR MANY LGBTQ LEARNERS. WE FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT THE LGBTQ EDUTN INX AND REPORT N PLAY A VAL ROLE CHANGG THIS.” IN 2015, THE MALTE ERNMENT LNCHED A SPECIFIC TNAL POLICY FOCG SPECIFILLY ON THE NEEDS OF TRANS, GENR-VARIANT AND TERSEX CHILDREN, BEG A ROLE MOL FOR THE S EUROPEAN NEIGHBORS. THE GENR INTY, GENR EXPRSN AND SEX CHARACTERISTICS ACT LEGISLATN IS NOW A MT-FOLLOW FOR ALL MALTE SCHOOLS. THE SAME REPORT, UNFORTUNATELY, REVEALED THAT UNTRI SUCH AS LATVIA, MACEDONIA AND POLAND HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHG PLACE WH REGARDS TO TN, TH SRG THEM A VERY POOR ZERO OUT OF A POSSIBLE TEN. MALTA PRI WEEK ALSO GOG OM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH WH GREAT MOMENTUM IS MALTA’S ANNUAL PRI WEEK. SEPTEMBER SE SEVEN DAYS PACKED WH EVENTS AND CELEBRATNS, ADDN TO THE SPECTACULAR PARA THAT TAK PLACE THROUGH THE STREETS OF THIS YEAR’S EUROPEAN CAPAL OF CULTURE. NOW TO S 15TH YEAR, 2018’S MALTA PRI WILL BE A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WH, HOPG TO BEAT LAST YEAR’S RERD TURN OUT OF OVER 2,000 PEOPLE, WHO TOOK TO VALLETTA‘S ST GEE’S SQUARE. INRPORATG MALTA’S MISSN TO BEE GREENER, THE PRI EVENT PROMOT RECYCLG, FORBIDS THE RELEASE OF BALLOONS (WHICH TURN N HARM SEA LIFE) AND HIGHLY ENURAG THE MAGNIFICENT PARA FLOATS TO BE MA OF AS MANY RECYCLED MATERIALS AS POSSIBLE. PRI PARA | © RIHAIJ / PIXABAY ALLIED RABOW COMMUNI ALLIED RABOW COMMUNI (ARC) WAS TABLISHED MALTA 2015 AND IS A MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN PRI ORGANISERS ASSOCIATN. SCE S CEPTN, THE REGISTERED VOLUNTARY ANISATN’S WORK CLUS A FULL LENDAR OF EVENTS FOCG PREDOMANTLY ON PRI, HEALTH, COMMUNITN AND SOCIAL ACTIVI, AND PENNT ON PUBLIC DONATNS AND FUNDRAISG. KEEPG UP TO DATE WH EVENTS TAKG PLACE ISLAND-WI, ALLIED RABOW COMMUNI ARE WORTH CHECKG OUT. RABOW LOVE | © GAGNONM1993 / PIXABAY VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?

Statn2Statn (S2S), Lollipop & BeatBears prent are among Malta’s leadg gay party and event anisers, workg on creatg a vibrant sense of muny Malta. Dedited LGBT bars & clubs:Michelangelo Club Lounge, PacevilleMichelangelo Lounge is the latt gay club, spread out over two levels, featurg a state-of-the-art sound system, wh a dance floor, lounge bar, chill-out zone and private areas.

Gettg marriedNow that gay marriage Malta is, to all effects and purpos, the same as marriage between a man and a woman, the island is an easy and attractive weddg statn.

While there are specific weddg planners and terers who specialise gay marriage and lbian weddgs Malta, virtually everyone will be happy to assist whout problems.

MALTA LEADS EUROPE – AND THE WORLD – GAY RIGHTS

HistoryHomosexual activy Malta? Homosexual activy Malta is legal. Current statSce Jan 29, 1973Legal In 1973, homosexualy was crimalized Malta by the Prime Mister, Dom marriage Malta?

Current statSce Sep 1, 2022Legal Sce September 2022, gay and bisexual men n legally donate blood wh Malta after the same fferal perd as heterosexual (1-year ferral)MSMs n now donate blood, but wh a 1-year ferral. Yet Malta is ranked number one the ILGA-Europe (Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn) rankg of all 49 untri Europe terms of their rpect of human rights and equaly. “Life has changed a lot for gay people Malta over the past two years, ” says Rsell Sammut, a Malte cizen who ns, part of the Allied Rabow Communi nonprof anizatn.

” Sammut, 31, who me out aged 16 and says he’s never had any “major issu” terms of homophobia Malta, thks the new bill sends an important msage to Malte cizens. “The clear msage om the state is that if you’re gay that’s fe and there’s nothg you should be gettg cured of, ” he says. A left-wg, LGBTQ-md ernment is not the only reason why Malta is pavg the way for gay rights Europe.

MALTA LEADS THE WAY FOR GAY AND TRANSGENR RIGHTS EUROPE

Boris Dtrich, advocy director of Human Rights Watch’s Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Rights Program, believ Malta’s gag of E. ” However, while Malta has been regnized for s more progrsive polici on gay rights, some rpects is still very nservative. Roughly six months ago due to what she lls “severe transphobia” there, do not thk the island where her parents grew up is as supportive and open towards trans rights as is towards gay rights.

Malta Gay Rights Movement: 20 MAR 03. On 23 Febary 2019, the Malta Chamber of Psychologists said a statement that homosexualy is not a pathology, mental anomaly nor psychologil disorr [R1. On 07 December 2016, was reported that the parliament voted unanimoly to ban gay nversn therapy, beg the first European untry to do so.

If the Bill pass the third readg the Parliament, gay nversn therapy will bee unlawful and persons who attempt to change, reprs or elimate a person’s sexual orientatn may be fed between €1, 000 and €5, 000 or imprisoned for a term of five months, profsnals may be fed between €2, 000 and €10, 000 or imprisonment of up to a year [L1.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

TimOfMalta: Homosexualy is no psychologil disorr, psychologists sist 23 FEB 19.

BBCnews: Malta bans ‘gay cure’ nversn therapy 07 DEC 16.

MaltaToday: Malta set to ban gay nversn therapy as Bill pass fal hurdle 21 NOV 16.

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT

GayStarNews: Malta now has one of the bt trans and tersex laws the world 02 APR 15. While the wordg of the act is clive of gay and sgle men, practice the fact that surrogacy remas illegal means they nnot benef [R1. On 31 July 2012, the MGRM said that the Embryo Protectn Act is blatantly discrimatory on the basis of sexual orientatn and is herently homophobic nature.

PkNews: Malta: Law rtrictg IVF to oppose-sex upl slammed as ‘unashamedly homophobic’ 06 SEP 13. MaltaStar: MGRM: IVF bill discrimat agast gays 31 JUL 12.

On 24 November 2013, the Refugee Appeals Board was reported to have granted an 18-year-old Nigerian man asylum followg anti-gay persecutn his untry, protectg him om imprisonment and possible ath by stong or floggg.

RON DESANTIS'S FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN: HEY, WHAT ABOUT THE “PERSONAL BENEF” OF BEG A SLAVE?FLORIDA’S NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS WILL FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY.BY ERIC LUTZJULY 20, 2023RON DESANTIS SPEAKS DURG A MPAIGN EVENT IOWA JULY 14.RACHEL MUMMEY/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVERON DESANTIS’S WAR ON “WOKENS” SCHOOLS ASCEND TO DANGERO NEW HEIGHTS WEDNDAY, AS FLORIDA’S STATE BOARD OF EDUTN APPROVED NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS THAT, AMONG OTHER THGS, WOULD FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY — A WHEWASHG OF HISTORY THAT THE STATE’S LARGT TEACHERS UNN CRIED AS A “BIG STEP BACKWARD” FOR TN.“GOV. DESANTIS IS PURSUG A POLIL AGENDA GUARANTEED TO SET GOOD PEOPLE AGAST ONE ANOTHER, AND THE PROCS HE’S CHEATG OUR KIDS,” ANDREW SPAR, PRINT OF THE FLORIDA EDUTN ASSOCIATN, SAID A STATEMENT BLASTG THE NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI STANDARDS. “THEY SERVE THE FULL TTH OF AMERIN HISTORY, THE GOOD AND THE BAD.”FLORIDA PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS MAY NOT GET THAT UNR THE NEW L APPROVED WEDNDAY, WHICH REQUIRE TEACHERS— A SECTN ON SLAVERY— TO NOTE THAT “SLAV VELOPED SKILLS, WHICH, SOME STANC, ULD BE APPLIED FOR THEIR PERSONAL BENEF.” IN A SECTN ON “RENSTCTN AND BEYOND,” A PERD MARKED BY JIM CROW AND ROUTE WHE TERRORISM ON BLACK MUNI, THE NEW L DICTATE THAT STUNTS MT BE TGHT ABOUT “ACTS OF VLENCE PERPETRATED AGAST AND BY AIN AMERINS,” WHICH, AS DEMOCRATIC STATE SENATOR GERALDE THOMPSON POTED OUT, SUGGTS CINTS LIKE THE OEE MASSACRE WERE “SPARKED BY VLENCE OM AIN AMERINS.”“THAT’S BLAMG THE VICTIMS,” SAID THOMPSON, WHO, AS THE WASHGTON POST NOT, HELPED PASS A 2020 LAW REQUIRG FLORIDA SCHOOLS TO TEACH ABOUT THE 1920 MASSACRE, WHICH A WHE MOB KILLED DOZENS OF BLACK RINTS OF OEE, FLORIDA, ELECTN DAY VLENCE. (MANNY DIAZ, FLORIDA'S TN MISSNER, PRAISED THE CHANG, SAYG THAT “THIS IS SOMETHG THAT IS GOG TO SET THE NORM FOR STANDARDS OTHER STAT.”)X NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.THE NEW STANDARDS E AS DESANTIS, A NTENR FOR THE 2024 REPUBLIN NOMATN, LAT HIS WAR ON SO-LLED “WOKE” TN, WHICH HAS CLUD BOOK BANS, THE REJECTN OF AN ADVANCED PLACEMENT URSE ON AIN AMERIN STUDI, AND THE PASSAGE OF THE STOP WOKE ACT, WHICH PROHIBS THE STCTN OF MATERIAL THAT ULD MAKE SOMEONE FEEL “GUILT, ANGUISH OR ANY FORM OF PSYCHOLOGIL STRS.” HIS NCERN FOR THE POSSIBLE “ANGUISH” OF FLORIDA STUNTS DO NOT SEEM TO EXTEND TO BLACK STUNTS, WHO ULD BE FORCED TO LEARN ABOUT THE SUPPOSED “BENEF” OF SLAVERY, NOR DO SEEM TO EXTEND TO LGBTQ KIDS AND THEIR FAI, WHO HAVE ALSO BEEN TARGETED HIS BATTLE. DESANTIS EXPAND HIS “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW THIS YEAR, AND THE FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN VOTED WEDNDAY FOR L THAT TOOK EVEN FURTHER — CLUDG BY BARRG TEACHERS OM ASKG STUNTS THEIR PREFERRED PRONOUNS. DIAZ SAID THE MOVE WOULD PROTECT KIDS OM “UNWELE FLUENC AND DOCTRATN," PRAISG DESANTIS, THE LEGISLATN, AND THE BOARD FOR WHAT HE SCRIBED A STATEMENT AS THEIR “UNWAVERG MMENT TO THE HEALTH, WELLBEG AND SAFETY OF OUR STUNTS.” BUT, AS CRICS CHARGED, THE L NSTUTED AN LATN THE “POLILLY-MOTIVATED WAR ON PARENTS, STUNTS, AND TORS” FLORIDA. “OUR STUNTS SERVE CLASSROOMS WHERE ALL FAI ARE TREATED WH THE RPECT THEY SERVE AND ALL YOUNG PEOPLE ARE WELED,” JENNIFER SOLOMON, EQUALY FLORIDA PARENTS & FAI SUPPORT MANAGER, SAID A STATEMENT WEDNDAY. “INSTEAD, THE DESANTIS ADMISTRATN NTU TO WIELD THE STATE AGAST .”“STOP TURNG OUR KIDS’ CLASSROOMS TO POLIL BATTLEFIELDS TO SRE CHEAP POTS,” SOLOMON NTUED.BUT DESANTIS, OF URSE, SHOWS NO SIGN OF STOPPG: HIS RELENTLS CULTURE WAR HELPED LIFT HIM TO NATNAL PROMENCE, AND HE HAS MA HIS CENTRAL — NAY, HIS ONLY — PCH TO GOP VOTERS HIS SPUTTERG PRINTIAL MPAIGN. “WE’VE MA THE STATE OF FLORIDA THE PLACE WHERE WOKE GO TO DIE,” HE SAID AT A RECENT MPAIGN EVENT. “AND NOW, IS OUR MISSN AS AMERINS TO ENSURE THAT JANUARY 2025…WE LEAVE WOKE IOLOGY THE DTB OF HISTORY WHERE BELONGS.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRHOW FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE REALYEXCLIVE NEW DETAILS ABOUT MEGHAN MARKLE’S WEDDG DRSA BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF EVERYTHG HAPPENG AT THIS FALL’S FILM FTIVALS—WHOUT THE STARSA SER SETBACK FOR TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELFMEET KYLE DCHANEL, THE PRETEND PLAYBOY WHO SEEMS TO HAVE FOOLED HALF OF MANHATTANTHE ULTIMATE GUI TO FALL MOVIFROM THE ARCHIVE: A FATHER’S ACUNT OF THE TRIAL OF HIS DGHTER’S KILLEREND-OF-SUMMER SALE! TAKE 25% OFF AT THE VF SHOPMOST POPULARPRCE HARRY AND MEGAN MARKLE H BEYONCE SHOW IN LABY EVE BATEYJENNA ORTEGA REILS AT JOHNNY DEPP DATG RUMORS BY EVE BATEYKYLE DCHANEL, THE ROTHSCHILD WHO WASN’TBY NATE FREEMANERIC LUTZ

PkNews: 18-year-old Nigerian man granted asylum Malta followg anti-gay persecutn 24 NOV 13.