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Contents:

• GAY LIFE ALBANIA
• BT GAY IENDLY BAR TIRANA - BUNKER 1944
• GAY LIFE ALBANIA IS DETERMED AND COURAGEO; AN INTERVIEW TIRANA
• GAYLIFE ALBANIA - ALBANIA FOM
• GAY CISG TIRANA
• GAY CISG TIRANA
• GAY CISG SPOTS
• GAY TRAVELLER - ALBANIA FOM
• GAY AREA TIRANA
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS TIRANA REGN
• GAY TIRANA
• GAY STREET TIRANA
• GAY CENTER TIRANA

GAY LIFE ALBANIA

Gay enviroment Tirana.

nsual homosexual relatns first on. you've been told that there's no gay people Albania, well that people. that don't have any gay bar around (b).

BT GAY IENDLY BAR TIRANA - BUNKER 1944

(diss, pubs, snas or movie theaters for gay people) or at least one gay. iendly bar and that is a big problem for the Albanian and foreger gay.

reason the gay people ll the place Tranz which is not a safe area.

GAY LIFE ALBANIA IS DETERMED AND COURAGEO; AN INTERVIEW TIRANA

that homosexualy was punished by the Albanian law wh up to ten years. there have been two gay iendly bars or better say plac where gay. e homoseksual�ve n�.

GAYLIFE ALBANIA - ALBANIA FOM

t� kan� th�n� se n ka homoseksual� n� Shqip�ri, at�her� k�ta.

Homoseksualizmiekziston edhe n� Shqip�ri. th�n� i vetmi ndoshta) i cili n ka nj� bar gay p�rreth (b).

apo kema p�r gay) ose t� pakt�n nj� lokal miq�sor p�r gay dhe ky. �sht� nj� problem p�r p�r homoseksual�t Shqiptar� apo ata t� huaj. P�r k�t� arsye homoseksual�t e th�rras parkun me emr.

GAY CISG TIRANA

takosh homoseksual� de dur t� gjh� problemet e koh�s se shkuar(c). k�saj date homoseksualizmi d�nohej. thuhet ose ka pasur dy lokale shum� t� ekuentuara nga homoseksual�t.

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.

GAY CISG TIRANA

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.

GAY CISG SPOTS

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’.

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“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”).

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.

GAY AREA TIRANA

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. 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. 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).

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS TIRANA REGN

(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. 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.

GAY TIRANA

Homophobia may be fought and won through rmative work and posive exampl.

GAY STREET TIRANA

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

GAY CENTER TIRANA

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”.

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. Gay-Straight Alliance Agast Discrimatn is an Albanian non-ernmental anizatn that envisns a ee, open and equal Albanian society that embrac diversy and is clive of people of all sexual orientatns and genr inti.

To achieve this visn, Alean striv to support and empower a visible and clive lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr muny while creasg public unrstandg, tn, and awarens of issu of sexual orientatn and genr inty. The onle group participants are people who are livg both si and outsi Albania, are gay and straight, many of whom may never e to a formal meetg of the anizatn, but all of whom support the ia of an Albania where all people, regardls of sexual orientatn or genr inty, n live eely. Alean’s first llaborative events were the activi surroundg the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia 2009.