Everythg you need to know to plan your trip to gay Albania cludg safety tips and unmissable sights for LGBTQ+ travelers!
Contents:
- GAY LIFE ALBANIA
- HANGG OUT GAY ALBANIA – THE NOMADIC BOYS
- GAY LIFE ALBANIA IS DETERMED AND COURAGEO; AN INTERVIEW TIRANA
- HISTORI GAY
- ALBANIA GAY TRAVEL
- IN POWERFUL REBE OF HATE, JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY G OUT AS GAY
GAY LIFE ALBANIA
Albania has approved an all clive anti-discrimatn law 2010. But gays still face tolerance, physil and psychologil vlence. * gay albania histori *
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.
HANGG OUT GAY ALBANIA – THE NOMADIC BOYS
* gay albania histori *
In 2012, another attempt has been ma to hold a gay Pri march and ftival the pal cy.
GAY LIFE ALBANIA IS DETERMED AND COURAGEO; AN INTERVIEW TIRANA
Gay Albanian activists offer support to young gays. Two LGBT rights and equaly groups ph open the envelop of tolerance. * gay albania histori *
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”).
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.
HISTORI GAY
Albania’s emerald and sapphire water, geo astal ci, Ottoman s and towerg mounta rang will wow you on a Gay Tour wh Out Adventur. * gay albania histori *
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.
ALBANIA GAY TRAVEL
LGBT Rights Albania: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * gay albania histori *
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.
IN POWERFUL REBE OF HATE, JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY G OUT AS GAY
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.