ADDED ON: 01/16/2023
Couple confound Romania’s tough anti-LGBTQ laws
When Evie and Gia decided to get married they turned Romania's hardening discrimination against LGBTQ people on its head. The country is one of the last in the EU where same sex…
ADDED ON: 01/16/2023
When Evie and Gia decided to get married they turned Romania's hardening discrimination against LGBTQ people on its head. The country is one of the last in the EU where same sex…
Located in Timișoara, Romania’s third-largest city, Identity.Education was created out of a need for formal representation of the LGBTI community and a lack of spaces for the community to gather. I spoke…
ADDED ON: 09/08/2022
In the last three decades, protections for LGBT people’s rights have advanced rapidly in many countries and regions. However, rising populist authoritarianism poses a significant threat to this progress because abolishing sexual…
ADDED ON: 08/31/2022
On a Saturday in early July, I arrived at the Bucharest town hall to attend a very special event – my old friend Georgiana was getting married to her partner Evie. What…
ADDED ON: 08/06/2022
The Romanian Senate recently passed a bill that would classify the dissemination of LGBTQ-related information as “propaganda,” following the lead of Russia and Hungary and continuing a trend of attacking civil liberties…
ADDED ON: 07/10/2022
Thousands of Romanians joined an LGBTQ pride march in Bucharest on Saturday ahead of planned legislation that could potentially endanger future parades and fuel discrimination. Parliament's lower house is expected to start…
ADDED ON: 06/27/2022
BUCHAREST -- Romania is considering a bill that would ban minors from being exposed to so-called "gay propaganda" in schools and in public life, despite warnings from rights groups that it would…
ADDED ON: 06/18/2022
A cross-party group of MEPs have called on Romania to drop a proposed law comparable to Russia’s so-called “gay propaganda” ban. Romania is considering a bill that would ban the use of…
ADDED ON: 04/30/2022
Romanian human rights groups on Friday condemned a bill approved by the Senate which bans so-called gay propaganda in schools, saying it would legitimise discrimination against the LGBT community, mirroring measures seen…
ADDED ON: 03/04/2022
Queer African people fleeing Ukraine are facing “intersecting violence”, campaigners have warned. More than one million people have fled Ukraine since Russia declared war. However, not all refugees are being treated equally. There have been widespread reports of…
ADDED ON: 09/02/2021
The last person jailed for being gay in Romania walked free in 1998. The country decriminalized homosexuality three years after that, in 2001, while reforming its laws to qualify for membership in…
ADDED ON: 08/22/2021
The last person jailed for being gay in Romania walked free in 1998. The country decriminalized homosexuality three years after that, in 2001, while reforming its laws to qualify for membership in…