Disco Party!
Thematic parties are revived in the night club “Inside” (15 Zelinski Street, Botanica District). Doors are open every Sunday at 10 p.m.
The season kicks off on June 10th. As always, you will be entertained, involved in contests and showered with presents. Smiles are provided for free. |
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The GENDERDOC-M Information Centre is appalled by the series of homophobic and derogatory declarations made by Marian Lupu, speaker of Moldovan parliament and leader of the Democratic Party, during the talk-show on one of Moldovan TV channels on Monday evening, 21 May. When asked to comment on the draft law on equal opportunities, former anti-discrimination law containing controversial amendments, Mr Lupu allowed himself a number of aggressive and degrading statements against fundamental rights and freedoms of gay people, their human dignity and pursuit of equality.
On behalf of The Equal Rights Trust (ERT), an independent international organisation whose purpose is to combat discrimination and promote equality as a fundamental human right and a basic principle of social justice Dimitrina Petrova, executive director of ERT, expresses their grave concerns about the recently published draft Law on Equal Opportunities (the Draft Law) to Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova Mr. Vlad Filat.
The entire text of the letter can be found below.
- Currently, Government is getting ready to forward the anti-discrimination bill to Parliament which was withdrawn from it a year ago. The bill is heavily criticized by certain representatives of church, as well as by particular political forces. 
CHISINAU -- Moldova's north-central city of Balti is emerging as a key hotspot in the latest controversy threatening to split the impoverished country in two.
Today, prior to the parliament sitting, members of the Young Guard, a youth group within the Party of Socialists, were handing in copies of the Bible to Members of Parliament with the appeal “We demand protection of Christian values”, conveys eNews.md.
After the City Council of Balti had adopted the decision “On proclaiming Balti a zone for support of the Moldovan Orthodox Church and prohibition of the aggressive propaganda of non-traditional sexual orientations”, almost each day Moldova’s mass media write, talk and show reports on how this news was received by the public. Sometimes feedback from members of the LGBT community appears in newspapers and TV programs. Thus, the Balti-based newspaper “SP” published opinion of a former city councilor’s son among others. We post it below.
In a post-communist country, where some people have a quite conservative viewpoint it is quite difficult to “come out of the closet.” The small Eastern European Republic of Moldova is presently looking forward to joining the European Union one day. The acquis communautaire has yet to be implemented, but Moldova backs off from implementing the first requirement of the criteria which refers to ensuring “the stability of institutions guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights including respect for and protection of minorities.”
This year, the 11th festival “Rainbow over the Dniester” takes place in Chisinau between 10 and 13 May under the motto “Take action! United for equality!” The organizers seek achievement of the following: equal rights for homosexual and transgender people, their integration in the society so they, like other social groups, were protected by the state. 
Two years after a gay man had been attacked and robbed court decided that the attacker must be strictly punished. The convicted Eduard Mitrofanov was bound to pay the victim moral and material damages in the amount of 10 thousand lei, as well as he was sentenced to five years in prison. 
The City Council of Moldova’s city of Balti has declared it territory “a zone of particular support of Moldovan Orthodox Church” which stipulates, among others, complete prohibition of the “imposed by Moldova’s central authority aggressive propaganda of non-traditional sexual orientation”. 
