Tag: LGTBI

Montenegro adopted the same-sex partnership bill

Posted on by Milutin

After the Parliament legalized same-sex civil partnerships on Wednesday 1 July 2020, Montenegro is the first country in the region that is not a member of the European Union to recognise gay and lesbian couples in law. It was a very narrow majority of 42 to 5 in the 81-seat chamber of MPs from the ruling Democratic Party of Socialists, DPS, the Social Democrats, the Liberal Party and the opposition Social Democratic Party.

The new law recognizes same-sex couples as legal unions but does not give them the same rights as married couples. They are still not allowed to adopt or foster children, for example, which human rights organizations say restrict LGBT rights; same-sex couples are also not recognized as families.

LGBT activists praised the decision as a historic step for society. “From today we are one step closer to full freedom and full equality. As never before, we are close to life with dignity and from today we stopped living as second-class citizens,” the advocacy group Queer Montenegro said in a press release.

Registrar, normally!

Posted on by Milutin

The Belgrade pride 2018 was held on Saturday 23 June, to mark the memory of the Stonewall revolution. The distance was not too long, there were something less than 200 people, but it was an important event because it has happened for a few consecutive year after many years of hatred reactions of hooligans. And it happened in the centre of the city.

The requests of the Pride included the adoption of legislation that will ensure visibility of the trans* people without hacking and sterilization and legalisation of the same-sex marriages – that is why the motto of the event was “Registrar, normally!”

An important ask of the Pride was the design of the HIV/AIDS prevention system, especially for young people, and provision of full and modern health care to people living with HIV. Representatives of organisations of people living with HIV and those working with other vulnerable populations including those working with people who use drugs joined the Pride.