Survey: 53% of Albanians think gay people ‘should not be free to live life as they wish’

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According to the ESS, 53% of Albanians believe that “gays and lesbians should not be free to live life as they wish,” reports BalkanInsight.

Albanians were the highest percentage to agree with that statement, compared to just 3% in Sweden and the Netherlands.

The survey, however, did not include other countries in the Western Balkans, where it is believed that homophobia is just as strong, if not higher.

As well as being opposed to gay rights, a majority of Albanian residents also do not approve of cohabitation before marriage, with 95% of respondents saying that they had not lived with a partner before getting married.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/03/26/survey-53-of-albanians-think-gay-people-should-not-be-free-to-live-life-as-they-wish/

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Regardless of what happens in the next days and weeks regarding Prop 8 and DOMA, remember where we have come from, how hard we have fought, and how far we have come as a nation.

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1. This was the US, 40 years ago. Margaret Cho related an anecdote

in response to Michelle Shocked's coming out as a homophobe - it related to an experience growing up in the Castro, seeing a gay man bludgeoned to death by a number of gaybashers, none of whom were ever held to account, none of whom was ever charged, indeed no investigation was ever held (to her knowledge). This would have been the mid-70's.

So yes, it is important to remember that many, MANY people and cultures still hate us and want to see us disappear. K&R

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2. Oh, Albania.