tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47826631360767081792024-03-05T13:10:39.805-08:00Romania Gay News Blog in English - StiriGay.roRomania Gay Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08432814124803175712noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782663136076708179.post-35733071901971818572010-12-11T05:54:00.000-08:002010-12-11T05:54:43.149-08:00ALARMING SURVEY: 75% of the Romanians, disturbed to have a gay in the family<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 26px;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">LGBT people remain the most discriminated group in Romania, after people with HIV and right before Roma people</span></strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 26px;">, according to the latest survey by National Council Against Discrimination CNCD. The percentage of homophobia is high and although the Romanians consider themselves as very tolerant, 55% are uncomfortable when daily interacting with gay people, 56% would not eat together with a gay man, 85% would not drink water from the same glass with a gay person (same percentage as for a person having AIDS) and 85% would be offended if a same sex person is flirting with them.</span><br />
<div style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Romanians think that discrimination as a phenomenon is present very often (18%) or often (44%) in Romania. More, after Romania entered the European Union, people think that discrimination is increasing (31%) or is at the same level (45%) but in the future will increase even further (27%) or will be at the same level (42%).</div><a name='more'></a><br />
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Romanians are aware that sexual minorities are discriminated in a very high percentage (21%) or in high percentage (40%) and consider as discriminations facts like a person being fired from work for being gay (85%) or banning a gay pride or parade on the street (69%).</div><div style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">57% of the Romanians think that finding a job is harder for a gay person than for a heterosexual person. Actually, the society feels that LGBT persons are discriminated in a very high or high level, in general (55%), at school (55%), when hiring (55%), at work (53%), when they need medical services (48%), public services and administration (42%) or when they need justice services (41%).</div><div style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">In general, comparing to the heterosexual persons, the gay people are treated more badly (68%), in the same way (18%) while only 1% think that gays are treated better.</div><div style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Romanians are very disturbed by the LGBT people: 85% if a same sex person will flirt with them, 75% if a family member is gay, 65% if their son/daughter is gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender, 58% if their family doctor is gay, 54% if they see on the street two men holding hands and 47% if they have a LGBT person as a co-worker.</div><div style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Although, when in presence of a gay person, 37% of the Romanians would feel comfortable or very comfortable while 55% would feel less comfortable or uncomfortable.</div><div style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">When asking about eating together, only 35% would eat with a gay person and 56% wouldn't. Only 10% would drink water from the same glass with a gay while 85% wouldn't do such a gesture.</div><div style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">If they find out that a relative is having another sexual orientation, 65% of the Romanians will keep it secret and only 18% will admit it in public.</div><div style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Regarding a relationship with a gay person, 23% of the Romanians would agree to accept him to live in Romania, 15% to work together, 14% to be neighbors, 12% would not accept him in Romania, 10% would accept him only to visit Romania, 10% agrees to have somebody gay among the closest friends and only 5% to have a family member.</div><div style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">But after all that, 34% of the Romanians think that they are tolerant, the second positive attribute of the people after hard work. Only 7% feel themselves intolerant, the last in percentage of the negative attributes of the Romanian people.</div><div style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">The conclusions of the study show that the group of sexual minorities is the most stereotyped one, and we can talk about an important potential of homophobia in the Romanian population.</div><div style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">The sexual minority's problems are more and more discussed all around the world but in Romania because of traditions, religion, lack of information and others, this subject still remains taboo. Another possible reason, except the ones above, could be the fact that during communist period terms like: sexual minority, homosexuality, gay, lesbian, bisexual, were generally missing in common language or were considered as psychic deviations or behavior deviations and were punished by law.</div><div style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Tolerance for homosexuals increases when social distance increases. Depending on the socio-demographic characteristics, the study showed that women are more tolerant to sexual minorities comparing to men. Young people (18-29 years) are more tolerant to sexual minorities comparing to older ones (50 years or more). People in urban areas more tolerant compared to the ones in rural areas. As for regions of development, residents in Bucharest and the ones from North-East cities are more open to interact daily with gays and as the educational level is higher, the level of acceptance of sexual diversity is higher.</div><div style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">From the analysis of the data results that population is more likely to have a tolerant attitude when sexual minorities do not ostentatiously show diversity in public (parades, intimate gestures in public spaces, etc.)</div><div style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">"When the parade was, they were beaten with stones. So people do not accept them because they are who they are, especially to show off in public." (Focus Group, population)</div><div style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">"I think they are one of the strongest categories and the ones that fight the most to get rid of this discrimination and I totally agree with their parades and movements. I think they fight for a right, for their nature that they are not willing to hide anymore. In a few years, it will be normal. Maybe tens of years, maybe hundreds in Romania but sometime it will be normal. I have nothing against them on one condition, to keep their intimacy under their sheets." (Focus Group, population)</div><div style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Analyzing the results, comparing to other ethnic or social groups, the attitude of the population towards LGBT people is highly negative and the level of acceptance is low.</div><div style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">The survey <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Discrimination Phenomenon in Romania</span></strong> was made during October-November 2010, by TOTEM Communication for <a href="http://www.cncd.org.ro/press/Press-releases/Rezultatele-sondajului-de-opinie-Fenomenul-discriminarii-in-Romania-in-anul-2010-100/?language=ro" style="color: #a9235c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">National Council Against Discrimination CNCD</a>. The sample was of 1400 people, Romanian citizens (men and women), residents in urban and rural areas from Romania, having more than 18 years. You can download and read the full report (pdf in Romanian) from <a href="http://www.cncd.org.ro/files/file/Sondaj%20CNCD-TOTEM%202010.rar" style="color: black; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the CNCD's website</a>.</div>Romania Gay Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08432814124803175712noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782663136076708179.post-15069970246802508102010-12-09T07:57:00.000-08:002010-12-09T07:57:29.096-08:00Moldova: Gay Suicide After Police Harrassment<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1iecqfFUpwfzCQW_qghqyEVZz6SvBJLwiBRwyuHps_s2PJdErKvwt3TuC2-NS2-hHy9RV-y9dKpsedxlM_YgMthTWWIDjZONIK9tqJipr5OWl5apOOIUJl6vWnyvK3IEnuntG2e9h_Ao/s1600/Moldova_antiPRIDE2010B.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1iecqfFUpwfzCQW_qghqyEVZz6SvBJLwiBRwyuHps_s2PJdErKvwt3TuC2-NS2-hHy9RV-y9dKpsedxlM_YgMthTWWIDjZONIK9tqJipr5OWl5apOOIUJl6vWnyvK3IEnuntG2e9h_Ao/s320/Moldova_antiPRIDE2010B.JPG" width="240" /></a></div>On Monday night, 6 December a 27 year old gay man took his own life following an incident of homophobic harrassment by the Moldovan police earlier that day.<br />
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The incident started when a police car arrived at a known "crusing area" in the Moldovan capital Chişinau where only last May, the Liberal Mayor banned Moldova PRIDE, while allowing an anti-Gay demonstration to proceed. The police asked two men to go with them to the police car, where the two police officers proceeded to verbally abuse and intimidate the two men with homophobic and clearly derogatory remarks.<br />
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The incident was witnessed by a male staff member from the Moldovan LGBT organisation "Gender Doc-M" who witnessed this incident while he was doing outreach and HIV prevention work. He attempted to intervene on their behalf. As the situation was only deteriorating, the outreach worker contacted the President of Gender-Doc-M whose intervention result in their release but not before the police had taken their personal details including their work addresses. Only one of the police officers, Sergiu GAINA, presented his identity, his anonymous colleague was armed.<br />
<a name='more'></a>In their press release <b>Gender Doc-M </b>would like to make clear that while the precise circumstances of this suicide may never become clear, and it seems clear from the Moldovan police that they will not investigate, that this incident as witnessed by one of their outreach workers is consistent with the pattern of police abuse of power towards the LGBT community.<br />
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This pattern involves police men knowing the places where LGBT people meet and using their official position to pressure people coming to the cruising areas. This often involves blackmailing or threatening them and detaining them at police stations. High ranking police officials seem to accept or ignore these human rights violations<br />
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Gender Doc-M Center have appealed to the Ministry of Interior and General Police Department to investigate such cases and to put an end to the abuse of power but there has never been any reply from the officials.<br />
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A letter template outlining the basic facts for sending to Moldovan Embassies will be posted shortly on the <b><a href="http://www.pridesolidarity.eu/">PRIDE Solidarity website.</a></b><br />
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<b>We thank for this article to our friend <a href="http://www.pridesolidarity.eu/">Clare Dimyon</a></b>Romania Gay Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08432814124803175712noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782663136076708179.post-707550178785728882010-12-05T06:03:00.000-08:002010-12-05T06:03:55.666-08:00EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW - Roy Raz, director of The Lady is Dead: It helped me to get outside of the routine of the 9 to 5 living<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSgKGnieHtBDRi6d8XqtvYoeqUFK5AJh2Xj1ADnQ9Zoh9pNJTFbjFSCKsO6jeFSrL0uByJrmE7lXQXOvZgIAXnOsScKjC0lTIX6OhEvB3KXG936zhU6n2KBUAZADb-qqUMvGfOsMdHHKA/s1600/royraz2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSgKGnieHtBDRi6d8XqtvYoeqUFK5AJh2Xj1ADnQ9Zoh9pNJTFbjFSCKsO6jeFSrL0uByJrmE7lXQXOvZgIAXnOsScKjC0lTIX6OhEvB3KXG936zhU6n2KBUAZADb-qqUMvGfOsMdHHKA/s400/royraz2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 18px;"><em><strong>Roy Raz</strong>, a young Israeli producer, has recently hit the jackpot of fame with a clip he posted on YouTube, <strong>The Lady is Dead</strong>, that has more than 500.000 views until today. Beyond that, everybody talks about it... But who is <strong>Roy Raz</strong>? <strong>StiriGay.ro</strong> did an exclusive interview with the man behind the images and the story is more than interesting: commercials, gay life, parties, clubs, art, passion, photography and film but also connections with the porn industry... Extra that, Roy knows Romania very well...</em></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>For the beginning, tell us a few words about yourself and about your artistic life.</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 18px;">I am a producer and director based in Tel Aviv, I own a club here in Tel Aviv, which helps me to get outside of the routine of the 9 to 5 living... Besides that I am involved in some companies, all art/cinematic based. And actually, I've visited Romania many times, we shot there many commercial with Romanian production companies... I love it there!</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.stirigay.ro/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=11&Itemid=96">Read more on: Stirigay.ro</a>Romania Gay Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08432814124803175712noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782663136076708179.post-58363813340081601052010-11-16T02:03:00.000-08:002010-11-16T02:07:31.160-08:00Arkady one Hot ModelArkady (just Andy for friends) is the model we choosed today for our Hot Boy section. He is from Romania, is 25 years, loves modeling, art, dance and travel. <br />
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He describes as a free spirit, he loves adventure (and we do not want to say love adventures because we don’t know that), he considers as open minded and thinks that diversity is a positive thing from which each of us would learn something.<br />
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In the future he sees himself still in the spotlight as a model, actor, dancer, etc. By the way he looks, definitely he will be…<br />
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<div class="main-article-block" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://stirigay.ro/templates/rt_meridian_j15/images/light/main-tr.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-top-color: rgb(223, 223, 223); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="main-article-block2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://stirigay.ro/templates/rt_meridian_j15/images/light/main-bl.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 100%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(223, 223, 223); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 5px;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVDzezz0_gGnbBvKcVCS_UFWNGzRwrIMTV9HPVawlZC-6jIl471Wu4Dl29Zj1I0HpGciPsfGkM5ZeZTSUY_56_ntIYSYdIu9cKWj7RhasCv-mb9nWQLCN8ThHui84WwGFG23XQLuC_bS4/s1600/5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVDzezz0_gGnbBvKcVCS_UFWNGzRwrIMTV9HPVawlZC-6jIl471Wu4Dl29Zj1I0HpGciPsfGkM5ZeZTSUY_56_ntIYSYdIu9cKWj7RhasCv-mb9nWQLCN8ThHui84WwGFG23XQLuC_bS4/s400/5.jpg" width="267" /></a></div><strong><a href="http://cristian-estetic.blogspot.com/" style="color: #a9235c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Cristian Buca</a></strong> is a young Romanian artist, only 23 years old, creator of a lot of masterpieces, amazing transformations in which the freedom of his spirit is present in every single small piece of it. Cristian plays with an open attitude and a child like curiosity, a child that discovers the world with sensitivity, and from all this play, beautiful things are born.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">He is modest, he prefers to stay behind his works, let them talk about his talent. But he is very careful with everything that surrounds him.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">All started by playing, passionate and curious, and if at the beginning he described himself as a nail stylist, in time, he became make-up artist, model, and recently, fashion designer.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">His latest creation made a lot of controversies in Romanian media, the national costume gown designed and worn by <a href="http://www.missuniverseromania.com/" style="color: #a9235c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Miss Universe Romania</a>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">So, a free spirit, a bohemian, <strong>Cristian Buca accepted to talk exclusively with StiriGay.ro</strong> about him, about his career and a bit about his private life. We were attracted to what he worked, we are proud of him as we want to be proud with other Romanian gay values, that are a lot.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>At what age did you discovered your passion and what made you develop it into art?</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Since I was a little boy I loved colors and strange mixes that I made with them. Later, I discovered lines and shapes so I loved painting. As any child, I was a fan of painting and coloring. My parents, some open minded people, had the initiative and worked hard to develop my artistic skills to the max. At 11, 11 and a half, I started experimenting some new colors, the cosmetic ones that I discovered in my mother's closet. When they saw it was a serious thing, my parents said that it's ok to start a very basic make-up training, something that was fit to my understanding at that age. So, like that, from painting to make-up was just a step.<br />
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<a name='more'></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>But what steps did you have to make in order to become what you are now? How about sacrifices?</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">I worked a lot. I was and I am still very conscious, consistent and persevering, and all of that because I wanted and I want still to offer the highest quality standards. As for sacrifices, I don't know if I could name it like that, but the countless number of hours of study that left me with less or sometimes without time to live my childhood.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>What do you recommend to a young man who wants to become a stylist?</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">I don't think there is a secret recipe or some steps to follow. It only needs to desire that, to work and study, and a lot of practice, anytime you have the opportunity. Practice, in my case, meant to make-up every single day. I was looking in the magazines , I saw a new technique or a new trick and after I tried to did them on my own. Through exercise you create and develop your own style and your artistic personality. In the end, only these two make us unique whether we are make-up artists, designers , hair dressers, etc.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><a href="http://stirigay.ro/images/stories/cristian.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="cristian" border="0" height="243" src="http://stirigay.ro/images/stories/cristian.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-top: 3px;" width="320" /></a><strong>What do you prefer the most: working in TV or creating in the fashion industry?</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">I love them both so much, although they are so different. In fashion you are free to create and put into practice any dumb and fool thing possible, you can do the strangest mixes of shapes and colors. In TV, everything is so severe and exact. You can play only between some limited and very well shaped lines.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>What do you like most in your work?</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">There are more things that I love when it comes to my work. First of all, I feel the freest person on the planet. That moment, when I do make-up is a special one, filled with love, freedom and purity. I feel like I am one person with the color, with the pigment that I use... It's my moment of absolute freedom.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>What do you think about Romanian teens? Do they know how to value their youth?</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Teens, generally, not only in Romania, have the tendency to take things to the extreme. They care about their look as we all are trying, through different ways and techniques. As for make-up, I think that they are exaggerating a bit. Too many times I see girls trying to be seen by using strong, violent, tasteless make-up. On day to day basis I believe that natural look is a "must have".</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Where do you like to work? Some place you dream to, anywhere on this planet?</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">I want to believe that my place is between the stars and when I say that I refer to Hollywood, USA. That's the place I hardly wish to work. In the mean time, I am pretty sure that I could do a great job in a circus such as Cirque du Soleil. It's a great challenge for any make-up artist to work with so many and various theme make-ups as in the circus world. There you can use and exploit to the max your imagination and creativity because of the variety of shows and characters.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Can you tell us the most interesting or funny moment that you lived while doing make-up for a star?</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">I have a most strange place to do a make-up, a gas station near the sea. I was on vacation and I was pretty sure that I will not doing make-up during that time. Totally wrong! On a Saturday evening, a star friend of mine called and asked me so nicely to help her with a make-up because she had an event that evening and hadn't time to prepare herself before leaving Bucharest. So I took all the make-up products I had with me just in case (it were just a few) and I left the resort where I was staying, going to Constanta where her event was scheduled. One hour later I was doing a make-up at a table, in open air, in a gas station, at night, at cold neon lamp light. People who saw us were shocked but it was a crisis situation so we had to act quickly and efficiently.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong><img alt="IMG_5522" height="400" src="http://stirigay.ro/images/stories/IMG_5522.jpg" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; margin-top: 3px;" width="266" />Tell us something about your much media focused experience at Miss Universe, Romanian selection.</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Let me tell you how I started working for Miss Universe. For two years, I am working as a make-up artist at the National Television, where I met Valentina Ionescu (Producer and Host at Miss Universe Romanian Selection). Later, we become friends and I was her personal make-up artist.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">She also has a show on National Television - International Channel and I was doing her a make-up for that show when she told me about Miss Universe project and asked me if I would be interested to work for it. I had no hesitation and I said yes right away. I knew that in Romania, Miss Universe was canceled since 1998 so I thought that a new beginning will be a new experience for me, full of positive energy. That's it.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">In my first year there, 2009, I did only make-up but at this year's edition, Valentina who knew my passion for painting asked me if I want to design the 30 gowns for the national costume parade. Miss Universe is like a vice, in a positive manner, so when you started, you'll never stop.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">So, when she asked me, I thought that was the biggest challenge I faced by then so it worth trying. More than three months passed since I started doing research till I finished all 30 sketches, from November 2009 till February 2010.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">After the approval of the sketches made by the Artistic Director of the show, Liliana Iordanescu and Valentina, Producer and Host, we started searching people to do the gowns physically. It was more complicated than we thought because everyone who saw the sketches said that the gowns are impossible to be made. Only one person tried to made them, Anca Maxim, designer at Maximum Chic Fashion House. I can say that this beautiful costume is the result of our perfect partnership.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Now, let's talk a bit about you. How do you perceive gay life in Romania?</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">No matter how much we, the Romanians, pretend that we accept diversity, we don't have or we don't want to access more information about sexual diversity. I think that everyone of us is free to make his own choices as long as it doesn't offend the persons around him. People are afraid of the unknown and instead of being curious or doing research, they choose to denial, to hate and to be brutal. We have more to learn about this subject but I am positive that very soon all this fake beliefs about homosexuality will disappear.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Does your sexual orientation jeopardized your career?</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">I think I couldn't do this work if I weren't gay. It's a domain where you need the sharp but sensitive eye of a gay person.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Are you living alone or are you involved in a relationship?</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">For the moment, I am alone, I have no relationship.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>A few words for our readers, in the end?</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Gay is a strong and defining word. Try to be natural and let people see you for who you really are because only having this attitude we will manage to change something in the mind of the persons that are so afraid of the unknown.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><em>Even if you are not famous, even if you didn't made something special, you are one of us. <strong>We are waiting for an e-mail</strong> in which you'll tell us something about you, about how's to be gay in Romania. Your story will be published in our section, <strong>Be gay in Romania</strong>. <strong><a href="http://stirigay.ro/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=27&Itemid=34" style="color: #a9235c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Read more here.</a></strong></em></div></div></div>Romania Gay Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08432814124803175712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782663136076708179.post-60735571128952037002010-09-19T10:27:00.000-07:002010-09-19T10:27:39.575-07:00Queen Elisabeth II honours LGBT Work in C&E Europe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCH_fiwRo-7LDE5KqpyCjaPKdCR3SXowB_Fs4vE_L9I07U-pAycU069DbGV746Jy4o5H_93E2mVRKgiZLr-_gF_LarPA1o7ZzOB5r9Jfn18jXtFcXl19Pcv8INbYpjWy-oOBUmsCBFHIk/s1600/clare2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCH_fiwRo-7LDE5KqpyCjaPKdCR3SXowB_Fs4vE_L9I07U-pAycU069DbGV746Jy4o5H_93E2mVRKgiZLr-_gF_LarPA1o7ZzOB5r9Jfn18jXtFcXl19Pcv8INbYpjWy-oOBUmsCBFHIk/s320/clare2.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 18px;">In this <strong>40th birthday year of PRIDE</strong>, the <strong>LGBT people of Central & Eastern Europe</strong> have featured in the <strong>Queen's Birthday Honours List 2010</strong> with the <a href="http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/about-us/what-we-do/services-we-deliver/protocol/honours/dso-list" style="color: #a9235c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">award of an MBE</a> (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) to <strong>Clare B Dimyon</strong>. This honour is "in recognition of her services to promoting the <strong>rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender</strong> people in Central and Eastern Europe".</span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Clare attended <strong>Bucharest GayFest 2009</strong> and was celebrating her birthday in<strong>Romania</strong> when this decision was made at the end of April.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Clare responds: "This is a great honour but I am only a visitor to the PRIDE parades in C&E Europe. I am only a witness to the determination of LGBT people (and their friends and families) to achieve their full human rights and dignity. I am delighted at this recognition for the LGBT people of C&E Europe, it is recognition and honour they richly deserve. I look forward to the day when their own countries recognise and honour them for their contribution. This is not only the development of the human rights and dignity of LGBT people (and all minorities) but the embedding of democratic principles in the post-Soviet era. As I am prone to saying on my travels in C&E Europe, <strong>Love is the answer, so what was the question?</strong>"</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">In June, the <strong>EU Commission</strong> hosted in London an exhibition in honour of the 40th birthday of PRIDE. <strong>"Fall of the Wall" meet Stonewall</strong> – was a visual "parade of the parades" of the LGBT people of C&E Europe.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong><a href="http://stirigay.ro/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=493:stirigayro-at-fall-of-the-wall-meets-stonewall-photo-exhibition&catid=29:english&Itemid=96" style="color: #a9235c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">StiriGay.ro</a></strong><a href="http://stirigay.ro/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=493:stirigayro-at-fall-of-the-wall-meets-stonewall-photo-exhibition&catid=29:english&Itemid=96" style="color: #a9235c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> was proud to take part at the event</a> as two of our photographs taken by <strong>Ciprian Vantu</strong> at <strong>2010 Romanian GayFest March</strong> were selected by <strong>Clare Dimyon</strong> and were exhibited at <strong>"Fall of the Wall meets Stonewall"</strong>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><em>Photo credit: Clare B Dimyon with Natalija Puzanskaja (LT) at Baltic PRIDE – Vilnius 2010 / Photo by: Daiva Šarėjienė (LT)</em></div>Romania Gay Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08432814124803175712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782663136076708179.post-18826651434925417952010-09-19T09:41:00.000-07:002010-09-19T09:41:10.783-07:00Discrimination, a never ending matter<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 18px;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQS0TsI3hQEPhjnyquEHvJTMu36iJ1LPrZMRoYUknUFF5Ln7jwebDedGaMplJ0SSzHNO5vYwD1PwGTnh5UDQuvaUyaOh1SQeO2mOZLUiwkrp2xZhq4unXlxcqz2qER2SKAdUnSqJMbcbo/s1600/discrimination.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQS0TsI3hQEPhjnyquEHvJTMu36iJ1LPrZMRoYUknUFF5Ln7jwebDedGaMplJ0SSzHNO5vYwD1PwGTnh5UDQuvaUyaOh1SQeO2mOZLUiwkrp2xZhq4unXlxcqz2qER2SKAdUnSqJMbcbo/s200/discrimination.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>We're talking about discrimination almost all the time</strong>. There are funding to fight against it, there are TV and radio shows in which a lot of people talk about it; just talk. It's so present and usual that almost seem to be a natural state. We can exist but we can't be ourselves, we have freedom but we can't express it.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>That's how normality looks like in Romania for a gay person that lives it and accepts it</strong>. We can say out loud that we are gay. We'll make people feel pity or compassionate, we could awake animal instincts in others or we could awake ourselves all alone.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"></div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Maybe, generally speaking, the <strong>Romanian LGBT community is accepted in silence</strong>, with closed fists but if you look deep inside, at the details, you'll see that things are not like that.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Some people couldn't or wouldn't accept that we are normal people (because of religious beliefs or other indoctrinators).</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Example 1: A <strong>Drag queen</strong> goes to a store to buy something. Definitely, he will be served but looked like a freak of nature, in total silence and with signs behind him. I can't guarantee that the special treatment will repeat outside, on the street, where he risks to be beaten in every moment.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Example 2: A <strong>gay or lesbian couple </strong>searching to rent a home. If they admit their love then their chances are almost zero. If not, they should invent lies and answer allusive questions like "But why two men/women want to live in the same house?" or "How will you sleep?" or many other intimacy abuses.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">And the examples can go on...</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Unfortunately, <strong>discrimination </strong>has deep roots in everyone of us. If it's not of sexual matters, it could be social. Reasons to discriminate someone are easy to find anytime.<br />
What is to be done? Maybe if everything that's made to stop discrimination would be made entirely, not only at a half, then maybe we would talk less about violence against LGBT community and more about normality</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Reading what I wrote upwards, I realized that I did nothing else but to talk about a best selling matter, with no real results.<strong> But maybe talking about it, slowly, slowly, something will happen or somebody will realize that what he lives right now, here, in Romania, is not a normality.</strong></div>Romania Gay Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08432814124803175712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782663136076708179.post-66177847791438487332010-09-18T04:14:00.000-07:002010-09-18T12:03:35.115-07:00StiriGay.ro, affected by the financial crisis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaR4BJdH-zri44w9B_a3rV1-hpBGDhd-kz_O0cz_hh8OPaEPATvYDxbaUDV1YYLVlAkdiAFbtbsr6g6J7VUOB2-F9MI_q1hE9uXEGzNnQtBE0pVTXCzYDQ-9mkou60nw2egVfEWN93SBE/s1600/sigla-Stiri-Gay.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaR4BJdH-zri44w9B_a3rV1-hpBGDhd-kz_O0cz_hh8OPaEPATvYDxbaUDV1YYLVlAkdiAFbtbsr6g6J7VUOB2-F9MI_q1hE9uXEGzNnQtBE0pVTXCzYDQ-9mkou60nw2egVfEWN93SBE/s200/sigla-Stiri-Gay.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 18px;">Our website, <strong><a href="http://StiriGay.ro/">StiriGay.ro</a></strong> was affected by the financial crisis. How could avoid it? Unfortunately it is not enough only to wish to do something for the things to work as planned.</span><br />
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<strong><a href="http://StiriGay.ro/">StiriGay.ro</a></strong> is a project that appeared from the desire to move things a bit in the<strong>Romanian LGBT community</strong>. We started in full speed, bringing <strong>a lot of fresh news</strong>, mainly from abroad because in our country nothing seemed to happen.</span><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"></div><a name='more'></a>We proposed that our interviews (that we did or translated in full or partially) to present real values of this community, controversial or not, but with impressive careers.<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">We were quoted by some of the <strong>most important LGBT media worldwide</strong>, especially during the <strong>Romanian Pride from Bucharest</strong> (we disagree with the official title of the Bucharest Gay Parade that is called Diversity March so we are calling it a Pride although it is not a real Pride yet).</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Generally, we found more support and understanding abroad.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">I can't say the same thing about Romania. From the moment we launched the website, there were a few hysterias, all childish and useless. We argued with Romania's main LGBT organization, <strong>Accept</strong> and with the <strong>other LGBT media</strong> from the market, only because we said our opinion about some things.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Apparently, <strong>the communist method is still working here</strong>. Probably we should applaud and praise everybody who pretends to do something for the LGBT community but they didn't although they should do something.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">We overcome everything... except the <strong>CRISIS</strong>... <strong>The crisis in advertising, the crisis of investors, etc.</strong> (<strong>If someone reads this and thinks he could help us, give us an e-mail!</strong>)</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">All this makes the enthusiasm to be not enough. The volunteerism is crisis times is almost zero and I can't blame anybody because he wants to work for pay instead of doing volunteer work and die from hunger...</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">We believe in this project, we believe that someday <strong><a href="http://StiriGay.ro/">StiriGay.ro</a></strong> will be a opinion leader in this community so we decided, for the moment, until we pass the financial problems, to refresh our website on weekly basis. Anyway, it is better than nothing!</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">We need you, our readers, we need your opinions pro or against but always in common sense. Be next to us. We are open to new ideas so don't hesitate to write us.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">We expect you to be more "active" on the website and let's make together from <strong>StiriGay.ro a gay news leader in Romanian LGBT community</strong>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong><em>Thank you and we love you all!!!</em></strong></div>Romania Gay Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08432814124803175712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782663136076708179.post-69911102015638705312010-09-18T04:10:00.000-07:002010-09-18T12:03:49.201-07:00Unprecedented Support to Queer Culture Festival in St. Petersburg<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKBnDyPL46hmb3fO3UiuXjo0rBf5WQplTIlbh2M5E0mLiIy2A_YTS5lewRs7Q1nae-AUpM1VG8hhVARU1OWriygroobFX0GokIpuW6SZcrCFH0G4Z__S8yndWyMxed34nfxYYSJqeXUTA/s1600/eng1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKBnDyPL46hmb3fO3UiuXjo0rBf5WQplTIlbh2M5E0mLiIy2A_YTS5lewRs7Q1nae-AUpM1VG8hhVARU1OWriygroobFX0GokIpuW6SZcrCFH0G4Z__S8yndWyMxed34nfxYYSJqeXUTA/s200/eng1.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 18px;">This year's <strong>Russian Festival of Queer Culture</strong>, which is going to take place in <strong>St. Petersburg</strong> on <strong>September 16-25</strong>, gained much support from distinguished artists, politicians, journalists and other public figures. The event has scheduled exhibitions, debates, concerts, poetry evenings, movie and animation contests, theatre, fashion shows and drag king shows. Among its supporters are Mayor of Berlin,<strong>Klaus Wowereit</strong>, British actor <strong>Stephen Fry</strong>, Belgian singer <strong>Lara Fabian</strong>, American actor and filmmaker<strong>John Cameron Mitchell</strong>, Swedish musician <strong>Jay-Jay Johanson</strong>, one of the guests of the event, and others.</span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">"The Festival's slogan - <strong>Art of Being Yourself</strong> - is not only a call to every individual to be confident of him or herself and to accept differences of others, but also calls for a fair society built upon mutual respect, for a society that sees diversity as an enrichment and not as a blemish," says <strong>Klaus Wowereit</strong>, the Mayor of Berlin. "I wish the <strong>International Queer Culture Festival in St. Petersburg</strong> much success."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"></div><a name='more'></a><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><img alt="jayjay" height="247" src="http://stirigay.ro/images/stories/jayjay.jpg" style="float: right; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; margin-top: 3px;" width="250" />"When a question if I wanted to participate in the Festival came up, there was no hesitation. I definitely said yes directly," says <strong>Jay-Jay Johanson</strong>, popular Swedish musician and guest star of the Festival. "I wish the Festival good luck and I hope their voice will be heard all over the world."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">"As I sang few years ago, '<strong>The Difference</strong>', is also a value that you should be proud of. You are aware that the difference, disturbs, scares, and sometimes leads people to commit acts of violence. I have faced the criticism, a lot of rumors floated around me. That could have made me doubt and abandon, but I never lost hope and confidence. Belief in itself is a strength and assume its difference is just as much," says <strong>Lara Fabian</strong> in her message for the festival.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">The organizers are also very happy for the <strong>Russian support</strong> they received this year. They thank <strong>Vladimir Pozner</strong>, famous Russian TV journalist and host,<strong>Artemiy Troickiy</strong>, one of the leading specialists in modern music in Russia and<strong>Valeriy Panyushkin</strong>, well-known journalist and writer.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">"Problem of homophobia exists everywhere in the world to various degrees, but in Russia it is felt very strongly," says <strong>Vladimir Pozner</strong>. "Much time will be needed to change public opinion, but I salute you for trying to achieve it, for showing courage... and even admire you, but I want to warn you that a long road lies ahead."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">"We think it is very important for public persons to speak up for LGBT cause, because they have a great influence on public opinion. While in the West, artists and politicians often speak out in support of LGBT rights, in Russia this kind of support is unprecedented. We want to thank these wonderful people for taking the time to help us bring the message of tolerance to the hearts and minds of the Russian society," says <strong>Polina Savchenko</strong>, the Festival coordinator.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">September 16-25 of this year, the<strong> International Festival of Queer Culture</strong> is coming to <strong>St. Petersburg, Russia</strong> for the <strong>second time</strong>. This is a non-commercial project whose goal is to promote tolerance and diversity and to attract society's attention to the problems of homophobia and transphobia in Russia through the language of art.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Queer Culture Festival</strong> is one of the largest openly queer events in Russia. Last year, it attracted over 3000 people and went on without any obstacles from the Russian authorities, right extremist groups, or any other interruptions. This year, the organizers hope to attract even more attention, peacefully and lawfully, to the issues that affect LGBT people.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong><a href="http://queerfest.ru/?lang=en" style="color: #a9235c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">You can find the Festival's program on the website here</a></strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">The organizer of the Festival is the <strong><a href="http://piter.lgbtnet.ru/" style="color: #a9235c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">St. Petersburg LGBT organization Coming Out</a></strong> with the financial support by the Swedish human rights organization <strong><a href="http://www.civilrightsdefenders.org/" style="color: #a9235c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Civil Rights Defenders</a></strong>.</div>Romania Gay Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08432814124803175712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782663136076708179.post-1000842703268313302010-09-18T04:03:00.000-07:002010-09-18T12:18:54.729-07:00EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Morgan Tepsic turns exhibitionism to art<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 18px;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZjGh6Q2n2OKNqJ4KCpOLjjwcTIieO4BlA3plJNMNKlt14JlKg9l1VRgIGJrdVnbzYWhdgBaB-gIlNtzGJMDOwAnxBnxGgH3krdRbTj0hkgT1xcP2nL1vBvCGa5u9xzTjlcEFV1cwqlNM/s1600/morgan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZjGh6Q2n2OKNqJ4KCpOLjjwcTIieO4BlA3plJNMNKlt14JlKg9l1VRgIGJrdVnbzYWhdgBaB-gIlNtzGJMDOwAnxBnxGgH3krdRbTj0hkgT1xcP2nL1vBvCGa5u9xzTjlcEFV1cwqlNM/s320/morgan.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">What would you say if you will see a naked man jumping in front of his camera? Everyone is entitled to have an opinion about that but we must admit that<strong>StiriGay.ro</strong> team loved the idea. And we will be lucky to see that live, here, in Romania as the man that invented that thing will visit our country very soon.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong><a href="http://www.morgantepsic.com/photos/" style="color: #a9235c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Morgan Tepsic</a></strong> is a 20 years old talented American photographer, born and living in Oklahoma City. Although all his pictures are great and he promotes photography as art, managing a magazine called <strong><a href="http://magazine.morgantepsic.com/" style="color: #a9235c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Tepsic Magazine</a></strong>, Morgan is more known as "<strong>The Jumper Man</strong>", the guy that strips and jumps naked in front of his camera.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">You would say an exhibitionist but the resulting pictures are totally crazy but innovative, having all the requirements of an artwork.<br />
<a name='more'></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Now, his passion for traveling will be combined with his passion for being naked. Monday, 24th of May he'll start a trip around the world, visiting countries like Japan, Korea, Laos, Taiwan, Thailand, China and Romania, among others. And everywhere he wants to be free so he will jump naked in front of his camera.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">He uses for inspiration the feeling of being completely lost in an area where he doesn't know the language, the street names, the people, etc. He tends to get his best pictures when he has a clear head and he has tunnel vision on his subject.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">His first experience of jumping naked in front of the camera happened after Christmas of 2009 when he was at his home, without electricity and without weed. Outside it was a snowstorm so he went out on the empty streets and did his first naked pictures. After that, he moved to empty warehouses or abandoned factories. But his craziest adventure ever was to jump on the lawn of his state capital after some rallies.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">At the beginning he was turned on doing this but now it is harder. He is also turned on when taking pictures in the bedroom or having sex in public places, especially in trains. He likes dirty talks and sex plays with ropes.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Morgan loves artists like Henri Cartier Bresson, Terry Richardson, Ryan McGinley, Jakob Lodwick, Chiamattt, Breakbot, Demetri Martin and detests party pic dudes that snap a picture of you and then twist their cameras around while the shutter is still open so their pictures look like they have more energy in them than meets the eye. But he also detests expensive cars, Facebook, cocaine, Jesus and Lady Gaga.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">We are eager to see the result of his work but until then Morgan Tepsic was kind to answer exclusively to the questions from<strong>StiriGay.ro</strong> about his future visit to Romania, about his project and, of course, about himself.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Your photos reflects an extraordinary freedom. Seeing them, we feel we want to jump next to you. Did you ever considered to have another people doing the same thing, in the same time, in the same picture as you?</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong></strong>Usually the people that help me with the pictures are not comfortable with getting naked with me. However, I do have a "masterpiece" in mind...but my lips are sealed on that until it happens.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>We noticed you'll come to Romania too. What made you choose our country?</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong></strong>One of my good friends who has traveled throughout Europe turned me on to Romania...after researching it for a while I was sold. The architecture, the nature, everything. I can't wait to get naked there.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Do you plan your photo shoots from home? What is your plan for here, in Romania? Do you have a specific location?</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Shoots are pretty spontaneous...which is probably why I almost never wear underwear or socks anymore. So I can strip down easily and get naked. So far, Retezat looks incredible... I'd love to hit some public places, but I need to plan that a bit more carefully. I'm sure I'll keep stopping and getting naked every place I go!</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>What means freedom for you?</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Freedom to me is having an idea or dream and fucking going for it!</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>What are your expectations from this adventure, from Romania and from the whole trip too?</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">I try not to have any expectations about anything... Even with this nude project I didn't have any. I just wanted to get naked around in weird places, that was it. The only thing I expect from this trip is to visit some amazingly beautiful places, meet some nice joyful people and take pictures.</div>Romania Gay Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08432814124803175712noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782663136076708179.post-38696608838533082602010-09-18T03:55:00.000-07:002010-09-18T03:55:28.025-07:00The 2010 Romanian Gay March was small but safe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinY2xKndsvNyn-Qwx8AbwwVwv0nJFhE6wVQq8IRPxQgTwHcgpDnp-nbfMDtZWt2wl9zm1ELJIsOccn48Pryx62b6o3gpNPn0mWrVp3hCq7Qp8JL8l8t_PeQN-1ZOPas26IR8jEjSqoAu4/s1600/mars.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinY2xKndsvNyn-Qwx8AbwwVwv0nJFhE6wVQq8IRPxQgTwHcgpDnp-nbfMDtZWt2wl9zm1ELJIsOccn48Pryx62b6o3gpNPn0mWrVp3hCq7Qp8JL8l8t_PeQN-1ZOPas26IR8jEjSqoAu4/s320/mars.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 18px;">A lot of journalists, enough supportive people and just a few members of the LGBT community... Only their leaders. <strong>Around 200 people</strong>.</span><br />
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Nice atmosphere, like for a celebration, with a plus brought by the group from the <strong>British Embassy</strong>, a supporter of the event. They gave a little glimpse from a true <strong>Pride</strong>. Overall things were as it supposed to be.</span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>ACCEPT</strong> organized carefully the <strong>Diversity March</strong>. Security all over, two empty boulevards, police, gendarmes. The participans were more secure than a president. They prepared to deal with a huge crowd. But it wasn't one.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">The participants were civilised, marched nicely on <strong>DJ Pagal</strong>'s music, among balloons, flags and whistles.</div>There were still <strong>covered faces</strong>, avoiding to be recognized by somebody. There were <strong>warnings from the organizers</strong> telling you to<strong>r</strong><strong>emove all Rainbow signs</strong>, for your own safety, after the march. And all these things show that we are still f<strong>ar from a relaxed gay community</strong>, here, in <strong>Romania</strong>.<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">But above all, these street events have a designated purpose and even <strong>just for one day a year</strong>, on two empty boulevards,<strong>more secure that the Pope himself</strong>, it is great that you can be who you are and you can <strong>ask for your rights</strong>. Speeches were kept in front of the <strong>House of </strong><strong>Parliament</strong>. Speakers were invited, more from abroad than from Romania. But everything finished way to soon.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">What was an intriguing thing for the community was that <strong>the Romanian Gay March didn't had a message</strong>. So, somehow, <strong>it wasn't a</strong><strong> march</strong>. But, on the other hand, <strong>it wasn't a Pride</strong> either.</div>The media just mentioned the event, busy with more serious things and disappointed that this year they didn't find anyting so sensational enough to make ratings.<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Importat to mention is the comment that the journalist <a href="http://voxpublica.realitatea.net/politica-societate/despre-gay-in-bucuresti-43423.html" style="color: #a9235c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Laura Cernahoschi made on Vox Publica</a>. Here's an excerpt:</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">"I haven't seen in Bucharest, in an ordinary day, two gay people waking and keeping eachother's hand. I can't even think about a kiss. I haven't seen gay people in an restaurant caressing eachother. I haven't seen any of the natural gestures I saw in other cities, European or not. And I'm talking about what's going on here, in Bucharest, because in the country, the taboos are magnified.<br />
Some people are asking why the sexual minorities need to parade on the streets or why always the participants are the most exhibitionist ones. That's why they need it. Because that's how you obtain the rights."</div><br />
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</div>Romania Gay Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08432814124803175712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782663136076708179.post-38019456878291436012010-09-18T03:51:00.000-07:002010-09-18T03:51:16.985-07:00Joint Statement Expressing Support for Bucharest Pride Festival<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 18px;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwthd83FedA09lz86cCHATh0J09842oSdBR0jFbXuiZoEgb0iT5xKDOCctUd1DKPVWCuI66YdkUzJ3A-tIE1kjGNpJvaX49r_Wi6OkEWyzN3n24qtQbHwEQ2-QBwIAYi4l7MwvkJNlcWY/s1600/GayPride.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwthd83FedA09lz86cCHATh0J09842oSdBR0jFbXuiZoEgb0iT5xKDOCctUd1DKPVWCuI66YdkUzJ3A-tIE1kjGNpJvaX49r_Wi6OkEWyzN3n24qtQbHwEQ2-QBwIAYi4l7MwvkJNlcWY/s320/GayPride.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Bucharest, 20 May 2010 - On the occasion of the 2010 Bucharest Pride Festival, we express our support for, and solidarity with, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities in Romania. We support the right of these communities to use this traditional occasion to march together peacefully and lawfully, in order to raise awareness of the specific issues that affect them.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Human rights - including justice, equality, humanity, respect and freedom of expression - and the rule of law are the foundations upon which democratic states are built. Indeed, international human rights law is grounded on the premise that all individuals are entitled to the same rights and freedoms, as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is this respect for fundamental human values that obliges governments to protect all citizens from violence and discrimination and to ensure that all people enjoy equal opportunities.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Some individuals still face discrimination, both systemic and overt, based on their sexual orientation and gender identity. Our governments seek to combat such discrimination by promoting the human rights of all people. Everyone, including gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people should be free to enjoy the rights and freedoms to which people of all nations are entitled.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">The following joint press release is issued by the Embassies of Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States of America, inform <a href="http://accept-romania.ro/" style="color: #a9235c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">accept-romania.ro</a>.</div>Romania Gay Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08432814124803175712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782663136076708179.post-28466911997224333402010-09-18T03:49:00.000-07:002010-09-18T03:49:10.863-07:00International gay photography project to photograph Gay-Fest 2010<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 18px;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis6VTy69ooO1kh7Mb8r01xnBFFJ2ErpkfDKlz9Q7_9F7dS0das1EdYTdZ4ZL-1D8EEhNFKyz3YirgOpO2F3cfvJRvsEx1kBdquPZP3xPXqZXK9PIQOXBm6XKCUzovqtthmOceE-YtMP7E/s1600/belarus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis6VTy69ooO1kh7Mb8r01xnBFFJ2ErpkfDKlz9Q7_9F7dS0das1EdYTdZ4ZL-1D8EEhNFKyz3YirgOpO2F3cfvJRvsEx1kBdquPZP3xPXqZXK9PIQOXBm6XKCUzovqtthmOceE-YtMP7E/s320/belarus.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">The Walk with Pride (WWP) project will be in attendance at this year's Gay-Fest in Bucharest. Images from Gay-Fest will be included in the WWP's international photo collection, which will showcase a year of pride parades from around the globe.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">The WWP project's aspiration is to use photography to promote international gay rights and visibility. While imagery often celebrates the colorful atmosphere of parades, the project also displays the diversity of LGBT communities.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Photo galleries showing past parades, including the Taipei Manila , Sydney ,and Baltic Pride festivals are already available on the project's website.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">After attending the Taipei Pride March, photographer Charles Meacham and blogger/writer Sarah Baxter developed Walk with Pride as a means of documenting similar world gay pride events. Charles Meacham has already completed several other culture-related photography projects, which has led to over 20 international photography awards, including those from National Geographic Traveler, Smithsonian, and PDN magazines.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">While their foremost aim with the project is to encourage pride in diversity, they also hope to generate a greater concern by those outside the gay community regarding the subject of equal rights.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">As Meacham explains, "Gay rights, like all human rights, is a topic that we both sincerely and enthusiastically support, so we wanted to do something to support the movement, and help people see it in this light."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">For those interested in following the WWP's progress, visit <a href="http://www.walkwithpridenow.com/" style="color: #a9235c; text-decoration: none;">http://www.walkwithpridenow.com</a> or<a href="http://wwpproject.wordpress.com./" style="color: #a9235c; text-decoration: none;">http://wwpproject.wordpress.com.</a></div><div><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"></div><div id="disqus_thread" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><div class="clearfix" id="dsq-content" style="display: block; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;"><div class="dsq-community-preview" id="dsq-global-toolbar" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"></div></div></div>Romania Gay Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08432814124803175712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782663136076708179.post-26237177853310675162010-09-18T03:46:00.000-07:002010-09-18T03:46:57.173-07:00EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW - David Pereira: You must work hard, live the process and create the moment<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 18px;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivgvHRwImsE9FH0paYJC97FeXULszPrqaWvqJjIwzPxnPKUzRkZ64PehC7Pgtzp0FwsMgYGh_e69qJkKqPlxrhP82qZkJ-_Vht7X6R9KDtGECiFVOFXQ3Q_VNxJlkjCxPzfu-c6kejm90/s1600/davidper.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivgvHRwImsE9FH0paYJC97FeXULszPrqaWvqJjIwzPxnPKUzRkZ64PehC7Pgtzp0FwsMgYGh_e69qJkKqPlxrhP82qZkJ-_Vht7X6R9KDtGECiFVOFXQ3Q_VNxJlkjCxPzfu-c6kejm90/s320/davidper.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Amazing in any shape, the spanish artist <a href="http://www.davepereira.blogspot.com/" style="color: #a9235c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">David Pereira</a>, 20 years old, is definitely on the right path to a succesful career. His art - a mixture of acrobatics, dance and gymnastics - amazed the audiences worldwide. David recently left the Spanish national male gymnastics team and fulfill his dream of becoming an artist and career in showbiz. Starting May, you'll see him performing in Berlin, in<a href="http://www.wintergartenberlin.de/" style="color: #a9235c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Wintergarten's future show, Made in Berlin</a>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>David Pereira was so kind to give an exclusive interview to <a href="http://StiriGay.ro/">StiriGay.ro</a>.</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Tell us something about yourself, your country and your childhood.</strong>Vigo is a nice city to live but not interesting at all for me because there aren't places where do what you really feel and want, like to train yourself, to work, etc.<br />
My childhood was normal till I was 12 years old. Then I began studying the classical ballet. I grow up with the music and the art of dance inside of me. Listening to music for me was and still it's like feeling every cell of my body moving, so definitely the day I started to learn dance was magical and the big change in my life. I was in my world.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>You give up gymnastics for art. What made you take such a big move in your life?</strong>Because I wanted to create emotions with my movements and show to the audience what is my best. I really felt that stage was calling me.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Your work needs hours and hours of practice. Tell us a daily schedule and what are the sacrifices you made for that.</strong>Well, in despite of what people think, I have a normal day schedule. The only difference is that I don't live my days in the same city or place everytime<br />
The main "sacrifice" that I have to do is to take special care of my body and health.</div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>We know that you have a deal with Cirque du Soleil. How is the world of circus viewed from the inside?</strong>It was an special event. What I can say is that Cirque has very professional people working there, not only artists but an amazing technical team and equipment too.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>What are your future projects? When can we see you performing here, in Romania?</strong>I will start living in Berlin for the next months. My next contract will be in <a href="http://www.wintergartenberlin.de/" style="color: #a9235c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Wintergarten, also in Berlin</a>, since May till September 2010. About Romania, who knows? Maybe soon!</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><span class="avPlayerContainer" style="clear: both; display: block; position: relative; text-align: center; z-index: 999;"><span class="avPlayerSubContainer" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: #010101; background-image: url(http://stirigay.ro/plugins/content/jw_allvideos/tmpl/images/videoplayer-bg.gif); background-position: 50% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #bbbbbb; display: block; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 12px; padding-top: 12px; text-align: right; width: 400px;"><span class="avPlayerBlock" id="AVPlayerID_bc576382" style="color: #bbbbbb; display: block; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; padding-bottom: 8px;"><object data="http://www.youtube.com/v/UpHgaDViuDo&hl=en&fs=1" style="height: 300px; width: 400px;" title="JoomlaWorks AllVideos Player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></object></span><a class="avLightbox" href="http://stirigay.ro/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=309:exclusive-interview-david-pereira-&catid=29:english&Itemid=96#AVPlayerID_bc576382" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #a9235c; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Click to view video in a lightbox popup">Dim lights</a></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong><img alt="David Pereira" height="536" src="http://stirigay.ro/images/stories/davidperen.jpg" style="float: right; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; margin-top: 3px;" width="400" />Now we want to enter a bit in the world of David Pereira, the man not the artist. Are you in a relationship or single?</strong>I am single and very happy.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Do you have time for personal life? What do you like most? One of your true delights?</strong>Yes, sure, I have time for me but as I said before, I'm always in different places so I can't for example be in a school of dance learning more time or study something. That's the only problem I think.<br />
Have a lot of fun with good people around is an amazing feeling, I love it! Good food or sleep, I love them both.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>What is the positive side of David, the man? And the negative one?</strong>Positive: I know and I do live the life. Moments, for me are everything.<br />
Negative: I am very exigent with people and also with myself.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Are there any moments when you feel trully alone?</strong>Normally no, because I'm always surrounded by good people.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>What are your future plans? Where do you see yourself in the future?</strong>I want to do advertising, start to dance hard again, study something... But everything has it's moment and everything will arrive. All you have to do is work hard, live the process and create the moment.<br />
In the future, I see myself as a director/choreographer in a big world agency, creating big tours, circus creations, tv, advertising... That's what I want.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"></div><div id="disqus_thread" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><div class="clearfix" id="dsq-content" style="display: block; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;"><div class="dsq-community-preview" id="dsq-global-toolbar" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><table class="dsq-global-toolbar-container" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-collapse: separate; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: none; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; width: 710px;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table></div></div></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"></div>Romania Gay Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08432814124803175712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782663136076708179.post-86937190252012062072010-09-18T03:38:00.000-07:002010-09-18T03:38:55.254-07:00EXCLUSIVE: East Bloc Love, the documentary about sexuality that will film in Romania<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisXgE7noxZP3YLE6v_6PoZcrKVNbxEnyyzvABMVazn0loN8JgmsxEydwyCpV8qEkj3fgt3Z1HPIiw-6jQsPcjG1s6Xq8j3EHjmbdqnQNQgFecnbkUA9rMSRW95oWXLqyd__BJzFOqpCe8/s1600/fugue-night_16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisXgE7noxZP3YLE6v_6PoZcrKVNbxEnyyzvABMVazn0loN8JgmsxEydwyCpV8qEkj3fgt3Z1HPIiw-6jQsPcjG1s6Xq8j3EHjmbdqnQNQgFecnbkUA9rMSRW95oWXLqyd__BJzFOqpCe8/s320/fugue-night_16.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 18px;">Logan Mucha, a young filmaker born in Canada, raised in Australia, choosed Romania, among other countries, as a source for his future project, the documentary East Bloc Love. Logan wants to explore the sexual identities and their changes in former sovietic influenced countries and his project already announces to be a succes.</span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Logan will begin filming in Romania at the end of March and, although he studied deeply the Romanian sexual minorities and their development, he found out that people are still closeted and negative when it comes to sharing experiences.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">He contacted <strong><a href="http://StiriGay.ro/">StiriGay.ro</a></strong> to ease the interaction with the Romanian LGBT community. He is interested in finding people that can speak freely on tape in order to make a honest profile of the minorities in Romania. He is seeking people, not only LGBT persons, but friends and family members too or gay friendly people.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>StiriGay.ro</strong> made an exclusive interview with Logan Mucha.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>What made you choose Romania among the other countries for your documentary, East Bloc Love?</strong>I really wanted the documentary to explore different sexual identities across the former Soviet Bloc and within countries strongly influenced by the Soviet Occupation. I am very interested in showing different aspects of sexuality from all different perspectives, including how they have evolved since the fall of Communism.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">I have chosen Romania as it was one of the last European countries to decriminalise homosexual activity and is still a largely conservative society. In particular, the ongoing struggle between LGBT rights groups and parties such as the Greater Romania Party and Noua Dreaptă is of great interest, as while being homosexual is no longer illegal, the acceptance of LGBT sexual identities is still progressing slowly.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong><img alt="Logan Mucha's travel kit" height="300" src="http://stirigay.ro/images/stories/documentar.jpg" style="float: right; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; margin-top: 3px;" width="400" />How do you think that the dictatorship and communism influenced our sexuality?</strong>With the fall of communism, the Eastern Bloc has been slowly associating western concepts of non-hetero conforming sexuality into clearly defined categories of 'gay' and 'lesbian'. Within Romania, the introduction of NGOs promoting GLBT rights has endorsed such categories, further labelling one's sexual preference as a personal identity.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Significant financial assistance for Romanian NGOs, such as ACCEPT, is largely donated from Western authorities. To keep their funding, these organisations are compelled to follow practices common in Western Europe, such as conducting HIV education and prevention programs. While such practices are well-meaning in intention, publically linking the transmission of STDs to the practice of homosexual acts does little to promote a positive LGBT image in a conservative society.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Current dissemination of LGBT identities through NGOs in Romania is rapidly occurring while society remains largely rejecting of such minorities. Right-wing organisations and the Eastern Orthodox Church are readily utilising these newly introduced categorised identities - i.e. 'gay', 'lesbian', 'bisexual', 'transexual' etc. - to discriminate against previously undefined sexual groups.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>How do you describe your artwork?</strong>As a young filmmaker, I would describe my work in a constant state of change, however I do have a number of filmmakers and styles in which I take influence from, which is reflected in some of my work including German Expressionism and directors such as Lars von Trier.<br />
Overall, I prefer my film making to be less prescriptive in its story telling to the audience, allowing for more freedom of interpretation and a more enjoyable cinematic experience.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>What are your future plans?</strong>At present I'm completely focused on East Bloc Love and if successful, I would like to continue exploring sexual minorities in other areas of the world and even in my home country of Australia.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">I'm also interested in writing and directing music videos and have a very strong interest in script writing for film and theatre.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Is it better to remain independent (freelancer) or you want to have success in mainstream industry?</strong>I'm not averse to becoming part of the more main stream industry, as long as my creative freedom and integrity as a film maker is not compromised in the process. Many of my influences have established themselves as successful members of the film industry, whilst still maintaining their individuality.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Given the choice, I would always choose to work on projects, whether mine or someone else's, that fit my individuality without sacrificing it all for some big budget blockbuster that didn't fit my filmmaking.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Tell us a bit about the man behind the artist.</strong>I was born in Canada to English and Canadian parents and moved to Melbourne, Australia when I was about four years old.<br />
I grew up in a particularly conservative area of Melbourne where being openly gay led to verbal abuse and possibly more, so I didn't come out to my family until I was about 20, after I had moved into the city centre.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Since I was in my early teens I wanted to make films but pressure from my parents led me down a path of science and mathematics.<br />
After finishing a degree in environmental engineering in 2006, I finally decided to pursue my dream in film and went to film school.<br />
It's all been up from there, including one of my films being accepted to be screened at the Melbourne International Queer Film Festival in 2010 and the ongoing production of East Bloc Love.</div>Romania Gay Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08432814124803175712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782663136076708179.post-29121282678869649042010-09-18T03:35:00.000-07:002010-09-18T03:35:16.285-07:00Are Romanians pro or against gay adoptions? When we'll ask this question in the culinarry shows?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcuJ8Q1vFvMy0JpDmC5oPuIWwIzXI17Qw441RvQaj0F-VSm84bBDWHItPH7F5J4zZ3EwWXOd65pzJ-VcUDAN5G8WxVUXRM7Oo11YA02jBWuWU4F3_Blb9QTMvT1GoF46_nu61kzyt74aY/s1600/bebe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcuJ8Q1vFvMy0JpDmC5oPuIWwIzXI17Qw441RvQaj0F-VSm84bBDWHItPH7F5J4zZ3EwWXOd65pzJ-VcUDAN5G8WxVUXRM7Oo11YA02jBWuWU4F3_Blb9QTMvT1GoF46_nu61kzyt74aY/s200/bebe.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 18px;">An article posted Wednesday on the <a href="http://www.radio21.ro/site/fabricaDementa/stiri/content/id/9827/Romanii_nu_sunt_pregatiti_sa_accepte_adoptiile_facute_de_cuplurile_gay.html" style="color: #a9235c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Radio 21 website</a> caught my attention. The article followed an entertainment show and they tried as they could to be objective. But the adoptions in gay couples didn't seem to me as a subject for a funny show.</span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">I couldn't realise from that article if the Romanians are pro or against and, honestly, I didn't interrested me. It's like asking me if I am pro or against adoptions in straight couples. Don't take it like that, what interests me is that those children we are talking about to have a shelter.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"></div><a name='more'></a><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">If you are straight, in order to adopt a child you must pass all sorts of psychological, financial, social tests. I can't see what's the difference if a gay or a lesbian tries to offer a shelter to a child. He or she must pass the same tests, too.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Anyway, instead of having children that will end abused in orphanages or going straight to the streets or worse, products for the black market, it is better for them to have a family.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">There was always the discussion about (I feel it's useless to repeat) homosexuality that is not a psychological disease or that all gays are born in straight couples.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">I'm scared about the media boom when a gay child will come from a gay couple. Or when a 16 years child will tell to his gay parents that he's straight, what a tragedy for that poor happy gay familiy.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">But until then, the problem should be managed a bit different from it is now.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">You should do something for those poor children that are raised in human farms without the minimum spiritual support. You should think about the social system that I can't say it's useless but with the actual laws what can it do? You should think that I can make and raise a child myself so why this circus? You shoud think at the percentage of this kids that end up as criminals. You should think...</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Yes, it's easier to copy models and create fake problems. It's not a gay or a lesbian or a transgender or a drag queen, the problems of modern Romania. Their only fault is that they stayed hidden in the last period, they did their work and they accepted the mean thinghs and the irony from the people that care so much about thousands of children abbandoned in orphanages.</div>Romania Gay Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08432814124803175712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782663136076708179.post-50871720502982786952010-09-18T03:32:00.000-07:002010-09-18T03:32:38.116-07:00Serious case of child pornography solved by the police in Timisoara<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2C7ANDXRsuG2SdGoW3RfuGjKny42dU57NxRcNeWWjzEw5U7xv0Sa7of1vvYG3t7ScFIFBxNDoW1TmLl5WUVzP-T0pGHpT9IW-EPQ88DJCbYIIB1FBKcNxx9wagldVkn_l-4lbwygQjlA/s1600/descindere-mascati.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2C7ANDXRsuG2SdGoW3RfuGjKny42dU57NxRcNeWWjzEw5U7xv0Sa7of1vvYG3t7ScFIFBxNDoW1TmLl5WUVzP-T0pGHpT9IW-EPQ88DJCbYIIB1FBKcNxx9wagldVkn_l-4lbwygQjlA/s320/descindere-mascati.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 18px;">A Romanian porn movie producer and pedophile was arrested Thursday morning in Timisoara, after a tip sent by american authorities was received by the Romanian Police, announced <a href="http://stirileprotv.ro/stiri/eveniment/perchezitii-in-timis-vizand-o-retea-specializata-in-pornografie-infantila.html" style="color: #a9235c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">PRO TV</a>.</span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">A man from Timisoara build a bussiness based on hurting poor children. For years, he took home boys, all under 18. There, they were having sexual relations with the 35 years old man for a small amount of money. Everything was recorded on tape and then sold on websites dealing child pornography for a lot of cash.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"></div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">The pedophile was arrested by Special Forces of the Police when he was at his home, in a quiet neighborhood from Timisoara residencial area. He was living there in a rented appartment that he changed regularly because he knew that Police was chasing him. The authorities said that when he was arrested, in his home were found three boys of aproximately 15 years old.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">The case was solved with the help of the US investigators that found informations about the Romanian movie producer since 2006 when they arrested a local pedophile. FBI toghether with Interpol and Bucharest based Organised Crime Brigade of the Romanian Police did enormous efforts to catch the suspect.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">For four hours, the policemen searched the producer's home to find evidences. Now, he is at the District Attorney's Office for hearings. The boys found in his house are retained for hearings too, according to <a href="http://stirileprotv.ro/stiri/eveniment/perchezitii-in-timis-vizand-o-retea-specializata-in-pornografie-infantila.html" style="color: black; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">PRO TV News</a>.</div>Romania Gay Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08432814124803175712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782663136076708179.post-84229266368065262922010-09-18T03:29:00.000-07:002010-09-18T03:29:50.305-07:00Gay soldier killed in action in Afghanistan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh88d53fueFwa8R5-c7GJBTv6TO2Uyav7mrdGzoEOjg_iMg6uqkFaRsl9Fr1-TDoZDtQsExRahf1l8bDjiV2Q91vn_QXGZtWZuNjikChlSsaCHftbKNGWeUtQjJK0iSbU-dpVgDgwJVi5o/s1600/us-soldiers-afghanistan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh88d53fueFwa8R5-c7GJBTv6TO2Uyav7mrdGzoEOjg_iMg6uqkFaRsl9Fr1-TDoZDtQsExRahf1l8bDjiV2Q91vn_QXGZtWZuNjikChlSsaCHftbKNGWeUtQjJK0iSbU-dpVgDgwJVi5o/s320/us-soldiers-afghanistan.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 18px;">Congressman Jim Moran read a letter on the floor of the House of Representatives wednesday from an active duty soldier in Afghanistan. Congressman Moran stated that the soldier had, "learned that a fellow soldier was also gay, only after he was killed by an IED in Iraq.</span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">The partner of the deceased soldier wrote the unit to say how much the victim had loved the military; how they were the only family he had ever known." The soldier originally provided the letter in response to an inquiry for the Pentagon's current study of "don't ask, don't tell."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"></div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">This is the second publicly known case of a gay soldier killed in action during the current wars in the Middle East. The first was U.S. Army Major Alan Rogers, who died while on patrol in Iraq in January, 2008. Statisticians have estimated that more than 200 gay and lesbian service members have perished since the onset of the conflict. Military leaders this week suggested in Congressional hearings that gay and lesbian troops disrupt the force.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Dr. Nathaniel Frank stated that, "It is important to honor the sacrifice of all American troops, and we do so today and always." Frank is Senior Research Fellow at the <a href="http://www.palmcenter.ucsb.edu/" style="color: #a9235c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Palm Center</a>.</div>Romania Gay Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08432814124803175712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782663136076708179.post-8238455233829682872010-09-18T03:17:00.000-07:002010-09-18T03:17:19.289-07:00EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Brianna Caradja, the Gay Friendly Princess of Romania<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 18px;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRBd9YpsKtHmyMnPK-e5owgDxihk9IWNBq8iDZlyUVt-PxrWYK56ehXcNjuGVSfJW9mNzrx6vVnp3qNfM2ow2EHYkNsWqMU0BcpXbnm-qT0o2O-YSoMTwuNclnTcYbOiUOPhHMddHrwWE/s1600/Brianna.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRBd9YpsKtHmyMnPK-e5owgDxihk9IWNBq8iDZlyUVt-PxrWYK56ehXcNjuGVSfJW9mNzrx6vVnp3qNfM2ow2EHYkNsWqMU0BcpXbnm-qT0o2O-YSoMTwuNclnTcYbOiUOPhHMddHrwWE/s320/Brianna.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Brianna Caradja is the most important gay symbol of modern Romania. She is a Princess, she is straight and she is gay friendly. So the gay community adopted her as their asset, a Romanian version of a Princess Diana. Brianna speaked freely in an exclusive interview for StiriGay.ro about her relationship with the community, about her unfortunate experiences with her ex-husband and about her future as a supporter of the Romanian Gay movement.</strong></div><strong>Although you're not a member of the LGBT community, you rapidly become a symbol of it because of your gay friendly atitude and, even more, because you are a supporter of the community. What was the experience or who did you ended to be close to the gays?</strong><br />
I like the way you put the question. :))) Exactly, I am not a member because I am totally straight. But, I am adopted by the community. I love telling that because it describes best this situation.<a name='more'></a><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"> So, I hope that (once an for all) we made it clear about my relationship with the gay community. Otherwise, I want you to do a campaign to "Adopt the Princess", and finally enlighten the Romanian media.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">I'm a supporter because I can't stand blind, stupid or uninformed discrimination. I always had gay friends and I consider them normals.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">The media "Big-Bang" started in 2005 when I participated at the first Romanian Gay Pride. The phone rang all day, I gave a lot of interviews, I was filmed and pictured almost non-stop. Then they started the unavoidable comments, in pure Romanian style. If I add the fact that I went to the Parades in 2006 and 2007, then it's clear why I was labeled. Now I can honestly tell everyone that I enhale smoke from the police smoke-grenades as much as you did (who went to the Parades, knows).</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">As for the symbol, I must thank all of you for that. You made me a symbol, you loved me. I only love you in return. :)</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Why do you think that the public image of the Romanian gay community is so bad and, if you could, what would you do to improve it?</strong>It is not that bad... it's only misrepresented. And it is in this way because of the media that covers only what is ridiculous, easy to see or cartoon like.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">When you deal with an activist march (unfortunately, we are far away from a real Pride Parade), you must not put in front a dozen of drag queens and in the back 300 people!!! The result is unavoidable: a true hard work turns into a cartoon in seconds.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Don't get me wrong, I have drag queen friends but when you try to send a message, you must stay sober, unfortunately.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">The reality is simple and I comment it only with you. For now, you need to gain recognition and RESPECT! Then you can add feathers, glitter and glamour on the boulevard. Then, I'd love to see more public persons involved and supporting the community (although I'll become madly jealous because I want to be the sole "adopted").</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>In the last days, you were in all sorts of media scandals with your ex-husband and his boyfriend. What's you version of the story?</strong>The oldest story in the world: I was scammed big time! It could be worse but I realised on time before he took everything and now he wants revenge. For this he started all sorts of media statements and "tips" for some newspapers. His "boyfriend" wants to be a star. I saw him already with two names and three jobs. He made me a lesbian and a fraud... He doesn't know what to do next but it is better this way because he faults himself.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Last of it: I have no debts to pay to this "monkey"! All the trials he started have just one purpose: to ruin my image as much as possible.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">And the thing with the deal regarding me selling them my egg-cells: be serious, it is terrible to use such lies in a country where the subject "gay couples with kids" is beyond controversial. It is ridiculous and beside the troubles they did to me, these statemens took back the discussion about this subject to the level for some years ago. Shame on them because they say they are gay. They ruined the work others did with enormous efforts. And all of this was made from pure selfishness and cheap vendetta.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">This useless war, beyond the private aspects, makes a bad image to the gay community and I am sorry for that. All my gay friends are horrified and all these started when I still had the show on Radio Purple. If I was "weaker", I should retreat but no, I didn't. I want to thank to all of my listeners from that time that supported me and gave me the impulse and the courage every night !!! Those were the moments I felt best even I was in the middle of the storm.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>How deals your rebel public image with the rigorous image of a princess?</strong>Very well! We're in the 21st century. The so called "rigorous image" exists only in the imagination of some people that mixes the title, with you are born, with stories from long, long times ago. I still meet people that think I must keep a distance to the people. Eventually I must close myself in a (ivory) tower and see only the people that asked a princiarry hearing. Honestly, I hardly understand what's in their minds, how they imagine a Princess. Usually, they are the same persons that criticised me for attending the Gay Prides for ruining my image, etc., etc. You can jump on the conclusions.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>You are extremelly spontaneous and friendly. What is the routine of your meetings with the gay gang of friends?</strong>There are no "routines" and "gay gang" sounds like a ghetto thing. I have a lot of friends, some that don't know eachother because of their different activities. With some I sort out to the clubs, with others I drink a coffee or I just chat...</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">But let me tell you something really funny about "my best gay friend". I know him for a long time. Years. He ruined me three relationships for various reasons: for example he could not like one of them, at all. He is totally into my life and when he becomes jealous, nobody comes near me. (Really, his moustache starts to shiver and he throws killing looks) He criticises everything (my hair colour, my outfit, my lipstick colour). He is turning my house upside down until he is satisfied about how it looks (then I can't find anything for a couple of weeks). A true tyrant, a despot, a dictator!!</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Did you ever had troubles because you are close to the LGBT community?</strong>Except for some stupid comments in the garbage media and some "friends" that I mentioned already, no. It is funny but I have more troubles because of my ex-husband's lover that tries to convince everybody that I'm a famous lesbian.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Will you continue to be present in the media on behalf of the community and, if yes, what would you like most: press, TV or continuing your radio show?</strong>Of course! The experience from Purple Radio was extraordinary. But this time I think it would be better to have a serious management. And if I'll see a Gay Tv in Romania, I'll do a two hours show weekly. Two hours minimum! Live!</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>What are your future project on this side of your life, the gay movement?</strong>Hello... I'm a person not an NGO! To do something, I need an active organisation. Of course, I'll speak when I can about the gay community as I did all this time, but this is "on my own".<br />
I have a message for the organisers of the 2010 Romanian Gay Pride Parade!!! We're celebrating 5 years of Pride in Romania. It deserves something special! But I want to know that they will ask firmly to the authorities not to authorise IN THE SAME DAY the march of the anti-gay organisations like "Noua Dreapta". They must do it when they make the papers to the authorities and ask for the permission for a specific date for the event.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Of course, for democratic and freedom of speech reasons, they are allowed to march too. But, from past years experience, we have reasons to belive that their march being in the same spot and only few hours earlier in the same day, was nothing but a ARROUSEMENT TO VIOLENCE!!!! So, the authorities can approve their march in other day, one day after if they want. It is perfectly legal and totally motivated. I hope they'll hear me because it is extremely important.</div>Romania Gay Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08432814124803175712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782663136076708179.post-27624243049197477202010-09-18T03:14:00.000-07:002010-09-18T03:14:39.801-07:00What are you willing to do in order to have a child?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2AuSVF2kblm3C9X0SjbmT28q90P0ofp89dB31dW3XMr4QwnsetJRA3YZMF5smBCGZCtr1NjM3P2BzKnoTsxm_izZJdryyfKlIeHJLHV3sU6fFx_XhFFT8fA59oKDHRCvY8fJvOLJGI3Y/s1600/copy2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2AuSVF2kblm3C9X0SjbmT28q90P0ofp89dB31dW3XMr4QwnsetJRA3YZMF5smBCGZCtr1NjM3P2BzKnoTsxm_izZJdryyfKlIeHJLHV3sU6fFx_XhFFT8fA59oKDHRCvY8fJvOLJGI3Y/s320/copy2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 18px;">Marriage and children are rights not recognised for gays in most of the countries. Once it will be legalised, the step to normality will be complete but until then it's a lot a work to do. What should they do?</span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">To lie, to pretend they are straight, to fool a girl to make them a child? To do a deal with a lesbian and make their dreams come true together? Use the power of money and buy a child from a surogate mother? What is the correct or moral measure? Even more, how normal is to use such scams in order to fulfill a human right?</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Today, <strong><a href="http://StiriGay.ro/">StiriGay.ro</a></strong> is presenting a case in which reality overcame morality, in Romania. For protection we will use fake names.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Ovidiu is totally gay but wanted a child. He's 45 years old, an accomplished man but with a dream to fulfill.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">"I wanted a child because I felt that something is missing. I had everything: career, house, connections but I wasn't complete. I had to do that", told Ovidiu.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">"The law doesn't allow to a gay man to have a child but a straight one could have one. I gave an ad in the newspaper. Then I married a girl from Moldova. I payed 10.000 euros plus all the expenses with pregnancy, housing, citizenship, etc. Then Razvan was born. I divorced the girl and she ceased me all maternal rights", confessed the happy father.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">The number of gay people using these metods is growing because they need to fulfill their purpose.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Razvan knows that his mother left them for another man. Ovidiu was all this time mother and father to Razvan. Ovidiu's boyfriend was not so delighted about the ideea so they broke up shortly before Razvan was born.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">"I haven't tried to met someone new. I don't think it's because of Razvan although he is taking all my time. I just couldn't", said Ovidiu.<br />
They were lucky. The surogate mother continued her life and in the five years that passed she never showed up in their lives.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">"I think it wasn't easy for her but she needed the money and she choosed this way to obtain it, that's better than prostitution", concluded Ovidiu.</div>Romania Gay Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08432814124803175712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782663136076708179.post-15062912603537032702010-09-18T03:11:00.000-07:002010-09-18T03:11:59.727-07:00SPECIAL: Shakira, drag queen: I managed to be ME in my dear small country<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ9-g4ojMtowU3jlVueyUAfPrrPCHT1yFyYyZkhlybYU7HOXrm3KPGpAeM1Ewe5VnhpGdtQ05JWYQkWP1huTS_Cp6Uxq83uqQcgwzfWPa80_QDQyDt8CT1K2wDWx7k9DxIOT64TPVi9QM/s1600/Shakira0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ9-g4ojMtowU3jlVueyUAfPrrPCHT1yFyYyZkhlybYU7HOXrm3KPGpAeM1Ewe5VnhpGdtQ05JWYQkWP1huTS_Cp6Uxq83uqQcgwzfWPa80_QDQyDt8CT1K2wDWx7k9DxIOT64TPVi9QM/s320/Shakira0.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 18px;">Despite all the homophobia and mean stuff, Shakira manages to say about him that he is a happy person, that he feels good in Romania and that life offered him enough to consider himself a lucky man. He learned to survive in a jungle that hates you only because you dare to be different.</span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">With the drag queens group, he was sensational and if at the beginning they were only a freak show, thru artistic quality they changed the preconceived image about themselves. They were adored by gays and straight as well, they performed in gay clubs as well as in clubs that you'll never said a drag queen will ever enter.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">But who's hiding behind the drag? A man is the main answer. Ok, but what's hiding behind the man? If you think a little you'll realise that not the clothes or the glam make-up makes him feel like a woman but he considers like that. What is hiding there where even the words are hard to tell, we'll find out straight from Shakira. StiriGay.ro invited her to tell us, in a small interview, about the person that's hiding behind the man.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong><img alt="Shakira" height="266" src="http://stirigay.ro/images/stories/Shakira1.jpg" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; margin-top: 3px;" width="200" />He feels good in his skin</strong><br />
"How could I begin if not telling you that I am Lucian. I could be anybody, Marius, Mihai or even you, the one that reads these lines. I could be ME if I was born in another era or another country. But I was born here and I'm happy with what I accomplished. I'm not complaning because I managed to be ME even here in my dear small country, a simple man, with good or bad things, sometimes impulsive or forgiver or happy, a drag that feels good in his skin."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Time is the same everywhere</strong><br />
"Until recently I lived in Bucharest and everybody knows me, yes, it's me, Shakira. I used myself very hard with the traffic and speed of the city. At my place, in Transylvania, it's quieter and people are more calm that in Bucharest. Recently I moved back at home, in Sfantu Gheorghe. It's a small and beautiful city but you have not so many options to spend time. In the morning I stay and drink my coffee mug. It's not so tireing but it's home and time is the same everwhere."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Love balance is unequal</strong><br />
"In love, I could say I was spoiled and I had the best love stories I could. With passing time, I look behind and from that point of view I feel happy because I received and I offered love even the balance wasn't always equal, sometimes I offered more."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong><img alt="Shakira" height="303" src="http://stirigay.ro/images/stories/Shakira2.jpg" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; margin-top: 3px;" width="200" />About the drag show</strong><br />
"With the drag queen shows I made a lot of friends but a lot of enemies too. The society was't accepting always those things but slowly, slowly, slowly..."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Sexual Orientation</strong><br />
"I didn't hide myself and my orientation or what I do because I had special parents and friends that accepted me for who I am. Because of that I consider myself to be a happy person."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>What makes you so happy</strong><br />
"As long as you have next to you quality people, and I am not reffering to school diplomas or money but to people with soul, and you are surrounded with friends, you cand consider yourself happy otherwise you can consider ALONE."</div>Romania Gay Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08432814124803175712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782663136076708179.post-33413344812177535312010-09-18T02:56:00.000-07:002010-09-18T03:03:18.481-07:00STIRIGAY.RO EXCLUSIVE: Why Romanian Stars are not assuming their sexuality?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjN921andqgCc628Avy1hvCWXZYLGtB0lKN_6tOxQv7WMfM0phMxoVuO_BZz2ZcZYNWELgVNn2iyjIAP0o7zKDjoltGz6wRLhsL5mMEvonu38i8G7EitgfZurw98w_HGGAJbSWYb8mMYk/s1600/copymain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjN921andqgCc628Avy1hvCWXZYLGtB0lKN_6tOxQv7WMfM0phMxoVuO_BZz2ZcZYNWELgVNn2iyjIAP0o7zKDjoltGz6wRLhsL5mMEvonu38i8G7EitgfZurw98w_HGGAJbSWYb8mMYk/s320/copymain.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 18px;">It's not a secret to anyone that the sexuality of our gay stars is a taboo. They prefer to stay hidden, to avoid commentaries or to make statements, many of them having buffer-relations between them and the press. Why are they doing it?</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Maybe because the society isn't prepaired, maybe because they are advised to do so, maybe because it is harder for a gay to make it to the top in Romanian showbiz. Or maybe because they feel they are not members of this community. A lot of possibilities that <strong><a href="http://StiriGay.ro/">StiriGay.ro</a></strong> is trying to solve together with the editor of<a href="http://VoxPublica.realitatea.net/" style="color: #a9235c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">VoxPublica</a> and famous journalist, <strong>Costi Rogozanu</strong>and the psychologist and permanent advisor of our site, <strong>Sorin Georgescu</strong>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Why Romanian Stars are not assuming their sexuality publicly although about many of them everybody knows unofficialy that they are gay?</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"></span></div><a name='more'></a><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Sorin Georgescu:</strong> An answer could be given related to the culture and education and the knowledge of the phenomenon (In Romania, the knowledge, where exists, is diformed especially by the people that suppose to explain it).</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">The culture, for most of the societies where the system was communist-dictatorship had at basys the feeling of fear (even panic) that was induces on purpose by the government to the mass because they were different from the mass. The mass then looked at the "others", the "different ones", with intolerance and inadequate, all of this on top of the lack of sexual education.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">So it seems we are trained to not accept diversity in sexual area as well as we are hardly accepting it in all other domains, less sensitive that the sexual one (politics, for example).</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Basicly, the majority is thinking like the world is as wide as I can think or feel "myself". Anything that is beyond these limits is bad, decadent, unacceptable. And the conffusion seems to me that was fueled by some of the members of the LGBT community in a way that, concious or unconcious, they are not assuming totally their status and their tendencies.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Costi Rogozanu:</strong> Because for the moment there is not an immediate reason to admit publicly the sexual identity. You have more to suffer than to gain if you assume it. There's this guy on Acasa TV that is a sort of a media hero but I think that the costs are still to big for him assuming that he is gay. The attitude is still powerfully retrograde from the public and from the media producers too.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>What could happen if they are doing it?</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Costi Rogozanu:</strong> There is a risk in the media that still exists everywhere, not only in Romania that everybody will talk only about that. You could be the best scubadiver, archaeologist, but everybody will talk only about that you are gay, not about your professional accomplishments. Soon you'll be sick about all that talking about your sexuality. How would it be if everybody would talk all day long about our Prime Minister, Emil Boc that he is straight. It is irrelevant. A Romanian risk for this is the delicate elimination from the "serious people's league", meaning that if you admit that you are gay, you suddenly become a circus freak, either you want, either you don't. And nobody wants that.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Sorin Georgescu:</strong> The loss of a status that was obtained before the orientation of the individual was known or recognised by the close entourage in he evolved or acceded, will diminish or even lose the previous acquisitions on the proffesional image. It's about association with a pervert, imoral or unstable profile, in other words, unworthy to keep such a position or such a status.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Is it possible that they are afraid not to be associated with the controversial image of the persons that appear everyday on TV and that now are considered symbols of the Romanian gay community?</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Costi Rogozanu: </strong>Yes, they are ridiculise the community as well as the major of 5th district in Bucharest is ridiculising the straight community. These risks exist all the time. But it shouldn't be a hold in expressing public some serious discrimination or perception issues.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Sorin Georgescu:</strong> It's a natural fear and I could say it's based on the uncertainty of some members of the community to assume their own tendencies. Here the media had a bad influence because they promoted (for rating's sake) people that are not an honour for any community and especially for the gay one it raises the level of unacceptance and untolerance.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong><img alt="copy-1" height="188" src="http://stirigay.ro/images/stories/copy-1.jpg" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; margin-top: 3px;" width="250" />Do you think that the coming out of the stars will help the LGBT community?</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Costi Rogozanu: </strong>Yes, if instead of the cheap drags from TV a professor from a University wil talk about the gay people, everybody will have something to gain. There are so less serious studies, history books or analysis of the gay destiny in Romania. We know just a few of the scandals framed by Securitate (communist secret police) in some gay communities from the 40's or 50's. But a cheap tv star couldn't write about all these stuff. It must be an intellectual involved it clearing all these missing links and he must be ready to assume some risks. It's obvious that it must be developed a new language that crosses beyond the fake dillema "is it or it is not gay" and passes to the next level, "the sexual orientation has no importance more than the ID serial number" but it is very important the man or his message.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>What is the public perception of the LGBT community?</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Sorin Georgescu:</strong> For each section of LGBT, dominant are intolerance and unacceptance, with the difference that each of the sections has different levels of perception concerning agressivity and unacceptance.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>What is the community's opinon on the community?</strong><br />
We asked the <strong>StiriGay.ro</strong> fans from our Facebook page what is their's opinion on public image of the Romanian gay community. We chose two answers, one from a foreigner and one from a Romanian guy.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">"I don't know much about Romanian gay community but I can say I don't know much about modern Romania. After all, it might be a general identity problem of Romanian at the level of individual perception in Europe", told us a gay reader, 40 years old, an Englishman living in Paris.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">"What can I tell ... In Romania, in the last few years I noticed a better opening especially in the big cities like Bucharest or Constanta where the people are more tolerant and more open", said a Romanian reader, 29 years from Constanta.</div></span>Romania Gay Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08432814124803175712noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782663136076708179.post-78657106436928928602010-09-18T02:52:00.000-07:002010-09-18T03:04:38.414-07:00Steaua’s owner is throwing homophobic things to footballers on the Media Pro channels<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQX0z-qL8tisPJq0pXgVVUVo6ukqcWkwsvLmxqyK4_U3VLXQoTSHR_rWPPA0osO2dv-kJpDkUMXtmiLEGKa86lSjoL0vgKINtOAHcoq84N9DT6pxvHmeF8UP5sRzZRXdnl32wE70k1TkY/s1600/becali.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQX0z-qL8tisPJq0pXgVVUVo6ukqcWkwsvLmxqyK4_U3VLXQoTSHR_rWPPA0osO2dv-kJpDkUMXtmiLEGKa86lSjoL0vgKINtOAHcoq84N9DT6pxvHmeF8UP5sRzZRXdnl32wE70k1TkY/s320/becali.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 18px;">Gigi Becali, who is also a member in European Parliament, was extremely agressive verbally with a bulgarian football player only because people think he is gay. He is so hypocrite that he thinks this is not discrimination but it is personal opinion. And like all these are normal, the news was heavy promoted on the medias belonging to Media Pro Group.</span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>Here you can read the original news as it was on the<a href="http://www.sport.ro/liga-1/de-ce-nu-l-a-vrut-becali-pe-ivanov-la-steaua-decat-sa-iau-un-gay-mai-bine-jucam-cu-juniorii.html" style="color: #a9235c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">sport.ro</a> site</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Why didn't Becali wanted Ivanov to play at Steaua: "Instead of taking a gay, I preffer playing with the juniors"</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">The owner of Steaua Bucharest football team said that he canceled the deal for the transfer of the bulgarian player Ivanov because he heard some rumors about him being gay.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Gigi Becali told the media that he would never ever transfer to Steaua a player with other sexual orientations except straight and that he preffers to grow footballers from junior team.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"></div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">"Even if I have to close Steaua, I will never take a gay in my team. The rumors are rumors but if you write such a thing and put in on the first page of the newspapers... Maybe it is a lie. But what if he is really gay?", said the wealthy owner at Sport Total FM.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">"In my family, never ever will be a gay man and Steaua is my family. Istead of a gay it will be better to play with the juniors. To me this is not discrimination. No one can force me to work with somebody. I have the right to work with whom I like as they have their own rights", told Becali at the radio show.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Read more news in: <a href="http://stirigay.ro/">stirigay.ro</a></div>Romania Gay Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08432814124803175712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782663136076708179.post-61571232773835725452010-09-18T02:48:00.000-07:002010-09-18T03:06:29.052-07:00SPECIAL: Confessions of a gay couple<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfBxGdBGeJckZD_vDcv0uEBZbTBNk8XJEzKaGKG5PnirD9liFpWtGk1hAXe9uhiQL447I-0ltmWBWkmmmeiR7yAOSPu48Yyp2SMwmsVV_UxM2yHQOAP0Msd986rGB585nVSb3FJXTTOug/s1600/poza-main.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfBxGdBGeJckZD_vDcv0uEBZbTBNk8XJEzKaGKG5PnirD9liFpWtGk1hAXe9uhiQL447I-0ltmWBWkmmmeiR7yAOSPu48Yyp2SMwmsVV_UxM2yHQOAP0Msd986rGB585nVSb3FJXTTOug/s320/poza-main.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 18px;">Marius and Cristi are two young romanians who share life as a couple for 10 years. They met on the web. Cristi is from a small town and Marius from Bucharest. They had the opportunity to tell as all the details of their relationship, exclusively for <strong>StiriGay.ro</strong>.</span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">"I don't know what attracted me at him but we loved to chat. He was so mysterious, not giving any information about him, not a picture and avoiding any chat too intimate", told us Marius.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"></div><a name='more'></a><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">They met in Cristi's town.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">"I slipped the invite on the messenger. I didn't expected to come but he accepted instantly and then I become stressed about what will I'll tell to my parents. I was living with them at that time but they didn't knew that I was gay. I invented a story about a friend but I couldn't provide too many details because I didn't knew him at all. He came and I was waiting him at the train station. I was so nervous because it was the first meeting of that kind. I had all sorts of scenarios in my head: how is he, how is he looking, etc", remembered Cristi for <strong>StiriGay.ro</strong>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">After that visit, Cristi went to meet Marius in Bucharest and remained there.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">"He was super scared. He didn't wanted to go out in the clubs, he was hiding all the time so that nobody can see him. Thank God he ended that", said Marius.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">The relationship wasn't always like heaven. They passed thru a lot of tries, challenges, tests but they learned to overcome the troubles thru understanding and communication.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">"We don't have a lot of friends from the gay community. We tried but all the time it ended bad. Either they started to gossip about us either they were making sexual offers to one of us. So we started to avoid all that", tells Marius.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">"We went out to the clubs. It's a beautiful feeling to feel free to do anything you want without hiding from somebody and see that everybody around you are like yourself or at least they understand you. Of course we want to have gay friends. Maybe we will when we'll meet those couples that don't mix things and have just a beautiful friendship", confessed Cristi.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">The moment when Cristi get out of the closet for his family is one of the hardest moments of his life.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">He is sad when he remembers: "With my mother I didn't spoke for two years. She made me feel embarrassed about what I am. Even now she has opposite feelings. On a side she wants to put me in a psychiatry hospital because she thinks I can be cured of my gayness, on the other side she wants me to go to a far away country where I can't embarrass her. I am seeing her once a year and things between us are not the same. For many moments she isn't looking into my eyes. With my father I didn't spoke from that day. I don't know what feels a man after his parent dies but the pain from those days was terrible".</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">In Marius's case, his parents knew about him, they were dealing with his option but only as an affair, not as a stable relationship. From the moment that Marius and Cristi became a couple, Marius's parents tried everything they could to separate them.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">"When they saw that it is nothing to break us apart, they launched a bomb: the house will be sold and they were moving to the countryside. They sold it, load the furniture into a truck and left Cristi, my brother that was in school in Bucharest and me in the middle of the street with luggage and no money. It was a strange and crazy situation those days", said Marius.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">They were stubborn to remain in Romania although the things were not easy at all. Now they are working together in the same company. There were laughs, smiles, jokes but they are good in what they are doing so they gained respect in that company.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">"From the day I told my parents about me, I am not hiding anymore. I had no reason to. I gained my freedom to be what I am. Maybe I was selfish telling them but now I am more calm. The cruelty of the people is unavoidable. You can feel it even if you are straight. The society feels the need to throw stones into somebody. If I wasn't gay, definitely they could found another things to hurt me. It's the way life is. It's all about how you catch these balls and how you respond to them", said Cristi.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">There were moments when they were assaulted by "friends" that thought it's fancy to have gay buddies.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">"We had a lot of so called friends. They were trying to expose themselves with us and started to treat us as monkeys in the ZOO. We were able to cut these bad behaviors and go on our way", told us Marius while smiling.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Asked if they want to marry, Marius said: "We'd love to as a show but what we really need is to find a way to protect each other from the days to come. We are not thinking much about the future, we like to let things go on it's way, but if tomorrow one of us is dying, our families will become a pain for the other one. I understand that we are an orthodox country, that the church does not recognize at all this community but legally it should be easier. We are together for 10 years and we are not sure what the law sais but this year we are going to find a way to do a will or a legal contract between us".</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong>How do the two of them see the future?</strong>Cristi: "Usually we don't see it. We didn't programmed to stay together that much, we are not programming to stay for life, we are not programming anything. All we wanted was to be together and we are".<br />
Marius: "I hope things will evolve as for now. People are becoming more understanding in a fast time. Practically, I can't complain I feel discriminated about my sexual orientation. If the authorities will adapt the laws even for a legal partnership, things will be super cool in Romania".</div>Romania Gay Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08432814124803175712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782663136076708179.post-85817803002989221222010-09-18T02:43:00.000-07:002010-09-18T03:05:28.245-07:00SPECIAL: I made the mistake of watching TV<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkOXBfJucVK3hggm4GrxcAUf8G1xef7brKB8mDQ5FZlzjlrxwdMhuXkj9LIw29NkhhbGfD9_snJAPcm23-9NSnaifEspl8kxmbZ6xwBrd0egUS31B5PLQSNINZ0ihPH6Kr1kPdHg7M8TI/s1600/copy-gay_football.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkOXBfJucVK3hggm4GrxcAUf8G1xef7brKB8mDQ5FZlzjlrxwdMhuXkj9LIw29NkhhbGfD9_snJAPcm23-9NSnaifEspl8kxmbZ6xwBrd0egUS31B5PLQSNINZ0ihPH6Kr1kPdHg7M8TI/s320/copy-gay_football.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336d83; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 18px;">I have this habit of watching TV. Don't ask me why because I don't have an answer. I watch TV like all the normal people. But the folks that appear on TV have this gift of making me sometimes, by their small mind, to make me feel bad in my own home.</span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">I was watching the famous news about the football players making sex in a small romanian city. First published by the Libertatea tabloid then cited on every blog or site, even on those gay themed, or at TV, especially on those stations so called News Channels. Every media was debating the same issue: how could they do such a thing, how could some footballers made sex with eachother. With lines like: "they aren't real football players, they are from far away", "too bad, he was a promising footballer but now his future career is compromised" or "what do gays do in football", did make my stomach feel sick.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Obviously, I wandered what made me feel bad: the news or the stupid comments. The news had nothing to disturb me because I don't think it is so bad that two or more men made sex, even if they are footballers. So the answer is the dirty comments. My instinct told me to turn the other cheek but then I though that you can turn the cheek only if you have somebody to turn it to. If I talk about narrowed mind people I can't see how can my cheek be of any help for them.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Fascinating for me is to see how many views could do a gay news. How many people are ready, like in the Middle Age, to throw stones into a man just because they think he's imoral. And how much joy is on their faces for throwing that stones.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">From my point of view the man that did the stupid think to let him being photographed in such a situation is mistaking because he is not assuming which determines a totally useless bad image. By assuming the situation, the guy that appears with face in the photographs will become overnight a so called TV Star, the porn football player. In the hurry to discover the sensational, media doesn't care about the guy and is interested only in the mass effect he produces. And the tabloid that today presented the gay scandal of the year, tomorrow will present the brand new star of Romania.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Don't understand me wrong, I am talking about the poor footballer because the subject started from that news. He is not the theme of my opinion but the pretext.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">And I am asking again: If you are gay why can't you be a football player? What happens, do you rape your team members? Are you running to catch your fans? I wish I could see this happening!</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">Here are the headlines of the media I was reffering at:</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">"In one of the evenings they drunk wine more than usual and they started to walk naked in the room. They were in quarters with the Minerul football team. They started joking with sexual matters and they ended by doing sex while taking pictures, told a source to the newspaper."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">"Shocking: Footballers making sex with their team members - Pictures forbidden for minors"</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">"In the next day nobody regret anything"</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">"Sex with footballers. When they don't score in the gate, they do it to themselves"</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">"It seems that the footballers from Mineru don't have luck with girls so they decided to do it with their team members. In the quarters, after hours of training, maybe exausted, the boys decided to relax"</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">"(Homo)Sexual Orgies in the second league. The players of Minerul were photographed in unbelievable positions."</div>Romania Gay Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08432814124803175712noreply@blogger.com0