Tag: Romania

The conservative country, where marriage equality is still illegal, had fought the ruling Romania must recognize the residency rights of same-sex spouses of European Union citizens, the Constitutional Court ruled. The historic ruling follows a six-year legal battle, with Romanian citizen Adrian Coman (above) seeking to obtain those rights for his American husband, Claibourn “Cali” Robert Hamilton, who was denied, as marriage equality has still not come to the conservative country. Adrian Coman (L) and his father watch a video call of...

Kentucky county clerk who refused to sign same-sex marriage licenses campaigns against gay marriage ahead of Constitutional vote Kim Davis has taken her anti-gay crusade abroad. Davis is the Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling allowing marriage equality nationwide. Davis said she was acting on God’s authority and did five days of jail time for her refusal to sign the marriage licenses. Now Davis is in Romania seeking to persuade...

I will not try to set a parallel between civilization and underdeveloped countries, but between civilization and my country. Why is my country special? Well, when referring about homosexuality as a part of the spectrum, you are probably used to 2 different perspectives: people that accept diversity and people that reject it. Regardless of the reasons. They simply reject it. That is not the case for Romania, because, unlike the rest of the world’s population, we have 3 different stages: People...

This question has haunted me for the past 10 years or so and I have yet to find an answer to it. Who am I? I could say I am a regular guy, but there is always something behind this statement. None of us are just plain regular. We all have impressive life stories, our own demons to fight with and drama that we need to overcome, but what truly makes you special it is not what you need...

Hello, everyone! I am Marius, from Romania and this is my confession. It has been hard for me to talk to anyone about my problems, because at first I didn’t know exactly what those problems were (I just knew something was off) and then I found them to be too embarrassing to state them out openly. Even if some of them were obvious, like the fact that I consider myself ugly and unappealing. Most likely this is the reason...