Politicians to refrain from homophobic and discriminatory remarks
6 June 2013 – PINK Embassy / LGBT Pro Albania has noticed with particular concern the tendency in recent weeks of several politicians and officials who are using discriminatory and negative remarks for the LGBT community or for issues of sexual orientation and gender identity in the name of narrow and momentary electoral interests.
Almost daily, different politicians are quoted in the media as they offend their fellow politicians and colleagues, during meetings with women, youth and the elderly and accuse them of supporting homosexuality and amorality. Some evoke in a ridiculous way issues of a divine, philosophical or emotional nature proclaiming themselves as protectors of the “traditional” family and the union between a man and a woman. Others display these as part of their electoral programs describing the war they will make against gay marriage or abortion. In the media, along many issues they incite fear and panic by comparing homosexuality to paedophilia, zoophiles and other disorders. Ridiculously and unconvincingly they partake in debates as if they were undisputed professors of sexology, sexuality, sociology, human sciences, theology, the divine, economy, politics, physics etc and in the tenth of a second have the ability to convince you that they have a high authority in everything they talk about.