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You are viewing the most recent 9 entries May 10th, 2009November 22nd, 2007: Boy's Next Door by Kaori Yuki The tragic love story between a serial killer and a young male prostitute... ![]() This will make you cry. Never had a thing for manga until I stumbled over this little masterpiece. April 7th, 2005April 4th, 2005: Dan talking about his childhood Dan talking about his childhood "I have a scar on my right cheek from a fight on the streets of Chisinau, between me and some boys from a band who wanted to take my money. I was in the 9th grade then. Anyhow I beat up some of them then!" "When I was 10 I planted my first tree. It's a cherry tree that is now in my grandfather’s yard. I am very proud of it, because it is very big now, and it makes a lot of cherries every year. I have eaten cherries made by it. It's good for you to plant at least one tree." "When the police weren't around, but my dad also, I used to take the car out for a drive even if I didn't have a license. I know that it was a stupid thing to do - never do this, ok? Now I have a license and it's ok, but it's better to wait a few years than to ruin the car." "When I used to go to a camp I used to wake up my friends really early so we could have practice - I taught them how to fight and how to defend themselves - I did some martial arts and then I was showing off. It was very amusing for me, but not for them because they had to respect my program." "In high school from 15 to 18 years I had a band. I was a big rocker who listened and made gothic rock. I don't know if this kind of rock sounds familiar to you, but I can tell you that it was really good music. The band had a total of eight members and I still remember our concerts. After that I've moved on from underground to commercial." "A very big part of my teens I spent in Israel, because my dad is the ambassador of the Moldova Republic there. There all is different - so my teens was sort of different. I had to come back to Moldavia because of the studies. I couldn't have finished them there. I learned in a multinational school, but the University had to teach me in their language which I don't know at all." "When I left Israel I had a big party. In the morning when I was going to leave, a friend of mine from Thailand came to me and gave me a ring with a semicircle on it. He had one just like that, and if you would have put them together they formed a circle. I thought that it was the tradition there. After two years I found out that that guy was gay. The next second I didn't want to see the ring again." "My parents have been very understanding with me all my life. The truth is that I was alone most of the time and I could have done all that I wanted. For example my room was full of posters with my favourite artists. My parents never told me to take them down - even if they did I wouldn't have taken them down!" "I had my first kiss when I was 11 years old. I remember it even now. It happened in a camp, and she was very beautiful. I remember that I also had a rival that wanted her kiss, but he acted badly: he used to throw green apples into us when we were dancing." Current Mood: Current Music: Timpul trece fara noi / Dan Balan Project O-Zone April 3rd, 2005: Together, but not like that... A few hours ago Dan, Arsenium and Radu reunited, maybe for the last time, on a stage in Berlin/Germany. They were presented with the Echo. Some German music award. I got that all live on the phone from a friend (Alex, I love you!) in Germany. He said, they were sitting together, Dan next to Arsenie. Hey, they talking again to each other. They made up, it seems. When they walked on stage, Arsenie said in German :"’alo, I’m your Haiduc". And Dan thanked everybody ( in English) for the award. Radu wanted to thank his family but was cut off. Anyway, they seemed alright. Dan wore a red top, hair a bit ruffled up. Arsenium wore a beige or brown jacket. This is all random information I got during this rather breathless phonecall. But hey, they are not mad at each other anymore. And it was almost as if they had never split up! Sigh! If only they hadn’t... Current Mood: Current Music: "Love me, love me" Arsenium April 2nd, 2005: Homosexuality in Moldova Homosexuality is not on the official disease list in Moldova «Homosexuality is not officially considered a disease», says the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Moldova in its official letter to GenderDoc–M. «Till today we have not registered any cases of forced treatment of homosexuality in mental hospitals. No medical workers have been fired on the grounds of their homosexual orientation. Gays and lesbians have equal access to treatment in Moldovan medical institutions». The letter was sent at the end of October as a reply to the request of GenderDoc–M. It also mentioned the fact that in Moldova three transsexuals have been approved by the medical committee to undergo gender reassignment. However, the letter stated that homosexuality is taught in medical universities as a perversion. Center GenderDoc–M has also found out recently that homosexual orientation is an impediment for blood donation. The Center will further work on the abolishment of these discriminatory provisions. The next request for information on LGBT rights will be sent to the Ministry of Education. Discrimination as life style Members of Moldovan lesbian and gay community face discrimination and violence on permanent basis. We propose you some of the stories of those, for whom discrimination has already become a lifestyle. Although the word “tolerance” is in our current dictionaries, its meaning is not clear for a lot of people. And the number of those who guide their actions according to the principle of tolerance is insignificant. What is the explanation of this? Even though in recent years in the Republic of Moldova some democratic changes have occurred concerning the rights of sexual minorities, the reality proves that the behavior of the state and society does not conform to international standards. The problem is not the national legal framework or the international conventions of human rights which Moldova ratified, but the stereotypes and prejudices of our society. The discrimination of sexual minorities is a part of the mentality of homo sovieticus - “who is not with us is against us”. The Heroes of these stories could be met anywhere, they could be your colleagues, your relatives or even your friends, but being afraid of general homophobia they will not expose their sexual identity. Indifference Victor , 20 years old: “The school years have been a nightmare. At the age of 14, I was walking downtown with schoolmates when suddenly one of them asked me to have sex with him. I looked at him bewildered and tried to laugh at this joke, but he informed the whole school that I am a gay. Although I was aware that I have a sexual orientation different from that of my colleagues, I did not confess to anybody and I had no intention to confess. Nevertheless, in the next years I was the target of jokes and insults and I had to hear humiliating words. Every attempt to defend myself was in vain. The situation did not change when I continued to study at a polyvalent school, because here I had the “good luck” to study with a former schoolmate. After a week everybody started to ask if it is true that I am a gay. Nobody was saying “hello” to me. The teacher looked the other way when colleagues confronted me with insulting language. Often I went home spit upon and beaten. I could not defend myself from the insults and kicks of 30 embittered adolescents, especially when the teachers were indifferent to all this. I had a nervous breakdown and for five weeks I was not able to attend school. Most humiliating were the taunts of my colleagues, made publicly, to have sex with them. Asking them why they behave in this manner, I heard only words which I was ashamed to hear. Even now, when we meet on the streets they look at me with repugnance and call me “ queer”” Often the school, where one goes to create his personality and to build his own way in life, becomes a jungle in which the most powerful survives because of the passivity of those whose mission it is supposed to be to make children and adolescents understand and accept the diversity of life. Who is guilty: the adolescent or the parents and teachers who do not have enough time to or are ashamed to defend the young gay, who has the right - given by God at the moment of his birth - to be respected and to live his life with dignity? Cruelty Elena, 27 years old: “I felt lonely and I decided to give birth to a child. I do not want to remember how it happened, because I am a lesbian. My decision to have a child was good news for my parents. They were waiting for the child, as I was, ready to love him unconditionally. However, a sudden meeting with homophobes changed all that, as I shall tell. One day I met a homosexual friend and we went for a drink. Finding that his cigarettes were finished he went out to buy some. The time was passing and he did not return; I went to see what happened. On the corner I saw five men beating my friend. I started to defend him and to cry. “Is she your friend, a lesbian?”, they shouted, and they then started to kick me. My friend tried to explain to them that I am pregnant, but their answers were: “Why give birth to such a degenerate?” and they continued to kick my stomach. I do not know why they did not kill us, probably they were tired. I had the strength to help my friend get home, and then I went to the hospital. I lost the child, and my experience resulted in a strong hatred against men, and especially against policemen, because as I found out later those who ill-treated us were policemen. If the representatives of the state behave in this way, where can I find protection?” The abuses of policemen against persons belonging to gay and lesbian communities are a permanent discussion among them. Veseaslav will talk about one of the abuses. Another aspect is alarming: people are afraid to go to the police and ask for protection.“You will not get protection, and tomorrow the whole city will know that you are homosexual, including friends and neighbors”, say most of those who have suffered because of this. And this is the truth. In the state where reigns not law but prejudice, where the police use force and blackmail, there is no hope that justice will prevail. Blackmail Veceaslav, 21 years old: “On December 18, 2003 I was walking in the park Vealea Morilor. Around 15,40 pm a man approached me asking for matches. I answered that I do no smoke. Another man came out from the WC of the park and they exchanged several words. The second man approached me and asked the same thing. I answered that I do not smoke and I do not have matches. After some moments of silence, he said “sorry that I insist, but if you want you can enter after me” and he went to the WC. I did not follow him. After a while I went to the WC because of the physiological need. The second man was there and started to ask who I am and which my sex-preferences are. I said that these are my private affairs. Then he proposed to have sex; I refused. After that he showed me his policeman’s identity card and said that our discussion is recorded. I went out where his colleague was waiting for us. They started to examine me and I admitted that I am a homosexual. They answered that in the Republic of Moldova homosexuality is punished according to the Penal Code art, 106. They insisted to go to the police sector, but I refused because I knew what that means: physical and psychological ill-treatment. They took the mobile phone and 35 lei which I had. Because they “lost their time with me” they asked for 500 lei. I did not have this amount of money and they proposed to pawn the mobile phone for 200 lei. On the next day I had to bring the other money…” We interrupt here the story of Veaceslav because it is not ended yet. Thanks to the representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs the swindlers have been caught. We hope the lawsuit will result in an adequate decision. But there is a curious aspect of the lawsuit: when we addressed one institution from the Moldovan legal system, we heard that they do not have enough time to prepare for the meeting of the victim with his aggressors. The answer is representative, isn’t it? Embitterment Natalia, 25 years old: “when I was 17 years old I fell in love with a woman. The reactions which followed were: hysterics and insults from my mother, the silence of my father, my sister’s ironies… It was impossible to stay with my parents. My partner got divorced from her husband with whom she had stayed four years, and we started to live together. Nevertheless, the relations with my parents were filled with tension and friends rejected us. I was employed as a teacher at a secondary school, but the appeasement did not last. The gossip in the small provincial town ran rapidly. One day at the Pedagogical Council they discussed my sexual orientation. They did not allow me to defend myself. Finally they proposed that I leave. I went to another town, thinking that I will start a new life, but this was just an illusion. At the new work place the attitudes were the same. ” These are only a few cases from hundreds or maybe even thousands of cases of discrimination in schools, institutions, and even during the free time of persons belonging to sexual minorities, and these cases happen every day in our country. Loneliness is the destiny of those who understand that they are different. How can we eliminate this awful situation of unequal rights of citizens of this state? Who will help to overturn the barriers of misunderstanding and to reconcile the majority with the minority? And when will we all be aware and conduct our daily life according to the noble meanings of the word “tolerance”, because we are the children of the same God who asks us to love others as ourselves - without prejudices and with no accent on sexual orientation. Prepared by GenderDoc-M www.gay.md genderdoc_m@mdl.net Post: C.P. 422, MD 2004, Chisinau, Moldova Phone: /37322/ 544420, 544054, 276094 Current Mood: Current Music: "Nopti fara de som" from Number 1(O-Zone) March 31st, 2005: ...and that ![]() You are 100% O-Zone. Perhaps you are even more.... What Percent O-Zone Are You? brought to you by Quizilla Current Mood: Current Music: still Fanfare Ciocarlia March 27th, 2005: Well, I say... ![]() You are definitely meant for Dan Balan, the leader, the black haired cool guy, who is the cool one with the sunglasses on the left side! Yum! ~Which guy from o-zone is the one for you (hott pictures)!!~ brought to you by Quizilla |
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