The LGBT+ situation in Armenia is bad, but not this bad.
Even from the safety of the diaspora, it has been painful to watch the backsliding of LGBT+ rights in the region.
Armenia is decades behind the West in this regard, but compared to its neighbors? Somehow, better.
Posted by ShantJ
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This is so fucked
Basically nazi law, especially the prohibition of HRT, which will drive mass exodus and sui*ides
Bruh wtf
What even is this?
Let’s be fr here lgbt stuff is such a non issue in our area that such a Bill doesn’t need to exist no TV Show there was going to feature an lgbt couple anyway, no lgbt stuff is taught in school anyway, no one is “lgbt agenda” pushing there anyway no one was going to push for same sex marriage there anyway
They could just leave it and nothing would happen.
All this is just to hinder eu membership for them and I can guess why and who is pushing for them to not enter the eu
Now’s the best time for us to do the right thing and look good doing it.
I mean if this is what the majority of Georgian people want who are we to get butthurt over it?
Why is this here? Nothing to do with Armenia.
It’s funny how Georgia and Armenia swapped over their russia/West stance since 2022
These people will seriously sell the country to the Russians and then blame the LGBTQ+ community for all of their problems. Embarrassing.
Georgia – you’re clearly caught in a historical “off-side” and it looks like the closest you will come to European acceptance is at Euro 2024. Good luck.
For Armenia, off the top of my head there might be a few positive options to pursue other than an affirmative and explicit legislation affirming lgbtq+ rights (not realistically on the horizon yet):
1. General nondiscrimination legislation – general and vague but might do the trick
2. Targeted nondiscrimination legislation – less general and maybe carving out tangential rights that may de facto lead to legal protection at least in some civic sectors (marriage, taxation, etc). I am sure other countries’ examples of this gradual and sectoral model can be helpful to emulate here
3. Don’t address this subject legislatively at all and actively resist variants of the Georgia law from being introduced/passed
Probably other ways but so far thought of these three.
They wanna beat Russia at being the worst (european) country for lgbt people i guess.
In all honesty though, it is such a shame that Georgia is regressing this bad when they were able to progress and made changes for years to get closer to Europe. Now one by one, those progress is being unmade by the current admin. They are basically losing any development they managed to come up with in a couple of years. We should learn from this though and recognize how such miscalculations and mistakes can be made to better ourselves.
Trying really hard to lose their EU candidacy