{"id":182856,"date":"2014-11-07T08:35:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T08:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/11\/07\/being-gay-has-been-legal-in-albania-since-1995\/"},"modified":"2014-11-07T08:35:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T08:35:45","slug":"being-gay-has-been-legal-in-albania-since-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/11\/07\/being-gay-has-been-legal-in-albania-since-1995\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Being gay has been legal in Albania since 1995. This pre-dominantly Muslim nation has been in the forefront of gay rights in the Balkans. In 2013, ILGA Europe said that the country was the friendliest nation to the gays in the area, as it has a welcoming government and an anti-discrimination law. Kristi Pinderi, who is with the LGBT organization Pink Embassy, says that the anti-discrimination law is \u201cimportant because in theory a teacher, for example, who is transgender, and decides to go and teach wearing a dress, I can\u2019t imagine what the reaction would be, but the law protects that need, if there is a need like that,\u201d talking to the organization International Day Against Homophobia. Other countries with a large Muslim population and where homosexuality is legal include Abkhazia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Guinea-Bissau, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Niger, Northern Cyprus, Palestine, and Tajikistan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/islamandhomosexuality.com\/5-muslim-nations-gay-legal\/\" target=\"_blank\">5 Muslim Nations Where Gay is Legal &#8211; LGBT Muslims<\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/aboriginalnewswire.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">aboriginalnewswire<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;These are five Muslim countries where being gay is not a crime. What do they have in common? None of them were colonized by the British Empire.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/kyriarchy.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">kyriarchy<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>WHAT A COINKIDINK<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/queenconsuelabananahammock.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">queenconsuelabananahammock<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being gay has been legal in Albania since 1995. This pre-dominantly Muslim nation has been in the forefront of gay rights in the Balkans. In 2013, ILGA Europe said that the country was the friendliest nation to the gays in the area, as it has a welcoming government and an anti-discrimination law. Kristi Pinderi, who &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/11\/07\/being-gay-has-been-legal-in-albania-since-1995\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[831,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}