Is that possible in Albania?
Posted On 12/10/2012
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Kristi Pinderi
During the last month Pro LGBT in collaboration with The Alliance against Discrimination has started a challenging voluntarily deep survey at the State Archives after we had a very collaborative discussion with the general director of the Archives, Dr. Nevila Nika.
I should admit: This effort to understand more about the past of LGBT community is becoming very hard to manage: we spend several hours every day at the Archives, most often trying to manage the emotions while reading extremely horrible facts and at the same time we try to understand more, pages after pages and files after files, although in our group only me has a academic background in History.
We were shocked to discover how the Penal Code of the Republic was amended on 1925 in order to include at the article that condemned pedophilia also the homosexuality. From that moment and on, you could see and read all possible witch hunt cases against male homosexuals and especially state officials or teachers or other lower semi-officials working for the state.
While everything looks pretty easy to discover among the files belonging to the period from 1912-1944, it is much more difficult to research everything in the archives belonging to the communism period. This period looks like a more complicated labyrinth and in order to discover it we need more time to spend.
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