Atitudini publice și aspecte legislative cu privire la drepturile persoanelor LGBT: o perspectivă interculturală

Abstract

LGBT people experience specific types of prejudice often related to breaking gender role norms. The exclusion experienced by LGBT individuals results mostly from the discrimination they face in all aspects of their life, a discrimination which interfere with their ability to have and access equal rights. This lack of recognition impacts the deepest aspects of life – who to live with, raising children, how to relate as a gendered being, etc., but it also affects the various facets of their social and/or professional life. There is a great knowledge gap concerning these interpersonal processes in contemporary Romania, including the psychological consequences of stigmatization and prejudice for LGBT people. We aim to mention Romanian public attitudes, and secondly, to analyse the discrepancy of evolution between Norway and Romania of public attitudes toward LGBT people impacts the social inclusion of LGBT and their mental health status. The two countries are similar in terms of not incriminating homosexuality, but there is a profound discrepancy regarding the evolution of the social inclusion of LGBT persons.

Keywords

• lgbt individuals
• lgbt-issues
• psychological consequences
• legal issues
• prejudice
• discrimination
• psychosocial processes
• public attitudes
• social inclusion