If during the epidemic of the new corona virus in Montenegro, an LGBT person was in the hospital, his or her partner would not be able to have information about that person's state of health, and if he or she died as a result of the infection, they would not even be able to attend the funeral, because our law does not recognize them as family members.
This is, among other things, the reason why the LGBT community in Montenegro is asking for the adoption of the Law on Life Partnership of Persons of the Same Sex, Director of the NGO Queer Montenegro Danijel Kalezić told the PR Center.
"By adopting the Law, we in the LGBT community do not get anything special, only what every person in the world should have. We will get a way to achieve a set of rights with the person with whom we have decided to create a common life - health insurance, visits in hospitals, inheriting a pension, inheriting property," explained Kalezić.
He believes that last year's scenario should not be repeated, where certain political groups played political games through the Law on Life Partnership of Same-Sex Persons.
"That was disappointing, especially from political parties and MPs who declaratively cherish civic values in their programs, and civic values imply that there is no compromise with human rights, they imply that human rights cannot be used for any political scoring," he said. is Kalezic.
Despite the disappointment, in the LGBT community they believe that everyone has a chance for reform, and they are convinced that the Law will receive the necessary majority in the new vote in the Montenegrin parliament.
"Everyone should be given a chance to correct something bad they did in the past, so we believe that this time those parties and independent MPs who cherish civic values will show that it is not just declarative, but will support this law," Kalezić explained.
Last year's non-adoption of the Law was also welcomed by the Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral, Amfilohije. Kalezić points out that to a significant extent the views of the church affect the life of LGBT people.
"During the previous 10 years, we received many messages from that address that were not supportive and that in some moments were directly motivating for the bullies," Kalezić said.
Despite many changes for the better when it comes to the environment in which the LGBT community lives, Kalezić pointed out that violence against them is still present to a significant extent.
"Violence, unfortunately, is not less, and unfortunately mostly within families, because families are the ones who continue to resist. But things are changing, more and more people are in emotional relationships that are stable, long-lasting, they live freely and in general the attitudes of society are slowly loosening," Kalezić said.
He said that the society as a whole has to deal with the increasing, as he assessed, fascism present in our country. Kalezić believes that the destruction of the monument to the organizers of the Thirteenth of July Uprising is another proof of fascism that is spreading in our country.
"Unfortunately, Montenegro is at a moment when it has to fight fascism again. The fight against fascism implies a fight against homophobia, transphobia, because it is a fight for freedom. The task of all of us is to fight for freedom," said Kalezić.
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