The Prime Minister of Albania, one of the last bastions of conservatism following the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, has announced that his party will introduce a Bill legalising same sex marriage. Acknowleding the Bill will be controversial, Sali Berisha says discrimination must become a thing of the past in modern Albania.
Albania is a predominantly Muslim country with no openly gay community to speak of. The Bill was drawn up by a group of non-governmental organisations and is likely to have a rough passage in the face of religious communities which have grown in strength since the overthrow of communism almost twenty years ago.
