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Advocate General Laila Medina's opinion in Case C-449/25 would leave a British woman without residence rights in Romania. It is advisory, not a ruling — and the distinction matters enormously.
A new anti-corruption law requires politicians' 'civil partners' to disclose their assets — despite Romania having no legal definition of a civil partnership. LGBTQ+ groups are using the irony to push Parliament toward a real law this September.
Romanian city officials rejected all 115 proposed routes for Oradea Pride, but organizers marched through the city center regardless, facing fines but no arrests.
Romania and Bulgaria sit dead last on the EU's Rainbow Map, yet roughly 30,000 marched in Bucharest and thousands more in Sofia this weekend — a louder answer than the Orthodox Church and the nationalist counter-marchers expected.
On May 13, ACCEPT and dozens of Romanian same-sex couples married elsewhere in the EU filed a formal administrative request demanding their marriages be recognized in Romanian civil registers. It is the first organized test of the EU's November 2025 Cupriak-Trojan ruling on Romanian soil.
Bucharest Pride runs June 3–13 under the theme 'All of Us,' with the march expected to bring more than 30,000 people down Calea Victoriei. The edition doubles as the 30th anniversary of ACCEPT, the organisation that helped decriminalise homosexuality in Romania.
We've been twice — once in 2015, again as nomads in 2022 — and Bucharest has changed faster than the headlines suggest. Romania's capital is an underrated long stay for queer travelers who want a real city, real food, and breathing room from the usual European circuit.
On May 23, 2023, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Romania had violated the rights of 21 same-sex couples by refusing to give their relationships any legal status. Three years on, Romania still has no civil partnership law — and the Council of Europe is running out of patience.
A Romanian court ruled that the state must issue a new birth certificate to Arian Mirzarafie-Ahi, a trans man who transitioned in the UK — setting a binding precedent for all 27 EU member states.
