Valentine's deal 'left out gay people'

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Associated Press in Bucharest
Tuesday March 1, 2005
The Guardian

A gay rights group has filed discrimination charges against Romania's TAROM airline after the company allegedly excluded gays from a Valentine's day discount offer for lovers.

The state-owned firm offered travel discounts during February to couples travelling together, but the offer excluded gays, said Florin Buhuceanu, from Accept, Romania's main gay rights group. Mr Buhuceanu said he tried to purchase tickets for himself and his partner for a two-for-one offer, but was told that people of the same sex did not qualify.

He said his organisation filed charges against TAROM with Romania's anti-discrimination board which would discuss the case today.

Homosexuality was a crime in Romania until 2001 when the government removed the offence from the penal code to comply with demands from the EU which Romania hopes to join in 2007.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/gayrights/story/0,12592,1427606,00.html