http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20170125-171454 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/same-sex-marriage-before-the-courts-and-before-the-people-the-story-of-a-tumultuous-year-for-lgbt-rights-in-romania/ Same-sex marriage before the courts and before the people: the story of a tumultuous year for LGBT rights in Romania Cojocariu, Constantin eng 2017-01-25 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Discrimination of Sexual Orientation Homo-Ehe Homophobia LGBT Rights Same Sex Marriage Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 This article will briefly recount a particularly agitated year for LGBT rights in Romania, marked by a highly contentious campaign to amend the constitutional definition of marriage through a referendum, as well as the first referral to the Court of Justice of the European Union by the Constitutional Court, in a freedom of movement case involving a married mixed nationality same-sex couple.