His new project 'Naked' is meant to give more visibility to the LGBT community. The Romanian photographer and LGBT activist Tiberiu Capudean believes that hatred and fear are fueled by ignorance. About half of the population of Poland (52 percent), Romania (54 percent), Hungary (44 percent) and more than one-third of Bulgaria (36 percent) would not grant equal rights to LGBT people, according to a 2015 Eurobarometer survey on discrimination in Europe. In some European countries, living openly as a homosexual requires a lot of courage. Holding hands with your partner as gay men in the streets of Warsaw, Budapest or Bucharest is likely to attract at least a few disapproving looks.
