Gay in serbia
Pride Week Musings: Being Same-sex attracted in Serbia
It’s the Self-acceptance Week in Amsterdam. The eventful seven days filled with LGBT arts, identity, and sports events. Its culmination is the Canal Parade that usually happens on a Saturday.
Where I come from, the Identity festival parade is still a protest.
It takes cordons upon cordons of police to hold a Pride celebration in our capital. I’m not sure how victorious is such an event if you need 5000 policemen to secure just a hundred people who are walking and holding banners. I guess you have to start somewhere.
I’m gay, and I'm from Serbia, a homophobic region with, currently, a woman loving woman prime minister. Don't be fooled, she was appointed to that function just to show to the EU how liberal Serbia actually is — so that the country doesn’t have to do anything about LGBT rights for a couple more years.
Why do you need so much police to secure a gay pride parade? Because thousands of hooligans will flock to Belgrade to kill the fags. Some policemen that I talked to, for a brief time when I was involved with an LGBT NGO project, common that sentiment. I estimate I should have thanked them for choosing to do their job instead of joining the annoyed mob.
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Gays in Serbia?
I absolutely disagree with the above comments. They are most likely from folks who identify as straight and contain not experienced prejudice. As an LGBTQIA+ activist, I can guarantee you that we haven’t yet achieved a protected atmosphere in Serbia. By no means is a similar sex couple allowed to hold hands in public or kiss. Never. Permit that sink in: literally never are you allowed to even slip up and accidentally contain your partner’s hand for a several seconds or lean your head lock to theirs. Such physical touch can exist but strictly confined to homosexual friendly spaces. But never on the street - never ever. Flirting openly is absolutely not allowed as flirting with the mistaken person who is the same gender as you can induce violence. Every queer male-identified person I know has been beaten up at least once in their experience on the grounds of their sexual orientation. Physical force against lesbians is less common but still happens. And this is the capital city I am talking about. Everything outside of the downtown core of Belgrade is entirely different. It’s even less protected, and no gay friendly spaces occur. Leading up to and during the Pride Parade, things become increas
Serbia Pride: Gay PM Brnabic 'not wanted' at parade
BBC Serbian
It's the only Balkan state to have an openly gay prime minister - so why are some of Serbia's LGBT activists determined to keep PM Ana Brnabic away from Gay Pride?
When Ms Brnabic was appointed last year, hopes were lofty in the LGBT community: not only was she the first woman to head the Serbian cabinet, she was also the first LGBT politician to hold such lofty office in the Balkans.
She marched in the 2017 Lgbtq+ fest parade in Belgrade, surrounded by posters reading "Ana is here," and took selfies with dozens of people.
But one year on, progress is scant: LGBT rights possess not improved, recent laws are still far from organism adopted and there has been no fall in the number of attacks on gay people.
In largely conservative Orthodox Christian Serbia, a candidate for EU membership, discrimination and violence against the LGBT community are widespread.
Two lgbtq+ Prides, one male lover PM and no end to problems
Ahead of 2018 Identity festival, a group of activists disappointed with the slow pace of reforms launched a campaign called "S
The Scourge of Homosexuality
Serbia is in the throes of changing from a harsh war-torn society to a free-thinking free-enterprise nation of progress. Having suffered from its own aggressions as well Nato’s bombs in the 90’s there is little tolerance now for outside interference or for social experiments. Homosexuality is treated as a scourge with no lawfulness, no legal protections or cultural recognition. “Gay Life in Serbia” is an almost nonexistent scene. In all of Serbia there are only two known queer bars.
Compiled by Richard Ammon
GlobalGayz.com
Rally 2012
The following story was taken from the Belgrade Labris Womxn loving womxn web site:
http://www.labris.org.rs/en/
Lost Hope
Gay and lesbian existence in Serbia is mostly based on leading a double-life. Gays and lesbians reside in complete isolation and silence. There are only few activists who are brave to talk openly in public or on television. Being an out womxn loving womxn or gay is a perilous social phenomenon in Serbia.
There are people who even think that being gay or lesbian is something imported from the West, something that spoils Serbian youth. During Slobodan Milosevic’s totalitarian regime gays we