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Contents:

• THOANDS MARCH BELGRA AGAST PLANNED GAY PRI PARA
• SERBIA GAY PRI MARCH RETURNS AFTER FOUR YEARS
• BEHD WALL OF POLICE, SERBIA HOSTS FIRST GAY PRI SCE 2010
• SERBIA GAY PRI MARCH TAK PLACE UNDISTURBED
• POWERFUL PHOTOS SHOW THE FIRST GAY PRI MARCH IN SERBIA IN FOUR YEARS
• SERBIA BANS GAY PRI MARCH AGA; EU CRICIZ CISN
• GAY ACTIVISTS MARCH THROUGH SERB PAL BEHD POLICE L

THOANDS MARCH BELGRA AGAST PLANNED GAY PRI PARA

Gay man pri flag Serbia. REUTERS/Zorana JevticBELGRADE, Sept 11 (Rters) - Thoands of relig and right-wg activists marched through Serbia's pal on Sunday llg for thori to ban a Gay Pri march planned for next weekend.The protters - who rried a massive Serbian flag - clud groups who also shouted slogans backg Serbia's long-term ally Rsia, as well as natnalistic and far-right .A lumn of bikers who support the polici of Rsian Print Vladimir Put and Rsia's vasn of Ukrae, revved their eng support of the crowds who marched to Belgra’s St Sava thedral for prayers.In a sermon, the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Porfirije, said the EuroPri event threatened tradnal fay valu."They want to secrate the sancty of marriage and the fay and impose an unnatural unn as a substute for marriage," he told the crowd.Serbia's print, Aleksandar Vucic, said on Saturday there had been threats agast the march, and was up to the police whether should be stopped.LGBT and rights groups have repeatedly said they will march next Saturday even if thori ll off.Gay sex is legal Serbia, but same-sex marriag are not allowed and activists say LGBT people face hostily and discrimatn.Serbian ernments have banned Pri paras the past, and some events the early 2000s were marred by vlence.Many Sunday's crowd waved Rsian flags, a show of support for Mosw a untry where the ernment is tryg to balance s ambn to jo the European Unn wh s longstandg ti wh Rsia and Cha.Bssels has said Serbia needs to make a strg of reforms to bee as EU member cludg improvg the le of law and s human and mory rights rerd.Reportg by Fedja Glovic; Wrg by Aleksandar Vasovic; Edg by Andrew HeavensOur Standards: The Thomson Rters Tst Prcipl. BELGRADE (Rters) - Thoands of relig and right-wg activists marched through Serbia's pal on Sunday llg for thori to ban a Gay Pri march planned for next protters - who rried a massive Serbian flag - clud groups who also shouted slogans backg Serbia's long-term ally Rsia, as well as natnalistic and far-right .

Image source, RtersImage ptn, Serbia is keen to show the European Unn is beg a more tolerant societySerbia's first Gay Pri march for four years has been held the pal Belgra, amid huge secury, cludg special forc and armoured rabow flags, hundreds took the short march through empty streets.

Authori had ncelled the event every year sce marchers were attacked 2010 - ne years after Gay Pri was first held is keen to show creasg tolerance as seeks to jo the EU, the BBC's Guy De Lney says.

SERBIA GAY PRI MARCH RETURNS AFTER FOUR YEARS

Keepg Bssels happy is undoubtedly the motivatn for allowg the Gay Pri march to go ahead, our rrponnt Belgra Mister Aleksandar Vucic had announced he would not attend the event due to prr engagements - but also ma clear he would not have gone even if he had been ee.

Image source, AFPImage ptn, The atmosphere was ftive wh many human rights activists among the marchersImage source, RtersImage ptn, But anti-gay protters turned out and there were some arrtsImage source, RtersImage ptn, Hundreds of heavily-armed police and special forc were on handImage source, AFPImage ptn, Even armoured rs were ployed - after all prev stanc of vlence had forced thori to ncel Gay Pri march for yearsOur rrponnt says that reflects wispread feelgs patriarch of the fluential Orthodox Church has nmned the event. Two-thirds of rponnts to a survey four years ago said they viewed homosexualy as a Sunday's march took place whout cint, wh marchers blowg whistl as a police helipter flew over them. Our efforts of the past three years have borne u, " aniser Boban Stojanovic told Rters news Saturday eveng, anti-gay rights mpaigners monstrated the pal anticipatn of the Gay Pri march on the fluence of the far right has cled recent years, our rrponnt says, and several ernment misters have spoken favour of the march.

Earlier September a German LGBT ( lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr) rights speaker was treated hospal after beg beaten rponse to the attack, Interr Mister Nebojsa Stefanovic said: "We will not allow this kd of thg to rema unpunished.

BEHD WALL OF POLICE, SERBIA HOSTS FIRST GAY PRI SCE 2010

"The march 2010 was the only gay pri para to go ahead the Serbian pal sce on this story. BELGRADE, Serbia — Wavg rabow-lored flags, several hundred gay activists proceed undisturbed through downtown Belgra on Sunday thanks to the protectn of thoands of rt police.

Still, was important symbolilly as a rare public event staged by gays this highly nservative Balkan untry. Authori banned gay rights march planned for the followg three years, cg secury reasons.

SERBIA GAY PRI MARCH TAK PLACE UNDISTURBED

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BELGRADE (Rters) - Gay rights activists Serbia held their first Pri march four years on Sunday, walkg through Belgra streets emptied of traffic and pestrians by a massive secury operatn. ”Homophobia is wispread Serbia and other nservative societi the Balkans; the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church last week pared homosexualy to paedophilia and Mister Aleksandar Vucic, a former ultranatnalist who has rebrand himself as a pro-Wtern reformer, said on Thursday he had “no tentn” of jog the march, but several of his misters and the mayor of Belgra turned out. Belgra, Serbia (AP) — Wavg rabow-lored flags, several hundred gay activists proceed undisturbed through downtown Belgra on Sunday thanks to the protectn of thoands of rt police.

Still, was important symbolilly as a rare public event staged by gays  this highly nservative Balkan untry.

POWERFUL PHOTOS SHOW THE FIRST GAY PRI MARCH IN SERBIA IN FOUR YEARS

Authori banned gay rights march planned for the followg three years, cg secury reasons.

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SERBIA BANS GAY PRI MARCH AGA; EU CRICIZ CISN

Over 1, 000 gay rights activists Serbia held their first pri march four years on Sunday, walkg through Belgra streets emptied of traffic and pestrians by a massive secury operatn.

An attack on a gay German activist Belgra earlier this month prompted new qutns about whether police were up to the task of protectg LGBT people. On Saturday, several hundred people gathered Belgra to prott the Belgra Gay Pri Para.

GAY ACTIVISTS MARCH THROUGH SERB PAL BEHD POLICE L

The anti-gay rally also drew a heavy police prence. In the days leadg up to the Pri march, anti-gay graffi appeared around the cy.

In spe of the show of anti-gay sentiment, Saturday's pri march took place whout any large sle-vlence, though there were multiple arrts. Wavg hundreds of rabow-lored flags, several hundred gay activists marched om the ernment headquarters through the empty Belgra streets where shops were closed and public transport was stopped.

Police fire tto the air to disperse several hundred natnalist thugs who threw ston at and beat gay activists takg part the first Gay Para Belgra, June 2001. A poll om Vranje, southern Serbia, showed that out of 87 teachers om three primary and three high schools, 64 per cent nsired homosexualy a “disorr“.

Male homosexual sexual terurse was only crimalised Serbia as recently as 1994 (Vojvoda experienced a brief perd of legaly the ‘70s), but this has barely improved the state of play. Gays and lbians still experience equent harassment the untry, although the attu Belgra is far more relaxed than the rt of the state. Many villag and towns (pecially the centre and south) reta a particularly nservative mentaly, to the pot where textbooks classifyg homosexualy as ‘viance’ are still e here and there.

The Church is unsurprisgly not favour of homosexualy, referrg to as a vlatg of God’s ordance and an ‘sult to God’. Regrettably, the same poll found that 21% of Serbians felt that homosexuals should be charged as crimals.