Thoands of relig and right-wg opponents of a European gay Pri event to be hosted by Belgra protted through the Serbian pal on Sunday, even though the ernment has said would scrap or lay the Pri event.
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PROTTERS MARCH BELGRA AGAST PLANNED GAY PRI EVENT
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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, Aug 28 (Rters) - Thoands of relig and right-wg opponents of a European gay Pri event to be hosted by Belgra protted through the Serbian pal on Sunday, even though the ernment has said would scrap or lay the Pri event.
We wanted to draw attentn to the systematic discrimatn and the lack of polil will to rolve the issu that the muny is facg.”A gay activist Belgra is attacked durg the cy’s first Pri march June 2001.
THOANDS MARCH BELGRA AGAST PLANNED GAY PRI PARA
The annual gay pri event was to take place September Belgra. Print Aleksandar Vucic said the timg was bad, cg “numero problems” currently affectg the untry. * gay pride serbia 2022 *
The rt of Serbia is as homophobic as ever.”Serbia, where same-sex unns are not lawful, reprented a new ontier for the wir LGBTQ+ movement, Gara said. Gara, who was there, rells that Belgra “looked like a war zone”.An anti-gay protter objectg to Belgra Pri 2019.
Vučić, a former far-right radil, beme prime mister that year after moratg his polics and wng the support of EU bigwigs.In 2017, Vučić even appoted the gay polician Ana Brnabić as his prime misterial replacement when he beme print.