Serbia: For gays, a ghetto morn Europe | The World om PRX

Contents:

• THOANDS MARCH BELGRA AGAST PLANNED GAY PRI PARA
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• SERBIA: FOR GAYS, A GHETTO MORN EUROPE
• BELGRA GAY GUI
• GAY BELGRA

THOANDS MARCH BELGRA AGAST PLANNED GAY PRI PARA

Gay Marriage⚭✖ UnregnizedCensorship✔ No censorshipChangg Genr✔ Legal, surgery not requiredNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedEmployment Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyHog Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyMilary✖ Lbians, gays, bisexuals permted, transgenr people bannedDonatg Blood✖ Banned (6-month ferral)Conversn Therapy✖ Not banned. By The Numbers82% of Orthodox Christians support the Church's posn on refg to perform same-sex marriagHistoryHomosexual activy Serbia?

Lbians, gays, bisexuals permted, transgenr people banned only 26 untri allow transgenr Millary service, Serbia is unfortunately not of themBlood donatns by MSMs 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 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 . Gara, who was there, rells that Belgra “looked like a war zone” 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 2017, Vučić even appoted the gay polician Ana Brnabić as his prime misterial replacement when he beme print.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

“Over 85% of Serbian cizens are agast the promotn of homosexualism and Pri, that’s the issue here, ” said Andrej Mic, Dveri’s d-mannered ternatnal secretary. ”Mic said that Dveri members were not agast human rights or anti-discrimatn laws protectg LGBTQ+ dividuals the workplace, for example, but that they opposed “the promotn of iologil homosexualism” that Pri reprented. Latvia swore the first openly gay print of a Baltic natn Rkēvičs, who sce 2011 was the untry’s foreign mister, was elected by Parliament May after Print Egils Levs did not seek re-electn.

”Rkēvičs “proudly” announced he is gay on Twter November 2014, though the untry, a former Soviet republic, is not pecially LGBTQ-clive. ” He said he knew there would be “mega hysteria, ” but he end wh the hashtag “#Proudtobegay. She is thought to be the first openly gay prime mister the was an active unnist her nearly 10 years workg as a flight attendant, acrdg to the Council of Women World Lears, a work of female heads of state.

SERBIA: FOR GAYS, A GHETTO MORN EUROPE

After the accatn, he said, he was chased down the street by reporters, one of whom yelled, “Yet they say you’re a homosexual! ”Xavier Bettel Prime Mister of Luxembourg (2013-prent)Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel at a news nference Belgra, Serbia, on July Vojovic / APBettel was first elected prime mister of Luxembourg 2013, and 2018 he beme the first openly gay prime mister the world to be re-elected for a send marriage beme legal Luxembourg 2015, and the same year Bettel beme the first servg European Unn lear to marry a same-sex partner, the BBC recently cricized a Hungarian law that bans school tnal materials and TV shows for people unr 18 that are emed to promote LGBTQ ntent, Rters reported. “To be natnally blamed, to be nsired as not normal, to be nsired as a danger for young people — ’s not realizg that beg gay is not a choice, ” Bettel said, acrdg to Rters.

“Hopefully this will blow over three or four days, and then I won’t be known as the gay mister, ” she told The Associated Prs at the Varadkar Prime Mister of Ireland (2017-20, 2022-prent)Irish Prime Mister Leo Varadkar Bssels on June 30. Ludovic Mar / AFP - Getty Imag fileVaradkar beme Ireland’s first openly gay Taoiseach, or prime mister, 2017 and served until 2020. Napredak koji je Srbija ostvarila proteklih goda suočava se sa preprekom homo-transfobije koju šire oportunistički akteri negativno nastrojeni protiv ljudskih prava, kako na teru, tako i van njega, izjav je danas šef Kancelarije...

Across the Wtern Balkans, Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual and Intersex (LGBTI) people are fightg for their rights to lead a normal life. On Augt 27, Print Aleksandar Vucic announced that the ernment is ncellg EuroPri, a regnal event promotg equaly for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people that Serbia was poised to host om September 12 to 18, wh a march on September 17.

BELGRA GAY GUI

In rejectg the Rsian ernment's argument, the urt reerated that there is “no ambiguy” about “the right of dividuals to openly intify themselv as gay, lbian or any other sexual mory, and to promote their rights and eedoms, particular by exercisg their eedom of peaceful assembly.

But the uple is now planng their weddg at home their Balkan untry, wh the promise of a new law that will regnise same-sex partnerships markg an important victory for the LGBT muny that fac wispread homophobia. Dpe beg one of few natns to have an openly gay prime mister, Serbia's machismo-heavy culture leav many LGBT people livg fear. Yet even among the new generatn of high schoolers, only 24 percent of those surveyed exprsed support for LGBT rights such as adoptn, acrdg to a study by the Helski, a 17-year-old high school stunt who cled to give her surname, told AFP that she don't know anyone her age who is openly gay, while those who show support for LGBT rights get "ridiculed or attacked".

GAY BELGRA

"I n unrstand people wh that kd of sexual orientatn, their untls admistrative problems, challeng and prsur, and their need to regulate their stat", Porfirije recently told public broadster an openly gay Prime Mister for the past four years may have also ma an impact, although Ana Brnabic has been cricised for failg to be a more vol advote of expandg LGBT rights. Brnabic has prevly unrled that her missn is not to be a "gay prime mister", but a lear of a some acce the 45-year-old of failg to e her posn of power to help the rt of the the prime mister's female partner gave birth to a baby boy 2019, months later artificial sematn was banned Serbia for upl who have "recent history of homosexual relatns".

- Pkwashg -Some gay activists also see the new law as the ernment's latt form of "pkwashg" -- the practice of promotg some progrsive ias orr to overshadow other illiberal on. Dpe the existg legislative and strategic amework, the aquate reactns of legal stutns regardg hate crim motivated by homophobia and transphobia are often missg. In addn to the adopted legislative and strategic amework, their implementatn is ficient, while aquate reactns of the petent stutns to attacks motivated by homophobia and transphobia are often lackg.

All relevant rearch for Serbia dit a general tenncy not to report crimal acts arisg om homophobia and transphobia, while the system of rerdg such acts is only sporadic and non-transparent. We achieve this by monorg illegal actns motivated by homophobia and transphobia, advotg for stutns, rpondg to muny needs by providg ee legal and psychologil support and pacy buildg through tn programs, both ourselv and other civil society anizatns, cisn makers, muny queens and beyond.