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• WHAT'S IT LIKE TO BE LGBT SERBIA? THE PRI FLAG STANDS ONT OF THE SERBIAN AT OF ARMS | © BOBI10 / SHUTTERSTOCK JOHN WILLIAM BILLS 14 JULY 2023 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT IN A WORD (WELL, TWO), NOT EASY. SERBIA HAS MA TERNATNAL HEADL ON THE SUBJECT OF LGBT RIGHTS FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS OVER THE YEARS, WHETHER THROUGH PRI PARAS ENDG RTS OR QUTNABLE MENTS OM MEMBERS OF ERNMENT. THGS ARE FELY IMPROVG, BUT THEY ARE DOG SO AT THE PACE OF A PARTICULARLY SLOTHFUL SNAIL. DID YOU KNOW – CULTURE TRIP NOW DO BOOKABLE, SMALL-GROUP TRIPS? PICK OM THENTIC, IMMERSIVE EPIC TRIPS, PACT AND ACTN-PACKED MI TRIPS AND SPARKLG, EXPANSIVE SAILG TRIPS. VIEW ALL TRIPS LGBT LEGALY AND NORMALY FIRST, A LTLE B OF HISTORY. 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. MARRIAGE IS STILL LEGALLY FED AS BEG BETWEEN A MALE AND A FEMALE, AND SPE THERE BEG LAWS AGAST SEX AND GENR-BASED DISCRIMATN, LLG THEM ‘POLICED’ WOULD BE A DISSERVICE TO THE TERM. 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 IMPORTANCE OF THE SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH THE DAILY LIFE OF MANY SERBS GO A LONG WAY EXPLAG THIS. THE CHURCH IS UNSURPRISGLY NOT FAVOUR OF HOMOSEXUALY, REFERRG TO AS A VLATG OF GOD’S ORDANCE AND AN ‘SULT TO GOD’. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP JAPAN BALI THAILAND ECUADOR CROATIA INDIA SOUTH AI ICELAND SPA TURKEY MEXI GREECE MOROC EGYPT BELGRA PRI 2017 | © SKJARA/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS LGBT POLICS SUMMER 2017 SAW ANA BRNABIć PROMOTED TO THE POSN OF PRIME MISTER OF SERBIA, BEG ONLY THE SEND LGBT HEAD OF ERNMENT ON THE PLA. SHE ALSO BEME THE FIRST SERBIAN PRIME MISTER TO ATTEND THE ANNUAL PRI PARA, DOG SO SEPTEMBER 2017. MANY CYNIL POCKETS OF SOCIETY HAVE CLAIMED THAT HER PROMOTN IS DOWN TO ALEKSANR VUčIć’S ATTEMPTS TO WOO THE EUROPEAN MUNY, WH THE MOST DISSENTG VOIC G OM WH THE LGBT MUNY SELF. THE TUMULTUO HISTORY OF BELGRA PRI THE BELGRA PRI PARA WAS FIRST HELD 2001, BUT ALMOST A WOULD PASS BEFORE A SEND. THE PARA RETURNED 2010, BUT THE EVENT WAS MET BY THOANDS OF RIGHT-WG PROTTORS WHO VLENTLY LAID WASTE TO THE CENTRE OF THE CY. PRI RETURNED TO THE CY AGA 2014 AND HAS BEEN HELD EVERY YEAR SCE, BUT IS GENERALLY HELD UNR IMMENSE ARY SECURY. EPIC MOROCCO FROM ANCIENT CI TO THE SAHARA, EMBRACE CULTURAL RICH AND ENCHANTG LANDSP NORTH AI. VIEW TRIP NATNALISTS WERE OUT FORCE AT THE 2010 PRI PARA | © HERICH-BöLL-STIFTUNG/FLICKR NOT ALL DOOM AND GLOOM SO ALL ALL, THGS AREN’T GREAT. THERE WAS A SMIDGEN OF OPTIMISM AT THE END OF THAT FIRST PARAGRAPH, HOWEVER, AND ISN’T WHOUT REASON. A POLL 2017 FOUND THAT 59% OF SERBIANS AGREE THAT PEOPLE SHOULD ENJOY THE SAME RIGHTS REGARDLS OF SEXUAL PREFERENCE, WH 65% BELIEVG THE SAME FOR TRANSGENR PEOPLE. REGRETTABLY, THE SAME POLL FOUND THAT 21% OF SERBIANS FELT THAT HOMOSEXUALS SHOULD BE CHARGED AS CRIMALS. BUT THGS ARE IMPROVG. 2011’S PARADASHONE A LIGHT ON THE SUBJECT AND RECEIVED GENERALLY POSIVE REVIEWS THE SERBIAN MEDIA – ALTHOUGH SOME WERE QUICK TO DISMISS AS LTLE MORE THAN A CYNIL MARKETG PLOY. AS MORE AND MORE TERNATNAL MEDIA AND FLUENCE ENTERS BELGRA’S SOCIETY, ATTUS WILL NTUE TO AMELRATE. PRI AT REPUBLIC SQUARE | © BALKANSCAT/SHUTTERSTOCK LGBT-IENDLY SPOTS TTH BE TOLD, THERE AREN’T A HUGE AMOUNT OF BARS AND CLUBS THE CY THAT WOULD QUALIFY AS LGBT-IENDLY. PLEASURE AND MUSK STAND OUT, WHILE KC GRAD AND MOST OF THE BARS AT CETJSKA ONCE AGA SHE AS BEANS OF MORN ATTUS THE SERBIAN PAL. DISCRETN IS STILL ADVISED, HOWEVER, WHICH MORE THAN LIKELY SAYS ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW. ORDARY PEOPLE AREN’T GOG TO GIVE A HOOT WHAT YOU DO WH YOUR GENALS, BUT SERBIA RETAS AN ANGRY GENERATN OF NATNALISTS WHO AREN’T SHY ABOUT MAKG THEIR FEELGS CLEAR. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. KULTURNI CENTAR GRAD | © KULTURNI CENTAR GRAD/FACEBOOK VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?
• BELGRA GAY GUI
• THOANDS MARCH BELGRA AGAST PLANNED GAY PRI PARA
• PROTTERS MARCH BELGRA AGAST PLANNED GAY PRI EVENT
• YOUNG AND GAY BELGRA

WHAT'S IT LIKE TO BE LGBT SERBIA? THE PRI FLAG STANDS ONT OF THE SERBIAN AT OF ARMS | © BOBI10 / SHUTTERSTOCK JOHN WILLIAM BILLS 14 JULY 2023 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT IN A WORD (WELL, TWO), NOT EASY. SERBIA HAS MA TERNATNAL HEADL ON THE SUBJECT OF LGBT RIGHTS FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS OVER THE YEARS, WHETHER THROUGH PRI PARAS ENDG RTS OR QUTNABLE MENTS OM MEMBERS OF ERNMENT. THGS ARE FELY IMPROVG, BUT THEY ARE DOG SO AT THE PACE OF A PARTICULARLY SLOTHFUL SNAIL. DID YOU KNOW – CULTURE TRIP NOW DO BOOKABLE, SMALL-GROUP TRIPS? PICK OM THENTIC, IMMERSIVE EPIC TRIPS, PACT AND ACTN-PACKED MI TRIPS AND SPARKLG, EXPANSIVE SAILG TRIPS. VIEW ALL TRIPS LGBT LEGALY AND NORMALY FIRST, A LTLE B OF HISTORY. 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. MARRIAGE IS STILL LEGALLY FED AS BEG BETWEEN A MALE AND A FEMALE, AND SPE THERE BEG LAWS AGAST SEX AND GENR-BASED DISCRIMATN, LLG THEM ‘POLICED’ WOULD BE A DISSERVICE TO THE TERM. 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 IMPORTANCE OF THE SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH THE DAILY LIFE OF MANY SERBS GO A LONG WAY EXPLAG THIS. THE CHURCH IS UNSURPRISGLY NOT FAVOUR OF HOMOSEXUALY, REFERRG TO AS A VLATG OF GOD’S ORDANCE AND AN ‘SULT TO GOD’. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP JAPAN BALI THAILAND ECUADOR CROATIA INDIA SOUTH AI ICELAND SPA TURKEY MEXI GREECE MOROC EGYPT BELGRA PRI 2017 | © SKJARA/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS LGBT POLICS SUMMER 2017 SAW ANA BRNABIć PROMOTED TO THE POSN OF PRIME MISTER OF SERBIA, BEG ONLY THE SEND LGBT HEAD OF ERNMENT ON THE PLA. SHE ALSO BEME THE FIRST SERBIAN PRIME MISTER TO ATTEND THE ANNUAL PRI PARA, DOG SO SEPTEMBER 2017. MANY CYNIL POCKETS OF SOCIETY HAVE CLAIMED THAT HER PROMOTN IS DOWN TO ALEKSANR VUčIć’S ATTEMPTS TO WOO THE EUROPEAN MUNY, WH THE MOST DISSENTG VOIC G OM WH THE LGBT MUNY SELF. THE TUMULTUO HISTORY OF BELGRA PRI THE BELGRA PRI PARA WAS FIRST HELD 2001, BUT ALMOST A WOULD PASS BEFORE A SEND. THE PARA RETURNED 2010, BUT THE EVENT WAS MET BY THOANDS OF RIGHT-WG PROTTORS WHO VLENTLY LAID WASTE TO THE CENTRE OF THE CY. PRI RETURNED TO THE CY AGA 2014 AND HAS BEEN HELD EVERY YEAR SCE, BUT IS GENERALLY HELD UNR IMMENSE ARY SECURY. EPIC MOROCCO FROM ANCIENT CI TO THE SAHARA, EMBRACE CULTURAL RICH AND ENCHANTG LANDSP NORTH AI. VIEW TRIP NATNALISTS WERE OUT FORCE AT THE 2010 PRI PARA | © HERICH-BöLL-STIFTUNG/FLICKR NOT ALL DOOM AND GLOOM SO ALL ALL, THGS AREN’T GREAT. THERE WAS A SMIDGEN OF OPTIMISM AT THE END OF THAT FIRST PARAGRAPH, HOWEVER, AND ISN’T WHOUT REASON. A POLL 2017 FOUND THAT 59% OF SERBIANS AGREE THAT PEOPLE SHOULD ENJOY THE SAME RIGHTS REGARDLS OF SEXUAL PREFERENCE, WH 65% BELIEVG THE SAME FOR TRANSGENR PEOPLE. REGRETTABLY, THE SAME POLL FOUND THAT 21% OF SERBIANS FELT THAT HOMOSEXUALS SHOULD BE CHARGED AS CRIMALS. BUT THGS ARE IMPROVG. 2011’S PARADASHONE A LIGHT ON THE SUBJECT AND RECEIVED GENERALLY POSIVE REVIEWS THE SERBIAN MEDIA – ALTHOUGH SOME WERE QUICK TO DISMISS AS LTLE MORE THAN A CYNIL MARKETG PLOY. AS MORE AND MORE TERNATNAL MEDIA AND FLUENCE ENTERS BELGRA’S SOCIETY, ATTUS WILL NTUE TO AMELRATE. PRI AT REPUBLIC SQUARE | © BALKANSCAT/SHUTTERSTOCK LGBT-IENDLY SPOTS TTH BE TOLD, THERE AREN’T A HUGE AMOUNT OF BARS AND CLUBS THE CY THAT WOULD QUALIFY AS LGBT-IENDLY. PLEASURE AND MUSK STAND OUT, WHILE KC GRAD AND MOST OF THE BARS AT CETJSKA ONCE AGA SHE AS BEANS OF MORN ATTUS THE SERBIAN PAL. DISCRETN IS STILL ADVISED, HOWEVER, WHICH MORE THAN LIKELY SAYS ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW. ORDARY PEOPLE AREN’T GOG TO GIVE A HOOT WHAT YOU DO WH YOUR GENALS, BUT SERBIA RETAS AN ANGRY GENERATN OF NATNALISTS WHO AREN’T SHY ABOUT MAKG THEIR FEELGS CLEAR. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. KULTURNI CENTAR GRAD | © KULTURNI CENTAR GRAD/FACEBOOK VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?

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. Public OpnPublic opn polls particular regns of Serbia have found that homophobic beliefs SurveysOrthodox Christian Support for Church's Posn of Refg to Perform Same-Sex MarriageHistoryHomosexual activy Serbia? Homosexual activy Serbia is legal.

Servg openly ary Serbia is lbians, gays, bisexuals permted, transgenr people banned. Lbians, gays, bisexuals permted, transgenr people banned only 26 untri allow transgenr Millary service, Serbia is unfortunately not of themBlood donatns by MSMs Serbia?

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.

BELGRA GAY GUI

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.

THOANDS MARCH BELGRA AGAST PLANNED GAY PRI PARA

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.

Eventually, the new Yugoslav Crimal Co of 1929 banned “lewdns agast the orr of nature” (anal terurse) between human begs (heterosexual and homosexual).

The Socialist Feral Republic of Yugoslavia later rtricted the offense 1959 to only apply to homosexual anal terurse but wh maximum sentence rced om 2 to 1 year imprisonment. First crimalisatn of homosexualy Serbia happened the Socialist Autonomo Provce of Vojvoda while same-sex sexual terurse remaed illegal the rt of the Socialist Republic of Serbia, cludg Socialist Autonomo Provce of Kosovo.

PROTTERS MARCH BELGRA AGAST PLANNED GAY PRI EVENT

In 1990, Vojvoda was rerporated to the legal system of Serbia and male homosexualy once aga beme a crimal offense. Serbia, as part of Yugoslavia, crimalised homosexualy 1994. In the early years, lbian anisatn Labris, filed three plats to the Commissner, all related to homophobic, discrimatory statements ma by public figur.

Large numbers of the populatn ntue to have strong negative attus agast homosexualy and trans inti. There have been numero stanc of vlent gay-bashg, the most extreme durg the first Belgra Pri 2001. However, was met wh vlent reactn and rts attend by 6, 000 anti-gay protters and extreme natnalist group members.

In May 2014, Amnty Internatnal intified Serbia as one of the several untri where there is a marked lack of will to tackle homophobia and transphobia, notg particular that sce 2011 thori have banned Pri march on grounds of vlent threats om homophobic groups. Activists Serbia assert that the untry cultivat “a fiercely homophobic culture that begs wh the anti-gay teachgs of the Serbian Orthodox Church, further legimised by major polil figur and enforced by a vlent street culture of natnalist thugs and soccer hooligans. For example, a public survey March 2008 showed that 70 percent of those terviewed nsired homosexualy a sickns.

YOUNG AND GAY BELGRA

The same survey dited that Serbians do not ny the prence of LGBT dividuals (67 percent) rather, they are opposed to public exprsns of LGBT inty, wh 75 percent of rponnts opposg gay paras. A rearch rried out by Commissner for Protectn of Equaly 2012 showed that 48% of Serbs believe that homosexualy is an illns.

E) Official surrogacy for gay upl.

Commercial surrogacy for gays is banned by law. One of the ma issu Serbia is the implementatn of anti-discrimatn legislatn as well as poor reportg rerds of homophobic and transphobic discrimatn. Pervasive homophobia society leads to disproportnate vlence and discrimatn.