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• THOANDS MARCH BELGRA AGAST PLANNED GAY PRI PARA
• THOANDS MARCH BELGRA AGAST PLANNED GAY PRI PARA
• POWERFUL PHOTOS SHOW THE FIRST GAY PRI MARCH IN SERBIA IN FOUR YEARS

THOANDS MARCH BELGRA AGAST PLANNED GAY PRI PARA

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 . ”A gay activist Belgra is attacked durg the cy’s first Pri march June 2001.

The rt of Serbia is as homophobic as ever. 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.

“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.

THOANDS MARCH BELGRA AGAST PLANNED GAY PRI PARA

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.

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe annual gay pri event was to take place September Belgra. Print Aleksandar Vucic said the timg was bad, cg “numero problems” currently affectg the Ltner/RtersPrint Aleksandar Vucic of Serbia announced on Saturday that he would not perm EuroPri, an annual weeklong gay pri event, to take place next month his untry’s pal, Belgra, shockg the event’s anizers, who nounced the cisn and vowed to go ahead Vucic, spe notg that he was “not happy” about the cisn, said that was not the right time to host the event.

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

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