Serbia’s police have banned a Pri march planned amid pan-European LGBTQ events beg held this week Belgra, cg a risk of clash wh far-right anti-gay activists.
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SERBIA: FOR GAYS, A GHETTO MORN EUROPE
LGBT Rights Serbia: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * gay rights in serbia *
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?
Lbians, gays, bisexuals permted, transgenr people banned only 26 untri allow transgenr Millary service, Serbia is unfortunately not of themBlood donatns by MSMs Serbia? Across the Wtern Balkans, Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual and Intersex (LGBTI) people are fightg for their rights to lead a normal life. A pan-European pri para Belgra took place wh police protectn, spe thori havg banned , unrsrg the prer suatn for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people Serbia.
The Centre for Equaly and Liberty, a civil society anizatn that works for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people Kosovo, rerd five s of threats and attacks agast LGBT people Kosovo, four of which relate to vlence by fay members or partners agast transgenr persons. 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.
PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS SERBIA, WH A CATCH
Ana Brnabic uld be the untry’s first openly gay prime mister. She uld also be a y a ploy by Print Vucic. * gay rights in serbia *
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". "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. 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.
A summary of the key events leadg up to this year’s Pri Para, showg the velopment of lbian and gay history terms of social, polil and legislative change. * gay rights in serbia *
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’. 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.