Serbia's lbian prime mister said on Sunday she was workg "one step at a time" towards a more tolerant society, as she joed Belgra's annual gay march held unr heavy secury.
Contents:
- SERBIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER ATTENDS BELGRA PRI MARCH
- BELGRA GAY GUI
- 17 SEPTEMBER 2017 - GAY PRI PARA BELGRA SERBIA. OPPOSN FOR THE GAY PRI PARA
- EUROPE, SERBIA, BELGRA, SEPTEMBER 17, 2017 : GAY PRI FOR THE STREETS OF BELGRA. IN A CY BLOCKED AND ARMED BY POLICE FOR FEAR OF ATTACKS BY HOM
- 211 GAY PRI DAY IN BELGRA STOCK PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR
- PHOTOS: SERBIA HOLDS LGBT MARCH BELGRA, FIRST OPENLY GAY PM JOS
- GAY PRI PARA BELGRA, SERBIA
- SERBIA'S GAY PM JOS PRI PARA BELGRASERBIA'S LBIAN PRIME MISTER SAID ON SUNDAY SHE WAS WORKG "ONE STEP AT A TIME" TOWARDS A MORE TOLERANT SOCIETY, AS SHE JOED BELGRA'S ANNUAL GAY MARCH HELD UNR HEAVY SECURY.SERBIA'S LBIAN PRIME MISTER ON SEPTEMBER 17 JOED HUNDREDS OF ACTIVISTS WH RABOW FLAGS FOR BELGRA'S ANNUAL GAY PRI MARCH. SOURCE: AAPANA BRNABIC, 41, BEME ONE OF THE FEW OPENLY GAY ERNMENT LEARS THE WORLD WHEN SHE ME TO POWER JUNE, BUT ACTIVISTS SAY HOMOPHOBIA REMAS A WISPREAD PROBLEM THE NSERVATIVE BALKAN UNTRY.SETTG OFF ON THE PRI PARA WH HUNDREDS OF ACTIVISTS WAVG RABOW FLAGS AND BALLOONS, BRNABIC WAS KEEN TO GIVE A MORE POSIVE MSAGE, SAYG SERBIA WAS "FALLY SHOWG WHAT I BELIEVE IS S TE FACE".MORE NEWSUS ULD STAY PARIS CLIMATE ACRD 'UNR RIGHT NDNS,' SAYS TILLERSONHAMAS AGRE TO STEPS TOWARDS ENDG -LONG FD WH FATAH"WE DO HAVE A VERY LOUD MORY, AN AGGRSIVE MORY OF PEOPLE WHO ARE AGAST THIS, BUT MOST OF THE PEOPLE SERBIA, I THK, ARE PEOPLE WHO THK TERMS OF 'LIVE AND LET LIVE'," SHE TOLD AFP.SHE ENURAGED GAY YOUNGSTERS TO BE "FULL OF UNRSTANDG FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE VERY TRADNAL AND WHO DO NOT YET TLY UNRSTAND WHAT THIS IS ABOUT".IN 2010, BELGRA'S PRI PARA SCEND TO CLASH BETWEEN ANTI-GAY PROTTERS AND POLICE, JURG MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE AND PROMPTG A THREE-YEAR BAN ON THE EVENT.SERBIAN PRIME MISTER ANA BRNABIC (C) ATTENDS THE BELGRA PRI PARA MARCH BELGRA, SERBIA, 17 SEPTEMBER 2017. SOURCE: AAPTHIS IS THE FOURTH NSECUTIVE YEAR THE MARCH HAS GONE AHEAD UNR A HUGE SECURY PRENCE, AND THE FIRST TIME A PRIME MISTER HAS ATTEND.BRNABIC, WHO WORE JEANS AND A DARK JACKET AND POSED FOR SELFI WH MARCHERS, SAID THE PARA WAS "MORE RELAXED" THAN PREV YEARS, WH A SHARP RCTN POLICE NUMBERS. AROUND 2,000 ARMED OFFICERS GUARD THE RDONED-OFF STREETS AS ACTIVISTS MARCHED THROUGH THE CY, ACPANIED BY A SOUNDTRACK OF POP MIC AND A POLICE HELIPTER BUZZG OVERHEAD.'PKWASHG' SPICNSBRNABIC WAS CHOSEN FOR THE TOP JOB BY HER PRECSOR, ALEKSANDAR VUCIC, AFTER HE WAS ELECTED PRINT. SHE HAD ENTERED POLICS LS THAN A YEAR EARLIER AS PUBLIC ADMISTRATN MISTER.HER APPOTMENT, ENDORSED BY PARLIAMENT, MA TERNATNAL HEADL. BUT SCEPTICS SPECTED AN ATTEMPT AT "PKWASHG", WH BRNABIC ED AS A PUPPET BY VUCIC TO IMPROVE SERBIA'S IMAGE AS MPAIGNS TO JO THE EUROPEAN UNN.CRICS ALLEGE THAT VUCIC -- STILL THE UNTRY'S MOST POWERFUL POLICIAN -- IS A POPULIST THORARIAN WHO STYL HIMSELF AS THE ONLY ONE PABLE OF MATAG SERBIAN STABILY.BRNABIC, A TECHNOCRAT WH A BS BACKGROUND, HAS FIRMLY DISMISSED ALLEGATNS THAT SHE WAS CHOSEN MERELY BEE OF HER SEXUAL ORIENTATN."I'M PROUD TO BE LIVG A UNTRY WH A PRINT WHO HAS ACTUALLY, OUT OF ALL THE PEOPLE, SAID 'I DO NOT RE WHETHER SHE'S GAY OR STRAIGHT, I RE WHETHER I THK SHE'S PABLE'," SHE SAID ON THE MARCH.'A PRAGMATIC PERSON'IN A SURVEY NDUCTED 2015 BY THE WASHGTON-BASED NATNAL DEMOCRATIC INSTUTE, ONLY 12 PERCENT OF SERBIAN RPONNTS SAID THEY WOULD PLETELY SUPPORT THEIR CHILD IF THEY WERE HOMOSEXUAL.ALTHOUGH THE UNTRY HAS VAR LEGAL ACTS ADDRSG GENR INTY AND ANTI-GAY DISCRIMATN, RIGHTS ACTIVISTS SAY THAT IMPLEMENTATN IS POOR.THEY ARE NOW MPAIGNG FOR THE ADOPTN OF A LAW ON SAME-SEX PARTNERSHIPS, FOR WHICH THEY HOPE TO W THE PREMIER'S SUPPORT.THERE HAD BEEN FEARS OF ATTACKS OM EXTREMISTS THE PREDOMANTLY NSERVATIVE BALKAN UNTRY SEEKG EUROPEAN UNN MEMBERSHIP. SOURCE: AAPASKED WHETHER SHE WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE LAW PASS, BRNABIC SAID: "I N'T GIVE YOU MY PERSONAL OPN RIGHT NOW BEE I'M HERE AS THE PRIME MISTER REPRENTG THE SERBIAN ERNMENT."SHE SAID SHE WOULD DISCS THE ISSUE WH MISTERS AND CIVIL SOCIETY GROUPS TO "SEE WHAT IS THAT WE NEED TO DO TO ENABLE CIVIL LIBERTI SERBIA"."I'M A VERY PRAGMATIC PERSON, FOR ME 'S ONE STEP AT A TIME, AND I THK IF WE GO ONE STEP AT A TIME, THAT IS HOW WE BUILD A MORE TOLERANT SOCIETY."THE PREMIER'S ATTENDANCE AT THE MARCH DREW A LARGELY POSIVE RPONSE OM PARTICIPANTS WHO SPOKE TO AFP, ALTHOUGH IVANA MROVIC, A 35-YEAR-OLD OM THE NORTHERN CY OF NOVI SAD, WAS SCEPTIL."I DON'T LIKE THE ERNMENT. IT'S ALL FOR SHOW," SHE SAID.OTHERS THOUGHT BRNABIC'S VISIBILY ULD SPIRE YOUNG GAY AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE EVEN TRADNALLY-MD SMALL VILLAG."FOR ME THAT'S A GOOD THG," SAID NEVENA PUPIC, 34, A RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND FANCIAL OFFICER OM BELGRA.SHARE4 M READPUBLISHED 18 SEPTEMBER 2017 5:29AMUPDATED 18 SEPTEMBER 2017 8:38AMSOURCE: AFP, SBSTAGSWORLDSOCIAL ISSUSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU
- 211 GAY PRI DAY IN BELGRA STOCK PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR
- 17 SEPTEMBER 2017 - GAY PRI PARA BELGRA SERBIA. OPPOSN FOR THE GAY PRI PARA ON THE STREETS
- PROTTERS MARCH BELGRA AGAST PLANNED GAY PRI EVENT
- COPS OUTNUMBER MARCHERS BELGRA GAY PRI PARA
SERBIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER ATTENDS BELGRA PRI MARCH
Serbian Prime Mister Ana Brnabic joed gay activists Sunday at a pri march held amid tight secury the nservative Balkan untry. * gay pride belgrade 2017 *
Serbia's first-ever openly gay prime mister joed gay activists Sunday at a pri march held amid tight secury the nservative Balkan 's Prime Mister, Ana Brnabic, center, attends a gay pri march Belgra, Serbia, Sunday, Sept. 18, 2017, 2:28 PM UTC / Source: RtersBELGRADE, Serbia — Serbia's first openly gay prime mister joed several hundred gay activists Sunday at a gay pri march that was held amid tight secury the nservative Balkan untry.
Gay activists Serbia have hailed Brnabic's electn as an important step their stggle for gay rights, but say much more still needs to be done. "Today we walk together and together we will strs that problems still exist and that we want to work together to solve them, " said activist Goran rry signs and rabow flags durg the Gay Pri para on September 17, 2017 Isakovic / AFP - Getty ImagSerbia's embattled gays have faced wispread harassment and vlence om extremists. The first pri march 2001 was marred wh vlence, and more than 100 people were jured durg a gay pri event 2010 when police clashed wh right-wg groups and soccer hooligans.
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The Serbian homosexual muny lls for rights. As the Serbian pal of Belgra took to the streets celebratg the 2017 LGBT Pri Para through the cy, Prime Mister Ana Brnabic, one of the world's few openly gay ernment lears joed wh a msage ‘that diversy mak our society stronger, that together we n do more.
Ana Brnabic, 41, beme one of the first openly gay ernment lears the world when she me to power June, but activists say homophobia remas a wispread problem Serbia.
Two women take a selfie durg the Gay Pri para on September 17, 2017 Belgra. A woman reacts while ridg a bicycle durg the Gay Pri para Belgra. A woman watch gay rights activists and a child hold up a rabow flag durg the gay pri march Belgra, Serbia.
SERBIA'S GAY PM JOS PRI PARA BELGRASERBIA'S LBIAN PRIME MISTER SAID ON SUNDAY SHE WAS WORKG "ONE STEP AT A TIME" TOWARDS A MORE TOLERANT SOCIETY, AS SHE JOED BELGRA'S ANNUAL GAY MARCH HELD UNR HEAVY SECURY.SERBIA'S LBIAN PRIME MISTER ON SEPTEMBER 17 JOED HUNDREDS OF ACTIVISTS WH RABOW FLAGS FOR BELGRA'S ANNUAL GAY PRI MARCH. SOURCE: AAPANA BRNABIC, 41, BEME ONE OF THE FEW OPENLY GAY ERNMENT LEARS THE WORLD WHEN SHE ME TO POWER JUNE, BUT ACTIVISTS SAY HOMOPHOBIA REMAS A WISPREAD PROBLEM THE NSERVATIVE BALKAN UNTRY.SETTG OFF ON THE PRI PARA WH HUNDREDS OF ACTIVISTS WAVG RABOW FLAGS AND BALLOONS, BRNABIC WAS KEEN TO GIVE A MORE POSIVE MSAGE, SAYG SERBIA WAS "FALLY SHOWG WHAT I BELIEVE IS S TE FACE".MORE NEWSUS ULD STAY PARIS CLIMATE ACRD 'UNR RIGHT NDNS,' SAYS TILLERSONHAMAS AGRE TO STEPS TOWARDS ENDG -LONG FD WH FATAH"WE DO HAVE A VERY LOUD MORY, AN AGGRSIVE MORY OF PEOPLE WHO ARE AGAST THIS, BUT MOST OF THE PEOPLE SERBIA, I THK, ARE PEOPLE WHO THK TERMS OF 'LIVE AND LET LIVE'," SHE TOLD AFP.SHE ENURAGED GAY YOUNGSTERS TO BE "FULL OF UNRSTANDG FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE VERY TRADNAL AND WHO DO NOT YET TLY UNRSTAND WHAT THIS IS ABOUT".IN 2010, BELGRA'S PRI PARA SCEND TO CLASH BETWEEN ANTI-GAY PROTTERS AND POLICE, JURG MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE AND PROMPTG A THREE-YEAR BAN ON THE EVENT.SERBIAN PRIME MISTER ANA BRNABIC (C) ATTENDS THE BELGRA PRI PARA MARCH BELGRA, SERBIA, 17 SEPTEMBER 2017. SOURCE: AAPTHIS IS THE FOURTH NSECUTIVE YEAR THE MARCH HAS GONE AHEAD UNR A HUGE SECURY PRENCE, AND THE FIRST TIME A PRIME MISTER HAS ATTEND.BRNABIC, WHO WORE JEANS AND A DARK JACKET AND POSED FOR SELFI WH MARCHERS, SAID THE PARA WAS "MORE RELAXED" THAN PREV YEARS, WH A SHARP RCTN POLICE NUMBERS. AROUND 2,000 ARMED OFFICERS GUARD THE RDONED-OFF STREETS AS ACTIVISTS MARCHED THROUGH THE CY, ACPANIED BY A SOUNDTRACK OF POP MIC AND A POLICE HELIPTER BUZZG OVERHEAD.'PKWASHG' SPICNSBRNABIC WAS CHOSEN FOR THE TOP JOB BY HER PRECSOR, ALEKSANDAR VUCIC, AFTER HE WAS ELECTED PRINT. SHE HAD ENTERED POLICS LS THAN A YEAR EARLIER AS PUBLIC ADMISTRATN MISTER.HER APPOTMENT, ENDORSED BY PARLIAMENT, MA TERNATNAL HEADL. BUT SCEPTICS SPECTED AN ATTEMPT AT "PKWASHG", WH BRNABIC ED AS A PUPPET BY VUCIC TO IMPROVE SERBIA'S IMAGE AS MPAIGNS TO JO THE EUROPEAN UNN.CRICS ALLEGE THAT VUCIC -- STILL THE UNTRY'S MOST POWERFUL POLICIAN -- IS A POPULIST THORARIAN WHO STYL HIMSELF AS THE ONLY ONE PABLE OF MATAG SERBIAN STABILY.BRNABIC, A TECHNOCRAT WH A BS BACKGROUND, HAS FIRMLY DISMISSED ALLEGATNS THAT SHE WAS CHOSEN MERELY BEE OF HER SEXUAL ORIENTATN."I'M PROUD TO BE LIVG A UNTRY WH A PRINT WHO HAS ACTUALLY, OUT OF ALL THE PEOPLE, SAID 'I DO NOT RE WHETHER SHE'S GAY OR STRAIGHT, I RE WHETHER I THK SHE'S PABLE'," SHE SAID ON THE MARCH.'A PRAGMATIC PERSON'IN A SURVEY NDUCTED 2015 BY THE WASHGTON-BASED NATNAL DEMOCRATIC INSTUTE, ONLY 12 PERCENT OF SERBIAN RPONNTS SAID THEY WOULD PLETELY SUPPORT THEIR CHILD IF THEY WERE HOMOSEXUAL.ALTHOUGH THE UNTRY HAS VAR LEGAL ACTS ADDRSG GENR INTY AND ANTI-GAY DISCRIMATN, RIGHTS ACTIVISTS SAY THAT IMPLEMENTATN IS POOR.THEY ARE NOW MPAIGNG FOR THE ADOPTN OF A LAW ON SAME-SEX PARTNERSHIPS, FOR WHICH THEY HOPE TO W THE PREMIER'S SUPPORT.THERE HAD BEEN FEARS OF ATTACKS OM EXTREMISTS THE PREDOMANTLY NSERVATIVE BALKAN UNTRY SEEKG EUROPEAN UNN MEMBERSHIP. SOURCE: AAPASKED WHETHER SHE WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE LAW PASS, BRNABIC SAID: "I N'T GIVE YOU MY PERSONAL OPN RIGHT NOW BEE I'M HERE AS THE PRIME MISTER REPRENTG THE SERBIAN ERNMENT."SHE SAID SHE WOULD DISCS THE ISSUE WH MISTERS AND CIVIL SOCIETY GROUPS TO "SEE WHAT IS THAT WE NEED TO DO TO ENABLE CIVIL LIBERTI SERBIA"."I'M A VERY PRAGMATIC PERSON, FOR ME 'S ONE STEP AT A TIME, AND I THK IF WE GO ONE STEP AT A TIME, THAT IS HOW WE BUILD A MORE TOLERANT SOCIETY."THE PREMIER'S ATTENDANCE AT THE MARCH DREW A LARGELY POSIVE RPONSE OM PARTICIPANTS WHO SPOKE TO AFP, ALTHOUGH IVANA MROVIC, A 35-YEAR-OLD OM THE NORTHERN CY OF NOVI SAD, WAS SCEPTIL."I DON'T LIKE THE ERNMENT. IT'S ALL FOR SHOW," SHE SAID.OTHERS THOUGHT BRNABIC'S VISIBILY ULD SPIRE YOUNG GAY AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE EVEN TRADNALLY-MD SMALL VILLAG."FOR ME THAT'S A GOOD THG," SAID NEVENA PUPIC, 34, A RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND FANCIAL OFFICER OM BELGRA.SHARE4 M READPUBLISHED 18 SEPTEMBER 2017 5:29AMUPDATED 18 SEPTEMBER 2017 8:38AMSOURCE: AFP, SBSTAGSWORLDSOCIAL ISSUSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU
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Gay rights activists Serbia have hailed her ascensn as an important step their stggle, but say much more needs to be done. Serbia's prime mister Ana Brnabic (C) attends the Gay Pri para Belgra.
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People dance durg gay pri march Belgra, Serbia on Sunday, September 17, 2017. Two women react durg the Gay Pri para on September 17, 2017 Belgra. Brnabic is one of few current lears worldwi who are openly gay.
Serbian gay right activists marched wh their first openly lbian prime mister through the streets of Belgra on Sunday, amid tight secury.
My msage today is that the Serbian ernment is here for all of s cizens … the people have the right to march, ” Prime Mister Ana Brnabic said as marchers waved rabow flags and blew whistl around approached Prime Mister Ana Brnabic, greetg her and takg ’s Gay Prime Mister March Belgra Pri Para for First Time as Extremist Groups Prott: WATCH Towleroad (@tlrd) September 17, 2017Wispread homophobiaCampaigners scribed the event as a tt of the nservative Balkan state’s rights rerd as seeks to jo the European EU said 2016 Serbia need to do more to help mori cludg Roma, disabled, lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Goran Miletic told reporters human rights had improved over the past . Homophobia remas wispread Serbia and other societi the last week, the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church last week pared homosexualy to paedophilia and ct.
17 SEPTEMBER 2017 - GAY PRI PARA BELGRA SERBIA. OPPOSN FOR THE GAY PRI PARA ON THE STREETS
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. * gay pride belgrade 2017 *
Ana Brnabic, 41, beme one of the few openly gay ernment lears the world when she me to power June, but activists say homophobia remas a wispread problem the nservative Balkan untry. "We do have a very loud mory, an aggrsive mory of people who are agast this, but most of the people Serbia, I thk, are people who thk terms of 'live and let live', " she told enuraged gay youngsters to be "full of unrstandg for people who are very tradnal and who do not yet tly unrstand what this is about" 2010, Belgra's Pri para scend to clash between anti-gay protters and police, jurg more than 100 people and promptg a three-year ban on the event. "I'm proud to be livg a untry wh a print who has actually, out of all the people, said 'I do not re whether she's gay or straight, I re whether I thk she's pable', " she said on the march.
'A pragmatic person'In a survey nducted 2015 by the Washgton-based Natnal Democratic Instute, only 12 percent of Serbian rponnts said they would pletely support their child if they were homosexual. Although the untry has var legal acts addrsg genr inty and anti-gay discrimatn, rights activists say that implementatn is are now mpaigng for the adoptn of a law on same-sex partnerships, for which they hope to w the premier's had been fears of attacks om extremists the predomantly nservative Balkan untry seekg European Unn membership. It's all for show, " she thought Brnabic's visibily uld spire young gay and transgenr people even tradnally-md small villag.
Opposn for the Gay Pri Para on the streets. Serbian terr mister Aleksandar Vul sisted that the ban was enforced, and that the people were merely "rted to a ncert" media reported skirmish epted outsi the event, and a group of hooligans threw flar at the untry's prime mister Ana Brnabic — who is openly gay — said 64 people were arrted and ten police officers jured on Saturday, but unrled that she was "proud" that the day end wh "no major cints" marriage is not legally regnised Serbia, where homophobia remas ep-seated spe some progrs over the years rcg discrimatn. "This is much bigger than a gay pri", La Mazzanti Jovicevic, a Serbian attene, told AFP.
PROTTERS MARCH BELGRA AGAST PLANNED GAY PRI EVENT
" Mol and activist Yasm Beno said she had been to many gay pri paras "but this one is slightly more strsful than the others". 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. BELGRADE, Serbia— -- Some thgs are the same at gay pri paras everywhere -- rabow flags, lorful balloons, mic pumpg om the sound systems, everyone sgg and dancg.
Thoands of Serbian police officers full gear wh water nnons and armored personnel rriers sealed off pal's sunny downtown, a remr that Belgra is not que San Francis, London or Amsterdam when to gay monstratns. Several hundred gays, lbians, bisexuals and transsexuals not only om Serbia but om across the former Yugoslavia, as well as om Italy, Greece, Germany and Canada marched their way trough practilly empty streets of Belgra, for the first time sce 2010, llg for greater tolerance, equal rights and the right to civil event, a culmatn of Pri 2014, a week-long ftival of parti, films and bat, showed Belgra to be a place where gays and lbians aspire the level of acceptance found the Wt, yet rema a part of Christian Orthodox society that is still generally opposed to homosexualy and where policians do not seem ready or willg to change that.
Although there were only several hundred participants, the para today is most likely the largt gatherg of s kd Serbian history, where the event was banned for the last three nsecutive years bee of threats of 2010, the event went forward Belgra but opponents attacked armed police wh ston and Molotov cktails, shoutg "Death to homosexuals! " Police clash wh rters tryg to dispt the para left more than 140 people jured, most of them most part, today's para went smoothly, but many gay men and lbians here say they ntue to fear repercsns om g out of the closet.
COPS OUTNUMBER MARCHERS BELGRA GAY PRI PARA
A Greek man, who said he was there to show his support, remarked that he had never seen so much secury at a gay pri para his life. "In Belgra, lol media live-streamed the day's events and one of the cy's inic landmarks, Albania Palace, turned on s rabow lights to mark Pri were several high-profile misters and a mayor of Belgra marchg today, but even if the lg parti wanted to send gay legislators to jo the march, they uldn't have -- not even one member of Serbian Parliament is openly 's probably the law of paradox that says that the untry to provi the hub for sex-change surgery is Serbia.