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• SERBIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER ATTENDS BELGRA PRI MARCH
• 211 GAY PRI DAY IN BELGRA STOCK PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR
• THOANDS MARCH BELGRA AGAST PLANNED GAY PRI PARA
• BELGRADE, SERBIA - SEPTEMBER 17, 2017: SERBIAN POLICEMEN PROTECTG THE 2017 EDN OF THE BELGRA GAY PRI. THE PARA HAPPENED THIS YEAR WHOUT TROUBLE, UNR HUGE POLICE WATCH. PICTURE OF THE 2017 EDN OF THE BELGRA GAY PRI SERBIA. THE PRI WAS HELD ON THE 17TH OF SEPTEMBER, WAS THE THIRD NSECUTIVE EDN WHOUT CLASH, AFTER SEVERAL YEARS OF PROHIBN, AND OTHER YEARS WHERE HUGE FIGHTS OPPOSED MONSTRATORS, POLICEMEN AND ANTI-HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS
• BELGRA GAY PRI 2015
• BELGRA GAY PRI STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• SERBIAN PRIME MISTER JOS BELGRA GAY-PRI MARCH
• PROTTERS MARCH BELGRA AGAST PLANNED GAY PRI EVENT
• PROTTERS MARCH BELGRA AGAST PLANNED GAY PRI EVENT
• SERBIA GAY PRI MARCH ATTACKED WH BOMBS, STON
• 211 GAY PRI DAY IN BELGRA STOCK PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR
• THOANDS MARCH BELGRA AGAST PLANNED GAY PRI PARA
• 211 GAY PRI DAY IN BELGRA STOCK PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

SERBIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER ATTENDS BELGRA PRI MARCH

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.

211 GAY PRI DAY IN BELGRA STOCK PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR

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.

THOANDS MARCH BELGRA AGAST PLANNED GAY PRI PARA

"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. 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 .

Photo Boban KarovicThe succsful gay para this year Belgra rulted a rather dirty aftermath among the participants.

BELGRADE, SERBIA - SEPTEMBER 17, 2017: SERBIAN POLICEMEN PROTECTG THE 2017 EDN OF THE BELGRA GAY PRI. THE PARA HAPPENED THIS YEAR WHOUT TROUBLE, UNR HUGE POLICE WATCH. PICTURE OF THE 2017 EDN OF THE BELGRA GAY PRI SERBIA. THE PRI WAS HELD ON THE 17TH OF SEPTEMBER, WAS THE THIRD NSECUTIVE EDN WHOUT CLASH, AFTER SEVERAL YEARS OF PROHIBN, AND OTHER YEARS WHERE HUGE FIGHTS OPPOSED MONSTRATORS, POLICEMEN AND ANTI-HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS

I am pleased that this year this dangero, always threatened event was a tly "gay" para. I wasn't there myself, but I saw the social media verage, bee var notable polil and other stars marched along wh the gay activists, attractg plenty of attentn.

The para looked rather normalized, like a gay pri para anywhere outsi the Balkans. Women Black were, of urse, the first group Serbia that ever supported gay rights. They sheltered draft evars, pecially gay on, their own hom.

BELGRA GAY PRI 2015

But that was then, and this is now, so when a Woman Black livered an activist speech durg the Pri Para, she got as much sexist and offensive reactn as the gays ed to get the bad old did Women Black beme the new gays of the prent season? In 2001 I was one among those persecuted and asslted the streets of Belgra for fendg gays.

BELGRA GAY PRI STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

Never satisfied wh their own fame and glory, they are driven to ny the pneer work we did wh you, straight and fancy morn Belgra, for not beg btally antigay anymore.

Hundreds of gay-rights activists attend a pri march Serbia's pal, Belgra, on September 17 unr massive police supervisn.

SERBIAN PRIME MISTER JOS BELGRA GAY-PRI MARCH

(REUTERS/Zorana Jevtic)Belgra is due to host the EuroPri march on Sept 17, an event staged a different European cy each yearThoands 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, 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.

Anti-gay protters face rt policemen central Belgra on October 10. STORY HIGHLIGHTSNEW: About 1, 000 people marched, protected by nearly 5, 000 officersInterr mistry: About 40 police officers were jured, and about 60 people were arrtedA gay pri march me unr attack Belgra 2001 (CNN) -- Petrol bombs and ston were thrown at police protectg a gay pri march Sunday Belgra, the pal of Serbia, an terr mistry reprentative told CNN.

PROTTERS MARCH BELGRA AGAST PLANNED GAY PRI EVENT

A gay pri march 2001 -- thought to be the untry's first -- was attacked, rultg some juri. Last year's march was nceled due to secury ncerns after a wave of anti-gay graffi appeared before the event, news reports at the time said.

PROTTERS MARCH BELGRA AGAST PLANNED GAY PRI EVENT

He explaed at the time: “Parada, a tragiic way, tells the story about the ongog battle between two worlds ntemporary post-war Serbian society - the tradnal, opprsive, homophobic majory and a liberal, morn and open-md mory.

SERBIA GAY PRI MARCH ATTACKED WH BOMBS, STON

The European Commissn agast Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), which is the Council of Europe’s pennt monorg body alg wh racism, homophobia and transphobia, also plans to start s work on a new General Policy Remendatn on LGBTI issu 2022. REUTERS/Zorana Jevtic Acquire Licensg RightsBELGRADE, 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 .

211 GAY PRI DAY IN BELGRA STOCK PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR

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.

THOANDS MARCH BELGRA AGAST PLANNED GAY PRI PARA

” He said he knew there would be “mega hysteria, ” but he end wh the hashtag “#Proudtobegay. ”He is one of jt a few openly gay heads of state the world.

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. 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. Gay, lbian and bisexual people n serve the ary, but transgenr people nnot.

211 GAY PRI DAY IN BELGRA STOCK PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR

“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. Around 100 activists and their supporters, rted by police, took to the streets of Belgra to celebrate gay pri on June 23.

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