January 2012: Following a change in the law, Serbs can now change their sex in a state hospital and get the public to foot most of the bill. Police arrest him immediately but then release him on the grounds that as a minor he may not be charged. October 2011: A youngster stabs a 26-year-old woman wearing an LBGT T-shirt at 4am in the centre of Belgrade. October 2011: Serbian director Srdjan Dragojevic’s surreal, comic drama about Belgrade’s embattled LGBT parades, Parada hits the cinemas. Chanting “This is Serbia” and “We have Pride,” around 200 gay activists hold an unofficial mini-Pride parade. October 2011: The authorities cave in to extremists and ban the Belgrade Pride Parade on security grounds. “Great progress has been made in the political landscape,” he says. October 2010: Popular folk singer Jelena Karleusa writes a column in support of gay rights.ĭecember 2010: Gay rights activist Boris Milicevic is elected to the board of the Socialist Party of Serbia. October 2010: Gay Pride goes ahead, but several thousand young people, including football fans and members of right-wing organisations, cause mayhem on the streets, throwing stones and missiles, injuring police officers and setting buildings and vehicles on fire. The organisers of the parade call this unacceptable and cancel the event.ĭecember 2009: Belgrade’s first gay film festival is held in the city’s Dom Omladine.Ģ010: The Serbian Army agrees that openly gay men and women may serve in the forces. September 2009: Citing an inability to maintain security at the event, Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic advises organisers of the 2009 Pride Parade to move their planned rally from the streets of central Belgrade to Usce Park, a venue traditionally used for rock concerts. September 2009: AmfilohijeRadovic, a leading bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church, equates Pride parades with “Sodom and Gomorrah”.
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March 2009: Parliament approves a new anti-discrimination law, which prohibits, among other things, discrimination on the grounds of sexuality and sexual orientation.
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The movie in question recalls the life and death of gay rights activist Harvey Milk in San Francisco. March 2008: A public opinion survey shows 70 per cent of those interviewed consider homosexuality a sickness.įebruary 2009: The refusal of Belgrade’s Sava Centar to allow a Serbian gay rights group to hold a press conference on the movie “ Milk” sparks a debate on sexual minorities. September 2006: Serbia’s new constitution defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman civil unions or domestic partnerships are neither mentioned nor prohibited.Ģ007: Queeria Calendar, which comprises photographs or collages of prominent regional cultural figures, is published. July 2005: A change in the Labour Law bans discrimination based on sexual orientation in employment. The only arrested suspect, believed to be an ex-lover, is later freed of all charges. March 2003: Well-known transvestite Vjeran Miladinovic, aka Merlinka, is murdered, aged 43. July 2002: Parliament approves the Broadcasting Law (Article 21), which obliges the Broadcasting Agency to prevent the spread of information encouraging discrimination, hate and violence based on sexual orientation (among other categories).
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The group disrupts the march and beats up the participants.
Gay pride day 2008 trial#
July 2001: A few days after Slobodan Milosevic is sent to stand trial in The Hague, ultra-nationalists focus their rage on a small group of people who have gathered in Belgrade to hold Serbia’s first Pride march. 1994: Homosexuality is decriminalised in Serbia.