A few days after Viktor Orbán said that the LGBT community is not wasting time preparing the march, the Hungarian government announced an official decision - there will be no Pride in Budapest this year.
If this year's Pride were to be compared to those of a decade or more ago, a big improvement would be that no one was beaten, that there were no major attacks on participants or the police, and, ultimately, that Pride took place at all. On the other hand, if you look at the atmosphere on social networks, which over the years have become a significant part of the average person's life and an indicator of social mood and attitudes, the road to tolerance and acceptance is long.
In the period leading up to the Belgrade Pride, numerous hateful messages addressed to the LGBTQ+ population were spread through right-wing communication channels, "Vreme" found when monitoring social networks. Psychologist Vladimir Mihić speaks for "Vreme" about the role of social networks, but also the role of politicians in strengthening that hatred, as well as whether and how it can be eradicated.
The tenth Pride has ended in Belgrade. It was cheerful, peaceful and numerous. Among the participants there was a noticeable number of people from the region, and families are also new to the walk. The organizers hope that by the next Pride, all the demands of the LGBT+ community will be met
Despite the calmer atmosphere during Pride, the everyday reality of LGBT+ people in Serbia includes threats, physical attacks and inadequate response from institutions. That is why the list of demands remains the same for the tenth year
The demands of Beaugard Pride have not changed for years and there are a total of eight of them, none of which have been fulfilled so far. Given that people are the focus of this year's campaign, the emphasis was placed on the first three demands related to legal solutions
One of the organizers of Pride, Goran Miletić, told the portal "Vremena" that as far as attempts at employment are concerned, trans people are certainly in the worst position, but so are other members of the LGBT community whose visual identity deviates from what is usual.
According to the organizers' estimate, between 10.000 and 15.000 people participated in the walk in Belgrade on Saturday. And yet, members of the LGBT community in Serbia are not even close to realizing their human rights
Apart from Pavlo Grbović and the Democratic Party, the rest of the opposition is silent about Pride. Cowardice seems to have won. How can we trust them that they really want Serbia against violence?
The weekend in Belgrade starts with the "Serbia against violence" protest on Friday, the Pride walk on Saturday, as well as the promotion of the youngest officers of the Serbian Armed Forces.
We did not discuss whether we will support this year's Pride under the brand "Serbia against violence", but I know that some of us will definitely support it because it is, above all, our obligation," says Pavle Grbović, MP and president of the Movement of Free Citizens for "Vremena" portal
The participants of the "I will not have a gay parade in Belgrade" protest, after the well-known rhetoric, went to the Government building to submit a request to ban the Pride Parade.
Stonewall was a safe house for all the poor, marginalized people rejected by family and friends, who could not afford to enter the more exclusive LGBT gathering places. Apart from Stonewall, they really had nothing else to lose. And then, at the end of June 1969, the police came to take that away from them as well, wrote "Vreme" in issue 1135
The walk as part of Europride still received security guarantees from the Government. In the very finish, Vučić accepted what he should have accepted from the first day. It's like that every time he calls out to him
