[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Serbia’s Prime Minister, Ana Brnabic, has pledged her full endorsement to Belgrade Pride’s bid to host EuroPride in 2022. In her statement, the Prime Minister said, “the government I lead is committed to ensuring the full respect of human rights of all citizens and we hereby promise to help the Belgrade Pride organising team […]readmore

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Belgrade Pride is organizing the first LGBT+ themed theatre festival during Pride Week, which will be held from September  10thto September 14th 2019. Conceived by Belgrade Pride’s member organisation, Heartefact, as an annual event with the aim to raise the visibility of the LGBT+ community, the festival explores the various aspects of the LGBT+ […]readmore

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Belgrade’s 2019 “Pride Week” will run from September 9 to September 15 and will end with a walk and parade under the slogan “I’m not giving up,” organisers announced. Belgrade Pride representative Marko Mihailović announced at a press conference that the march on September 15 will start at 5 pm from Slavia Circle, and […]readmore

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The opening of the exhibition “Love” by artist Martin Stamenković marked one year since the opening of the Pride Info Centre in Belgrade. More than 15,000 people visited during that period, and helped join the fight for the rights of LGBT members who belong to the community. As Pride Centre Coordinator Jovan Ilić told […]readmore

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] In the city of Bialystok, in the east of Poland, the first Pride Parade was held. Unfortunately, the event did not take place without any incidents. About four thousand right-wingers and hooligans attacked the participants. They threatened the activists, insulted them, and even physically assaulted them. The slogans like “God, honour, homeland!”, “Bialystok free […]readmore

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Today marks the 24th anniversary of genocide in Srebrenica. In the genocide and in the area near Srebrenica, over 8,000 people were systematically killed, whereby people are still looking for thousands of remains. 8372 to be exact… In Potočari 33 people will be buried today. Among them, the youngest victim was just 16 years old. I hear this […]readmore

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Pride parade in Istanbul has been banned the fifth year in a row, and a peaceful gathering on the 30th of June near Taksim square was followed by excessive use of force by the police, firing rubber bullets and tear gas. This kind of behaviour towards the LGBT+ community is part of everyday life […]readmore

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Bengaluru – LGBTI job fair, organized for the first time in India, attracted more than 250 people looking for employment with companies such as Intel, Goldman Sachs and Uber.  The event in Bengaluru, in southern part of India, was organized after the Supreme Court of India overruled the 2018 law banning homosexuality, enabling companies […]readmore

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Bank of England chose mathematician Alan Turing, who cracked Nazi codes in World War II, to be the new face of the 50 pound note. Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney said today that Turing was “a giant on whose shoulders so many now stand.” Turing’s work in cracking Nazi’s communication code […]readmore

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] There are not a lot of intellectuals in Serbia who have uncompromisingly and clearly supported the LGBT+ community in Serbia for such a long time. In that small constellation Borka was always a star. To be of different sexual orientation or gender identity for her was never a question, but deprivation of human rights […]readmore