Belgrade Pride Protest March Scheduled for September 5

Belgrade Pride announces this year’s Pride Week and Pride Protest March, which will traditionally take place at the beginning of September.

Pride Week will run from Monday, August 31, to Sunday, September 6, while the Pride Protest March is scheduled for Saturday, September 5.

As in previous years, Pride Week will be filled with a variety of programs: from exhibitions and theater performances to lectures and panel discussions, as well as sports activities and parties, aiming to provide content that is accessible and engaging both for the LGBTI+ community and the wider public.

The Pride March, as the protest and activist day of Pride Week and its most important segment, represents an opportunity for LGBTI+ individuals to publicly express dissatisfaction with the absence of laws regulating our lives, and most importantly regarding discrimination and violence, which remain widespread in our society and far too often go unpunished. At the same time, Pride is an act of visibility and courage, an opportunity to exist and protest in public spaces, while also sending a message of solidarity to LGBTI+ people who cannot live freely and authentically, as we also gather on their behalf.

Belgrade Pride invites all LGBTI+ individuals, allies of our community, and fellow citizens to join us for Pride Week, and especially for the Pride Protest on September 5, in a shared fight for equality, dignity, and freedom for all, because only together can we build spaces of resistance and a society where there is room for all of us.