Pride Concert? This Year – Protest

The Pride concert has been an essential part of Belgrade Pride for years. However, this year we cannot turn a blind eye to what is happening in our country. While students and citizens are facing police brutality, while we have political prisoners and young activists on wanted lists, and while institutions fail to respond to the demands of students and the public - Pride refuses to contribute to a facade of normalcy.

That’s why this year, instead of music, we will make noise during the march. The program in Pride Park will be adapted, and the traditional concert will be replaced with speeches by LGBTI+ activists, students, and victims of police brutality. There will also be an address and performance by the Queen of Pride, a choir, and a local queer DJ.

This year, more than ever, Pride is a PROTEST. On September 6, we will take to the streets and make noise - for justice, for institutions, for all rainbow families invisible before the law, for all trans and non-binary people who have endured systemic and societal discrimination for years, and for the students - many of whom are queer - who have been fighting for a better future through nine months of university blockades.

Queer struggle has always been a fight for a more just, more equal, and more solidary society, and Pride has always stood for these values. This year too, our chosen family is out in the streets - for a future that belongs to all of us!