Gay activists march through Serb capital behind police lines
Serbian gay right activists walked with their first transparently lesbian Prime Minister through the boulevards of Belgrade on Sunday, ensured by police in revolt outfit as a helicopter flew low overhead.
Senior government authorities joined many revelers on the Belgrade Pride parade an occasion campaigners said was a trial of the moderate Balkan states rights record as it looks to join the European Union.
Seven years prior, hardline patriots assaulted individuals at the walk, inciting specialists to scratch off it until 2015.
The European Union said in 2016 Serbia expected to accomplish more to help minorities including Roma, impaired, lesbian, gay, promiscuous and transgender individuals.
"Serbia regards assorted variety, my message is that the Serbian government is here for the majority of its subjects ... the general population have the privilege to walk," Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said as marchers waved rainbow hails and blew shrieks around her.
Co-coordinator Goran Miletic told journalists human rights had enhanced over the previous decade. "Regardless we need to work significantly more to improve it even," he said.
Homophobia stays broad in Serbia and different social orders in the Balkans; the leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church a week ago contrasted homosexuality with pedophilia and inbreeding.
President Aleksandar Vucic, a previous ultranationalist who has rebranded himself as a genius Western reformer, said for the current week he had "no goal" of joining the walk.
Senior government authorities joined many revelers on the Belgrade Pride parade an occasion campaigners said was a trial of the moderate Balkan states rights record as it looks to join the European Union.
Seven years prior, hardline patriots assaulted individuals at the walk, inciting specialists to scratch off it until 2015.
The European Union said in 2016 Serbia expected to accomplish more to help minorities including Roma, impaired, lesbian, gay, promiscuous and transgender individuals.
"Serbia regards assorted variety, my message is that the Serbian government is here for the majority of its subjects ... the general population have the privilege to walk," Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said as marchers waved rainbow hails and blew shrieks around her.
Co-coordinator Goran Miletic told journalists human rights had enhanced over the previous decade. "Regardless we need to work significantly more to improve it even," he said.
Homophobia stays broad in Serbia and different social orders in the Balkans; the leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church a week ago contrasted homosexuality with pedophilia and inbreeding.
President Aleksandar Vucic, a previous ultranationalist who has rebranded himself as a genius Western reformer, said for the current week he had "no goal" of joining the walk.
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