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Belgrade Gay Pride Parade – Not Yet

September 20, 2009

Before I begin, just a quick not that I have heard of three separate cases where foreigners have been attacked in Belgrade and beaten up in the last three days, including one Frenchmen that’s in critical condition. It seems that the groups of ultra-right fascists are patrolling the city center targeting those that seem unusual [...]

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Mayor of Belgrade against Gay Pride

August 12, 2009

Asked to comment on the safety issues of forthcoming Belgrade Gay Pride Parade, which is scheduled for September 20th, and the anti-gay graffiti throughout the city these days, Mayor of Belgrade, mr Dragan Djilas gave the following bizzare statement:
“I say what I believe—maybe I was raised patriarchal—but sexual orientation is a personal thing, and [...]

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Marble Heads

March 16, 2009

Update on the traditional churches vs human rights law saga.
Some complaints by the churches have been implemented by the government, but the churches are still not satisfied. The article about free expression of one’s sexual orientation is really pissing them off.
Here’s a bit from what they have to say in a new written [...]

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Discriminate Thy Neighbour

March 12, 2009

Main topic of the past several days in Serbia (besides celebrity Big Brother and Eurosong contest, that is): the anti-discrimination law and the problem it created for the traditional religious organizations in Serbia – Serbian Orthodox Church, the Catholic Church, the Islamic Community of Serbia, the Evangelical Church, the Christian Reform Church, the Christian Evangelical [...]

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The Facebook Wars

December 14, 2008

Long time since we had a net2reality post here. I’ve been wanting to write one after the Croatian govt. caused all that fuss with the Facebook couple of weeks ago, but I figured it was covered enough by other medias.

However, there wasn’t so much talk about kids using the social media to promote nationalism, hate and fascism.

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The end of Eurovizija in Beograd

May 25, 2008

Three great play-by-play posts covering last night’s Eurosong contest: Nosemonkey, Douglas Muir of Fistfull of Euros and BBC’s Fiona Pryor. This sums it all up very well, even though thy don’t agree on all acounts. But the main thing is that the fun was there, the organization was great according to a couple of journalists [...]

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Dragan Markovic Palma – a man or a tree?

June 3, 2007

Ladies and gents, I present to you: Dragan Markovic Palma, head of Jagodina municipality and a pre-election coalition partner of our prime minister, Vojislav Kostunica.
Palma on culture
Question: who is your favorite singer? Translation follows.

DMP: My favorite singer is Ceca. Ceca is a singer who managed to gather most of her fans in one place – [...]

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Top Ten Distinctive Features of Serbian Homophobia

May 21, 2007

I wanted to write about this couple of days ago, on the international day against homophobia, but i guess it would have been too predictable, like writing about women rights on 8th of March. Besides, it’s always a burning subject, not just here in Serbia but everywhere in the world where GLB and other sexual [...]

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Cultural Melting Pot

May 4, 2007

Probably you remember the articles about Ganja March, Stormfront forum, the hooligans and the internet fights. Instead of a recapitlation on those articles, it seems that i will rather have the unfortunate opportunity to see all those cultural groups at the same place tomorrow – Republic square, Saturday 5th of May, 15:00. How come?
Well, it [...]

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Safety, racism and homophobia in Belgrade

March 10, 2006

Question: Hi, i am planning to do work experience here but i have heard a few concerns about safety here. So i would like to know a bit about the ethnic diversity and if there is a much racism or homophobia.
Answer: You can read in one of my previous posts about general safety in [...]

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