EuroPride

Ljubljana – LGBT organisations in Slovenia expressed their disappointment and concerns over Serbia’s recent decision to ban the EuroPride march that was supposed to take place in Belgrade this year. This shows the negligence by the current Serbian government in its treatment of social minorities, they said.

Right-wing groups urge people to prepare for protests this Saturday, saying they fear the EuroPride march may still take place - despite Tuesday's police ban.

Organisers of EuroPride 2022 in Belgrade say they will challenge the ban in court and that Saturday's planned walk will go ahead.

As we were told, the route that the walk was supposed to take was banned.
Europride coordinator Goran Mileti commented on the news for B92.net and explained that "the walk is not banned, only the route has to change".
"Only the walking route is banned, not the walk. They cannot ban the walk. We will walk," Mileti told us, and announced the next steps.

The traditional walk, which the organizers insist on holding, is scheduled for Saturday, September 17, starting at 5 p.m. in front of the Serbian Parliament.

The conservative movement Nai gives full support to the state authorities of the Republic of Serbia in the decision not to hold "Europride" scheduled for November 17 in Belgrade.

Marko Mihailovic, an activist and organizer of Belgrade's EuroPride, said the event will go ahead despite an apparent presidential call to ban it.

A protest of many thousands in Belgrade - people, most of them strongly religious and those with an extreme right-wing orientation, joined a procession against the holding of European pride in the Serbian capital.