Gay Lesbian Info Centre

A Serbian rights organisation, the Gay Lesbian Info Centre, GLIC, has said that it will sue the Serbian Ministry of Culture for discrimination, after it ordered the removal of a statue showing Donald Duck pressing against Micky Mouse's groin from the country's culture centre in Paris.

Under the slogan "Say Eight" ("Reci osam"), the eighth annual Merlinka LGBT film festival opens on December 8 and runs until December 14 at Belgrade's Dom Omladine.

Audiences will have the opportunity to see 41 short films, six feature films and ten documentaries, some of which premiered at well-known festivals such as Sundance, Berlinale and Tribeca.

The Gay Lesbian Info Center (GLIC) NGO has announced that the security provided during Belgrade Pride Parade in October cost citizens of Serbia EUR 305,000.