LGBT Pride March

Police detained some 44 people at an LGBT Pride march in Istanbul's Taksim Square on June 25, which was previously banned by the Istanbul's Governor's Office for the third consecutive year.

Istanbul Governor's Office has announced that it will not allow the LGBT Pride March, which was set to take place on June 25 in Istanbul's Taksim Square, citing security concerns and public order.

The Alperen Hearths, an ultranationalist youth organization linked to right-wing nationalist Great Union Party (BBP), has threatened the LGBT Pride March set to take place on June 25 in Istanbul's Taksim Square, vowing to prevent the march from taking place. 

BELGRADE - Gay pride marchers have rallied in central Belgrade amid a massive turnout of riot police and security officials aimed at preventing unrest that had marred previous rallies.

BELGRADE - A pride parade will take place in Belgrade on September 18,  Boban Stojanovic from the Pride Parade Organizing Committee said on Tuesday.

At a conference on homophobia in Serbia held on the occasion of International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, he described as important the fact that the gay pride march would go through downtown streets.

Montenegrin NGOs LGBT Forum Progress and Hiperion announced on Sunday that the first ever Gay Pride march in the town of Niksic will be held in September under the slogan "Stop fascism - freedom to the people". 

LGBT organizations in Montenegro have expressed "deep disappointment" after the police banned a planned gay pride march in the town of Niksic.

Citing threats of violence and possible attacks by hooligans, police said that the "Academic Walk of Pride", which was scheduled for Friday, could not go ahead.

The Montenegrin capital will host its second Gay Pride parade this Sunday, in spite of the violent attacks on activists that marred the first-ever parade in the country last year.

Gay activists will walk the same route as last year, after police estimated that the 1,400-foot-long trail in the centre of Podgorica was easiest to secure.