Minsk Pride

The Belgrade gay parade was held on Sunday under the slogan "Love Changes the World" without any incidents.

Organizers said this was a historic Belgrade Pride parade as it moved from Slavija Square "to the heart of Belgrade."

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.

Organizers of the Belgrade's Pride Parade 2015 said they were satisfied with the "atmosphere" ahead of the gay march scheduled at noon on Sunday and they believe the event will be peaceful although Pride Parade has a turbulent history in Serbia.

Under the motto "Come out into a safer Split!," an LGBT Pride parade is set to take place on Saturday in the Croatian coastal city of Split.

The fifth annual Split Pride, organised by the local LGBT association Rispet, decided on the motto in order to shed light on the violence to which the LGBT community in Split is exposed on a daily basis.

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.

Gay activists were preparing to march through the streets of Podgorica today, with some saying they felt optimistic that this year's Gay Pride would be more peaceful than last year's.

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