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"We started with the idea that we need a safe space and that we could do something for the community that's open weekly, to have cultural activities and be activists through a cultural perspective," said Lorelei Grigorita, Queer Café's 24-year-old administrator.

This year's Belgrade Pride, scheduled for Saturday, takes place amid calls for Serbia to adopt a same-sex union law and improve the rights of the LGBT community generally.

Given interwar Poland is a model that PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski often refers to when he speaks about his party's purported restoration of the nation's pride after decades of Nazism, communism and liberalism, this historical fact might give him some pause for thought.

Experts say there are signs in Greece of growing 'anti-gender' activism against the rights of women and the LGBT community.

Ljubljana – The LGBTIQ+ community staged the Pride Parade in Ljubljana on Saturday afternoon under the slogan Resist the Oppression as a culmination of a week-long festival, demanding freedom, equality and unconditional respect for human rights of LGBTIQ+ persons. The annual parade was for the first time accompanied by the Balkan Trans Intersex March.

The second annual Pride Ride, a protest by cyclists in support of LGBT rights, was held in Zagreb on Saturday.

The cycle rally began in a park in the Tresnjevka district in the western part of the city and moved through the streets of Zagreb before returning to the park.

Ljubljana – The 22nd international feminist and queer festival Red Dawns will open on Friday with an exhibition of posters from Polish women’s strike entitled To jest wojna. All events will be held online.

Next door is Anahit, a small performance venue opened 18 months ago by Ziba's owner, Deniz Deniz, a queer, 20-year veteran of the music and entertainment industry.

Both Ziba and Anahit were hits, the latter quickly establishing itself as a popular home for drag performances, aid campaigns and LGBT parties.

Art platform the Queer Archive is organizing its first festival to be held at various locations in the city of Athens from February 13 to 16. The program includes exhibitions, performances, talks, workshops, parties and film screenings, all by or revolving around gender minorities and the queer community.

In the context of International Museum Day, Atopos CVC and the neo-situationist duo FYTA will present an installation/performance/symposium titled "Queer: Unqueer" at the Atopos venue in Metaxourgeio, central Athens, on Thursday, May 18. During the first part of the event the audience will be invited by FYTA to comment on the "queerness" of various concepts presented on a large board.