Zagreb Pride
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Zagreb Pride is the annual pride march and LGBTIQ demonstration of Zagreb
, Croatia
, which first took place in 2002 and now occurs in June (the Saturday closest to June 27) of each year, lasting for a few days. Zagreb Pride is the first successful pride march held in the Balkans
, just a year after a bloody showdown at 2001 Belgrade Pride. Zagreb Pride members claim their work is inspired by the Stonewall Riots
and Gay Liberation Front
.
It is organized by volunteer-based and grass-roots Zagreb Pride Organizing Committee that is formed in January of the new Pride year. Pride Committee is a group of individuals and it is logistically supported by Zagreb Pride Organization founded in 2008 as a non-governmental organization. Pride receives funding from the City of Zagreb, as well as a number of international human rights organizations and embassies.
Zagreb Pride Organization is a member of InterPride, EPOA
, IGLYO
, ILGA-Europe
and in 2010, together with Lesbian Organization Rijeka and Queer Zagreb, it was the founding member of Croatian first national LGBT association - Center for LGBT Equality.
The event usually consists of a Pride March through the city center with banners, flags, and shouted slogans, followed by a gathering at Zrinjevac Park where speeches are given by LGBTIQ activists. In some years "pre-program" events are held in the days leading up to the march. Each year the organizers adopt a theme and a collection of principles and values called the "Pride platform", which is designed to be reflected in the march, speeches, and publicity for the event.
Zagreb Pride, Ljubljana Pride and Belgrade Pride are each other's "sister prides".
Sometime around 9am just before the gathering unknown attackers beat up Mario Kovač, Croatian theatre director, who was supposed to be Pride’s master of ceremonies, at Kvaternik Square and took his cell phone. As the gathering progressed, homophobic opponents to Gay Pride Zagreb rallied at the western side of Zrinjevac Park, yelling "Go to Serbia
", "Kill the Serb", "Fags to concentration camps", "Heil Hitler", "Sieg heil", "Die", and "We are Aryan", and then invoked the name of Franjo Tuđman. Some of them tried to jump over the iron fence put up at Zrinjevac Park, but were prevented from doing so. Throughout the gathering the police used video cameras to record it. As the gathering was coming to an end, tear gas was thrown at the Pride crowd assembled at Zrinjevac.
Most citizens managed to leave the gathering peacefully, and security and police vehicles took the speakers to safety. However, it was then that the bullies started rounding the city center and attacking participants of the gathering, as well as passers-by. During and after the gathering, some twenty people were attacked and injured. The police brought in 27 disorderly persons (11 as a preventive measure, 10 for disorderly conduct, and 6 in order to establish their identity).
Several skinheads who threatened them and cursed them, which led to another police intervention, met the organizers of the event, who after the gathering attempted to take the props to a van that was waiting for them in Đorđić Street. The organizers left the gathering with the help of the police.
Following the gathering, approximately twenty citizens were beaten up in about ten incidents. Net club Mama was attacked. According to Teodor Celakoski, manager of the Mama club, seven skinheads stormed into the club, receiving instructions on where to go via the cell phone. Upon their arrival, they started to harass people, asking them who had gone to the Gay Pride. They randomly chose three people and beat them up. After the gathering, nine attackers attacked the guests of Močvara in Tomić Street. Most commentators agree that had it not been for the police cordon, the gathering would have ended in an explosion of violence.
in 2001, that is also a popular slogan of Croatian LGBTIQ movement, and called for new gay and lesbian rights legislation.
.
Discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender has been forbidden since 2003 by the Labour Legislation, Gender Equality Law as well as in the Law of Science and Higher Studies. (For example, it is forbidden to discriminate against homosexuals applying for higher studies at universities.) According to the Croatian Penal Code, it is also forbidden to produce, sell, import/export or by Internet propagate homophobic material to the wider public. People who do so can be sentenced up to a year in prison. It is also forbidden to present homosexuals and homosexuality in media in a degrading or discriminatory way.
New legislation now provides gay couples the same legal rights as their unmarried straight counterparts. It gives same sex partners of at least three years the same rights as unmarried cohabiting opposite sex partners, including the right to legal regulation of property and mutual responsibility for financial support.
Victims of LGBTIQ violence and discrimination became more willing to report incidents to police and advocacy organizations.
and intolerance of the Catholic Church and other denominations in Croatia. Another special focus was transphobia
within gay and lesbian community, as well as in the rest of society. Organizers stood for same-sex marriages and adoption. The establishment of advisory centers was announced, to work on the prevention of AIDS; the participants promoted the use of condoms to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
and one liberal independent member. It was the first Pride not organized by its Pride Committee.
At the beginning of June, most prominent LGBTIQ group Iskorak ("Coming out", also can be translated as "Step forward"), which has been that year's logistic support, announced that its activists would not organize Pride before the summer break, also stating that the Pride march was irritating citizens of Zagreb by blocking the public transport for a few minutes, and that Pride was at that time useless to the LGBTIQ community in Croatia. They proposed that a concert with "big names" outside of city center would be more appropriate, but it was never organised. Instead Iskorak's Pride project was replaced with the Coming Out project.
With just a few weeks of preparations and about US$1,500, an informal and until that day unknown feminist group Epikriza organized a small march in July with about 100 people and without any program. The group got media support and advices from former Pride organizers not involved with Iskorak, and logistical and financial support by Kontra and Center for peace studies.
in Croatia
and other Eastern European states, to promote LGBTIQ rights in the region, and to encourage organization of Pride events in areas lacking them. This was also fifth Croatia
n and fifth Zagreb
pride.
The international event was held in Zagreb, June 22–26, 2006, and brought together representatives of those Eastern European and Southeastern European countries where the sociopolitical climate is not ripe for the organization of Prides, or where such events are expressly forbidden by the authorities. From 13 countries (including representatives from Kosovo
), that participated, only Poland
, Slovenia
, Croatia
, Romania
and Latvia
have been organizing Prides, and Bosnia and Herzegovina
, Macedonia
, Bulgaria
, Albania
, Slovakia
and Lithuania
have never had Prides before. The attempt to organize such an event in Belgrade
, Serbia
in 2001, ended in a bloody showdown between the police and the counter-protesters, with the participants heavily beaten up
This Pride event is not only based on regional solidarity but is also jointly organized on the principles of non-violence and human rights standards.
Slogans:
Banners:
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...
, Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
, which first took place in 2002 and now occurs in June (the Saturday closest to June 27) of each year, lasting for a few days. Zagreb Pride is the first successful pride march held in the Balkans
Balkans
The Balkans is a geopolitical and cultural region of southeastern Europe...
, just a year after a bloody showdown at 2001 Belgrade Pride. Zagreb Pride members claim their work is inspired by the Stonewall Riots
Stonewall riots
The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City...
and Gay Liberation Front
Gay Liberation Front
Gay Liberation Front was the name of a number of Gay Liberation groups, the first of which was formed in New York City in 1969, immediately after the Stonewall riots, in which police clashed with gay demonstrators.-The Gay Liberation Front:...
.
It is organized by volunteer-based and grass-roots Zagreb Pride Organizing Committee that is formed in January of the new Pride year. Pride Committee is a group of individuals and it is logistically supported by Zagreb Pride Organization founded in 2008 as a non-governmental organization. Pride receives funding from the City of Zagreb, as well as a number of international human rights organizations and embassies.
Zagreb Pride Organization is a member of InterPride, EPOA
Europride
Europride is a pan-European international event dedicated to LGBT pride, hosted by a different European city each year. The host city is usually one with an established gay pride event or a significant LGBT community....
, IGLYO
International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Youth and Student Organisation
IGLYO stands for the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Youth and Student Organisation. It was created in 1984 as a reaction to the need for better cooperation among regional, local and national LGBTQ youth and student organisations. As a peer-led membership-based network...
, ILGA-Europe
ILGA-Europe
ILGA-Europe is the European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association.ILGA-Europe is a non-governmental umbrella organisation which represents its members, principally organisations of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons, at the European level.Its...
and in 2010, together with Lesbian Organization Rijeka and Queer Zagreb, it was the founding member of Croatian first national LGBT association - Center for LGBT Equality.
The event usually consists of a Pride March through the city center with banners, flags, and shouted slogans, followed by a gathering at Zrinjevac Park where speeches are given by LGBTIQ activists. In some years "pre-program" events are held in the days leading up to the march. Each year the organizers adopt a theme and a collection of principles and values called the "Pride platform", which is designed to be reflected in the march, speeches, and publicity for the event.
Zagreb Pride, Ljubljana Pride and Belgrade Pride are each other's "sister prides".
Violence at first Zagreb Pride
29 June 2002, the first Pride parade of sexual and gender minorities, was held in Zagreb’s park Zrinjevac. Gay Pride Zagreb 2002 was entitled "Iskorak KONTRA predrasuda" (Coming out against prejudice). Approximately 300 individuals participated in the 2002 Pride event in Zagreb, including top state officials.Sometime around 9am just before the gathering unknown attackers beat up Mario Kovač, Croatian theatre director, who was supposed to be Pride’s master of ceremonies, at Kvaternik Square and took his cell phone. As the gathering progressed, homophobic opponents to Gay Pride Zagreb rallied at the western side of Zrinjevac Park, yelling "Go to Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
", "Kill the Serb", "Fags to concentration camps", "Heil Hitler", "Sieg heil", "Die", and "We are Aryan", and then invoked the name of Franjo Tuđman. Some of them tried to jump over the iron fence put up at Zrinjevac Park, but were prevented from doing so. Throughout the gathering the police used video cameras to record it. As the gathering was coming to an end, tear gas was thrown at the Pride crowd assembled at Zrinjevac.
Most citizens managed to leave the gathering peacefully, and security and police vehicles took the speakers to safety. However, it was then that the bullies started rounding the city center and attacking participants of the gathering, as well as passers-by. During and after the gathering, some twenty people were attacked and injured. The police brought in 27 disorderly persons (11 as a preventive measure, 10 for disorderly conduct, and 6 in order to establish their identity).
Several skinheads who threatened them and cursed them, which led to another police intervention, met the organizers of the event, who after the gathering attempted to take the props to a van that was waiting for them in Đorđić Street. The organizers left the gathering with the help of the police.
Following the gathering, approximately twenty citizens were beaten up in about ten incidents. Net club Mama was attacked. According to Teodor Celakoski, manager of the Mama club, seven skinheads stormed into the club, receiving instructions on where to go via the cell phone. Upon their arrival, they started to harass people, asking them who had gone to the Gay Pride. They randomly chose three people and beat them up. After the gathering, nine attackers attacked the guests of Močvara in Tomić Street. Most commentators agree that had it not been for the police cordon, the gathering would have ended in an explosion of violence.
Second Zagreb Pride
Between 200 and 300 participants of the Zagreb Pride gay parade gathered on Zrinjevac again and proceeded, with stronger police protection than the first year. The participants in the parade yelled "Gay is OK" (that is the most famous Croatian and Serbian Pride slogan, something like "We're here we're queer..." in the US) and "Love is Love" - the title of TV gay rights advertising campaign that was banned by Croatian RadiotelevisionCroatian Radiotelevision
Croatian Radiotelevision is a Croatian public broadcasting company. It operates several radio and television channels, over a domestic transmitter network as well as satellite...
in 2001, that is also a popular slogan of Croatian LGBTIQ movement, and called for new gay and lesbian rights legislation.
Political impact
After the second Pride event in Zagreb, anti-discrimination provisions were incorporated into the nation's laws (Penal Code, Gender Equality Law, Law of Science and Higher Studies, Media Law, Law of Same-sex Relationships, Labour Code). See Gay rights in CroatiaGay rights in Croatia
Lesbian, gay bisexual, and transgender persons in Croatia may face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. Both male and female same-sex sexual activity are legal in Croatia, but households headed by same-gender couples are not eligible for the same legal protections available to...
.
Discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender has been forbidden since 2003 by the Labour Legislation, Gender Equality Law as well as in the Law of Science and Higher Studies. (For example, it is forbidden to discriminate against homosexuals applying for higher studies at universities.) According to the Croatian Penal Code, it is also forbidden to produce, sell, import/export or by Internet propagate homophobic material to the wider public. People who do so can be sentenced up to a year in prison. It is also forbidden to present homosexuals and homosexuality in media in a degrading or discriminatory way.
New legislation now provides gay couples the same legal rights as their unmarried straight counterparts. It gives same sex partners of at least three years the same rights as unmarried cohabiting opposite sex partners, including the right to legal regulation of property and mutual responsibility for financial support.
Victims of LGBTIQ violence and discrimination became more willing to report incidents to police and advocacy organizations.
Third Zagreb Pride
Again under heavy police protection, in 2004 the Pride parade marched through the streets of downtown Zagreb. The parade lasted about half an hour, after which the participants spoke against homophobiaHomophobia
Homophobia is a term used to refer to a range of negative attitudes and feelings towards lesbian, gay and in some cases bisexual, transgender people and behavior, although these are usually covered under other terms such as biphobia and transphobia. Definitions refer to irrational fear, with the...
and intolerance of the Catholic Church and other denominations in Croatia. Another special focus was transphobia
Transphobia
Transphobia is a range of negative attitudes and feelings towards transsexualism and transsexual or transgender people, based on the expression of their internal gender...
within gay and lesbian community, as well as in the rest of society. Organizers stood for same-sex marriages and adoption. The establishment of advisory centers was announced, to work on the prevention of AIDS; the participants promoted the use of condoms to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
Fourth Zagreb Pride
The fourth Pride in 2005 was organized by a feminist group Epikriza, and it promoted a registered partnership law proposed by two Sabor members, one of Social Democratic PartySocial Democratic Party of Croatia
Social Democratic Party of Croatia , commonly referred to in Croatia as simply Social Democratic Party , is the largest centre-left political party in Croatia...
and one liberal independent member. It was the first Pride not organized by its Pride Committee.
At the beginning of June, most prominent LGBTIQ group Iskorak ("Coming out", also can be translated as "Step forward"), which has been that year's logistic support, announced that its activists would not organize Pride before the summer break, also stating that the Pride march was irritating citizens of Zagreb by blocking the public transport for a few minutes, and that Pride was at that time useless to the LGBTIQ community in Croatia. They proposed that a concert with "big names" outside of city center would be more appropriate, but it was never organised. Instead Iskorak's Pride project was replaced with the Coming Out project.
With just a few weeks of preparations and about US$1,500, an informal and until that day unknown feminist group Epikriza organized a small march in July with about 100 people and without any program. The group got media support and advices from former Pride organizers not involved with Iskorak, and logistical and financial support by Kontra and Center for peace studies.
First Eastern European Pride
The First Eastern European Pride, called The Internationale Pride, was organized to affirm the right to freedom of assemblyFreedom of assembly
Freedom of assembly, sometimes used interchangeably with the freedom of association, is the individual right to come together and collectively express, promote, pursue and defend common interests...
in Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
and other Eastern European states, to promote LGBTIQ rights in the region, and to encourage organization of Pride events in areas lacking them. This was also fifth Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
n and fifth Zagreb
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...
pride.
The international event was held in Zagreb, June 22–26, 2006, and brought together representatives of those Eastern European and Southeastern European countries where the sociopolitical climate is not ripe for the organization of Prides, or where such events are expressly forbidden by the authorities. From 13 countries (including representatives from Kosovo
Kosovo
Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...
), that participated, only Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
, Slovenia
Slovenia
Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
, Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
, Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
and Latvia
Latvia
Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...
have been organizing Prides, and Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...
, Macedonia
Republic of Macedonia
Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...
, Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
, Albania
Albania
Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...
, Slovakia
Slovakia
The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...
and Lithuania
Lithuania
Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...
have never had Prides before. The attempt to organize such an event in Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
, Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
in 2001, ended in a bloody showdown between the police and the counter-protesters, with the participants heavily beaten up
This Pride event is not only based on regional solidarity but is also jointly organized on the principles of non-violence and human rights standards.
Popular slogans and banners
(translated into English)Slogans:
- Love is love - the most significant slogan of Croatian LGBTIQ movement
- Gay is okay - the most famous Croatian and Serbian Pride slogan
- JesusJesusJesus of Nazareth , commonly referred to as Jesus Christ or simply as Jesus or Christ, is the central figure of Christianity...
loves me - yelled at third Zagreb Pride
Banners:
- Come out of the silence
- Let's be brave
- Thanks to the goddess that I'm a lesbian
- I'm a proud fag
- I'm sick of explaining
- Transgender is pretty
- Homophobes are people too
- No sex before registration
- Homophobia is illness
- Sex education in schools!
- Fags and dykes against pedophilia
- I love who I want
- Long live perversity
- No to NATO
- Nothing is going to spoil this day for me
- I love Carla Del PonteCarla Del PonteCarla Del Ponte is a former Chief Prosecutor of two United Nations international criminal law tribunals. A former Swiss attorney general, she was appointed prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in August...
(two-way interpretation - identification with the "anti-icon" of far rightFar rightFar-right, extreme right, hard right, radical right, and ultra-right are terms used to discuss the qualitative or quantitative position a group or person occupies within right-wing politics. Far-right politics may involve anti-immigration and anti-integration stances towards groups that are...
wing population; or author's admiration of Carla's gender-transgressive looks)
List of Zagreb Prides and supporters
- Gay Pride Zagreb 2002 - "Coming out Against Prejudice"
- Pride March: June 29 2002
- Theme: Stepping out against prejudice and homophobia.
- Organizers: Gay Pride Committee
- Supporters: Iskorak (Group for the rights of sexual and gender minorities) and Lesbian group Kontra
- Zagreb Pride 2003 - "Proud Again"
- Pride March: June 28 2003
- Theme: Demanding for the new legislation
- Organizers: Zagreb Pride Committee
- Supporters: Iskorak and Kontra
- Zagreb Pride 2004 - "Vive la difference!"
- Pride March: June 16 2004
- Theme: Transphobia; homophobia and intolerance of the Catholic Church
- Organizers: Zagreb Pride Committee
- Supporters: Kontra
- Zagreb Pride 2005 - "Proud together!"
- Pride March: July 10 2005
- Theme: Registered partnership law
- Organizers: feminist group Epikriza
- Supporters: Kontra and Center for Peace Studies (Centar za mirovne studije)
- The Internationale Pride 2006, Zagreb - "To Live Freely"
- Pride March: June 25 2006
- Theme: Importance of Pride Marches, freedom of public assembly, freedom of speech, freedom of expression, right to participation, right to information, and right to culture.
- Organizers: Regional Pride Committee
- Supporters: Kontra (CroatiaCroatiaCroatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
), Queer Zagreb (Croatia), Miks (Croatia), Cultural Street Gay Action - kugA (Croatia), Center for Peace Studies (Croatia), Women’s Room (Croatia), Inqueerzicija (Croatia), DIH (SloveniaSloveniaSlovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
), Organization Q (Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...
), Queer BelgradeBelgradeBelgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
(SerbiaSerbiaSerbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
), Labris (Serbia), Spy (Serbia), Duga (Serbia), Gay straight alliance (Serbia), Gayten LGBT (Serbia), NLO (Serbia), Lambda (Serbia), ACT women (Serbia), Masso (MacedoniaRepublic of MacedoniaMacedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...
), QESh (KosovoKosovoKosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...
), GISh (AlbaniaAlbaniaAlbania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...
), Campaign Against HomophobiaCampaign Against HomophobiaCampaign Against Homophobia is a Polish LGBT organisation, which aims to promote legal and social equality for people outside the heteronorm. It was founded in Warsaw in September 2001 and since it has grown to the biggest NGO of this kind in Poland...
(PolandPolandPoland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
), Altera (SlovakiaSlovakiaThe Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...
), ACCEPTACCEPTACCEPT is the primary nongovernmental organization advocating for the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people in Romania. It is based in Bucharest and also acts as the Romanian representative at ILGA-Europe...
(RomaniaRomaniaRomania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
), Queer Bulgaria (BulgariaBulgariaBulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
), Lithuanian Gay League (LithuaniaLithuaniaLithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...
), Mozaīka (LatviaLatviaLatvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...
), Southeastern European QueerQueerQueer is an umbrella term for sexual minorities that are not heterosexual, heteronormative, or gender-binary. In the context of Western identity politics the term also acts as a label setting queer-identifying people apart from discourse, ideologies, and lifestyles that typify mainstream LGBT ...
Network (SEEQ)
- Zagreb Pride 2007- "Everyone to the Pride!"
- Time: July 7 2007
- Theme: LGBT Visibility
- Organizers: Zagreb Pride Committee
- Supporters: Queer Zagreb (Zagreb), inQueerzicija – nova gej scena (Zagreb), Queerilica (Zagreb), Iskorak – Centar za prava seksualnih irodnih manjina (Zagreb), LORI (RijekaRijekaRijeka is the principal seaport and the third largest city in Croatia . It is located on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea and has a population of 128,735 inhabitants...
), Inicijativa Queer (ZadarZadarZadar is a city in Croatia on the Adriatic Sea. It is the centre of Zadar county and the wider northern Dalmatian region. Population of the city is 75,082 citizens...
), Ženska soba (Zagreb), kugA - Kulturno-Ulična Gej Akcija (Zagreb), Miks (Zagreb), Center for Peace Studies - CMS(Zagreb), ZaMir (Zagreb), CESI (Zagreb), Youth Network Croatia, Direct Action Zadar (Zadar), Neo-AFŽWomen's Antifascist FrontWomen's Antifascist Front may apply to any of the following feminist movements associated with Yugoslav partisans during World War II:*Women's Antifascist Front of Bosnia and Herzegovina*Women's Antifascist Front of Croatia...
(Zagreb), Multimedial Institute (Zagreb), Labin Art Express (LabinLabinLabin is a town in Istria, Croatia, with a town population of 6,884 and 11,703 in the greater municipality ....
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2007, Ljubljana Pride 2007, Regenbogenparade 2007 Vienna, Budapest Pride 2007. - Organizers also asked public figures to list themselves as Zagreb Pride supporters. Around 150 persons signed for support, including President Stipe Mesić, MPMember of ParliamentA Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
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and Slavenka DrakulićSlavenka DrakulicSlavenka Drakulić is a noted Croatian writer and publicist who currently lives in Sweden.Slavenka Drakulić was born in Rijeka, PR Croatia, on July 4, 1949. She graduated in comparative literature and sociology from the University in Zagreb in 1976...
, pop group E.N.I.E.N.I.E.N.I. is Croatian pop band from Rijeka .Like the Rijeka group Put four years earlier, E.N.I. was created out of Putokazi in order to compete in at the Eurovision Song Contest 1997 with the song Probudi Me....
, peace activist Vesna TeršeličVesna TeršelicVesna Teršelič is a peace activist who founded the Anti-War Campaign of Croatia. In 1998, she was joint recipient of the Right Livelihood Award along with Katarina Kruhonja of the Centre for Peace, Non-violence and Human Rights, Osijek....
, film directors Dalibor MatanićDalibor MatanicDalibor Matanić is an acclaimed Croatian screenwriter and film director.His most well-known film is the 2002 feature Fine Dead Girls which won the Special Jury Prize at the 2003 Sochi film festival.-Filmography:...
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- Zagreb Pride 2008- "You Have the Courage"
- Pride March: June 28 2008.
- Theme: Strength of Collectiveness
- Political supporters: President of the Republic Stipe Mesić, SDPSocial Democratic Party of CroatiaSocial Democratic Party of Croatia , commonly referred to in Croatia as simply Social Democratic Party , is the largest centre-left political party in Croatia...
, HNSCroatian People's Party-Liberal DemocratsThe Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats is a center-left liberal party in Croatia.HNS currently has 5 representatives in the Croatian Parliament and are the fourth largest political party in Croatia and fourth in the number of representatives if the coalitions are included...
, HSLSCroatian Social Liberal PartyCroatian Social Liberal Party or HSLS is a conservative liberal political party in Croatia. The party is a member of Liberal International and the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party. Its current president is Darinko Kosor, elected to that post in November 2009.-Chronology:The HSLS was...
, Green List of CroatiaGreen List of CroatiaThe Green List is a green political party in Croatia. It was created in 2005 for local elections for Zagreb Assembly. It was firstly named Greens for Zagreb . At the local elections in May 2009, the party won 14 mandates in Zagreb's city quarters and five in other local councils...
, Left of CroatiaLeft of CroatiaThe Left of Croatia is a marginal leftist Croatian political party with no parliamentary representation.-Origins:Left of Croatia was created in 2007 by the merger of several parties:* Vladimir Bebić – Third Block* Green Left of Croatia...
, Jeanine Hennis-PlasschaertJeanine Hennis-PlasschaertJeanine Antoinette Hennis-Plasschaert is a Dutch politician and former management consultant and civil servant. As a member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy she has been an MP since June 17, 2010. She previously served as an MEP since July 20, 2004...
and Ulrike LunacekUlrike LunacekUlrike Lunacek is an Austrian politician. She used to be a Member of Parliament of the National Council of Austria, and since 2009 is a Member of the European Parliament for Austria....
- Zagreb Pride 2009 for the Open cityOpen cityIn war, in the event of the imminent capture of a city, the government/military structure of the nation that controls the city will sometimes declare it an open city, thus announcing that they have abandoned all defensive efforts....
- "Participate!"- Pride March: June 13 2009.
- Theme: City of Zagreb
- Organizers: Zagreb Pride Committee
- Zagreb Pride 2010- "Croatia Can Swallow It"
- Pride March: June 19 2010.
- Theme: Freedom of sexual expression and the variety of sexual practices
- Organizers: Zagreb Pride Committee
- Zagreb Pride 2011- "The Future is Also Ours!"
- Pride March: June 18 2011.
- Organizers: Zagreb Pride Committee