EuroPride organizers plan new parade route

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EuroPride organizers said on Friday that the pride parade would go down a new route and called the authorities to allow the event to go ahead as planned.

Organizers submitted a petition signed by 27,000 people calling President Aleksandar Vucic and Prime Minister Ana Brnabic to “enable EuroPride 2022 to go ahead as planned” along the new, shorter route, from the crossroads at the Serbian parliament to the nearby Tasmajdan park and stadium.

“We are insisting on EuroPride going ahead in the format we planned. There were no incidents in the past four days (of pride week),” organizer Goran Miletic said adding that concerts will be held at Tasmajdan instead of Kalemegdan fortress on Friday and Saturday “which means that we have made a lot of compromises already”.

“We have been pushed into a situation without any choice and we will get together despite the police ban,” Miletic said and added that this pride is completely different to earlier events.

Miletic said that the organizers submitted a new event report with the police for a new route and protest march. He said a new appeal would be filed with the Constitutional Court.

“The EuroPride March must go ahead tomorrow, with the promised full endorsement of the Prime Minister. We never give in to bullies. We stand tall, we walk proud,” European Pride Organisers Association (EPOA) President Kristine Garina said after the petition was submitted.


According to her, the petition stands for the basic decency and respect for human rights that should be protected by every self-respecting country”.

“Walk around Belgrade today and you can see happy, loving, peaceful LGBTI+ people who have come here to show support and solidarity. They bring no harm to Belgrade, to Serbia, or to the Western Balkans. They embody the progressive European future to which Serbia aspires,” she said.