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UPDATE: Participant in Belgrade LGBT Conference in Critical Condition After...
A participant at a conference on LGBT issues in Serbia is in critical condition at a Belgrade hospital today after a brutal attack left him so injured he required emergency brain surgery. Alex Cooper,...
View ArticleCommon Resolution Against Violence and Hate Crimes
The participants slated to attend the conference scheduled for this weekend, “The future belongs to us: LGBT rights on the road to the European Union” have issued a resolution against violence and hate...
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Serbia is Russia Lite: Inside the Anti-Gay Hooligan State
Note: I published the following article almost exactly one year ago. In light of the brutal attack on an LGBT conference participant in Belgrade this weekend, I’m republishing it now. The government...
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Belgrade Pride Parade: LIVE BLOGS AND UPDATES
Good morning, dobro jutro, добро јутро, доброе утро, and welcome to our live(ish) blog of the 2014 Belgrade Pride Parade, the first to take place in Serbia since the “anti-gay riot” in 2010 that left...
View ArticleBelgrade Pride 2014: Where There is a Need, There is Tolerance?
After this year’s peaceful Pride Parade, it will be difficult for the Serbian state to cite “security risks” as a reason to ban it. On September 28th, it appeared that Belgrade finally shook off the...
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The Week in Pictures
The past week has been disorienting. There were moments that looked and felt like a memory drawn from the last century. Others unintentionally echoed more recent events. Some of the spectacles we...
View ArticleOn Pride Parades in the Post-Communist Space
Pride parades have been criticized for being both too commercial and too easily co-opted by homophobic groups looking to project an extreme and inaccurate image of LGBT people as sexually deviant in...
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Kosovo’s Haveit Group: Artistic Engagement for a More Equal Society
The Haveit group recently protested against International Women’s Day in Kosovo. Their art vehemently rebels against power and water shortages, nationalism, LGBT discrimination and the oppression of...
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Putin’s Muscular Politics and the Power of Photography
How seriously should we take political propaganda photography in the 21st century? Sanja Bjelica looks at Putin propaganda from a feminist angle. The order of politics was created by men and for men,...
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LGBT Crackdown in Turkey: The Perils of Visibility
Describing himself as “a conservative nationalist first, a gay man second,” Melih Meşeli has little affection for Turkey’s other LGBTI groups and blames the protesters themselves for the crackdown....
View Article“We Want Censorship”: A Brief Introduction to Yugoslav Queer Culture
A small queer cultural scene briefly surfaced in 1980s Yugoslavia, leaving behind a few great songs. In April 1984, the controversial documentary Framed Youth: The Revenge of the Teenage Perverts...
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