Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) is joining the association „Pride Parade Belgrade“ in their statement from April, 8, 2012, in which they are inviting representatives of state institutions in Serbia to help the Pride Parade 2012, and act according to the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia, European Convention on Human rights and conclusions from the latest Resolution of the European Parliament.

Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) has a great pleasure to inform you that our executive director and one of the founders of the GSA, Mirjana Bogdanovic, participated in the „Open World“ program, organized for delegates from different countries, which is taking place in the United States of America.

Belgrade, 16.02.2012.

Court of Appeal in Belgrade issued a second instance verdict in the Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) case against the daily newspaper “Press” d.o.o, dismissing as unfounded the defendants appeals and upheld the first instance judgment of High Court in Belgrade, which established the text – readers’ comments published July, 2nd 2009. at the Internet site “Press Online” are hate speech against LGBT population, and that Press discriminatory treated this population by permitting and facilitating the above comments to be placed on the site.

Belgrade, 03.02.2012

Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights (YUCOM) and Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) presented state institutions today with the Initiative for supplementing the Bill on Amendments and Addendums of the Criminal Code (CC) of the Republic of Serbia which (Bill) was brought before the National Assembly on January 31. Initiative for supplementing the Bill which was drawn by these two organizations proposes to include the concept of hate crime in the CC and contains its definition, addendums to certain articles of the Criminal Code by which the motive of hatred would be regarded as an aggravating circumstance, increasing the punishment for such acts, as well as the justification of this initiative.

Regarding various pieces of information that have appeared in the media in the past few weeks about the case of Stefan Radović, a young gay man from Kuršumlija, Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) would like to inform the public on several facts.

Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) expresses its deepest concern following the last of a series of frequent physical assaults based on sexual orientation and gender identity, which happened in the night of 25/26th November 2011 in the very center of the city, near the Republic Square.

Belgrade, 02.11.2011

Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) would like to inform the public that First Basic Court in Belgrade reached a first-degree guilty verdict against Dragan Marković Palma, mayor of the city of Jagodina, president of the parliamentary political party United Serbia (JS) and until recently a member of the Serbian Parliament, for severe form of discrimination of LGBT population.

Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) is participating in the 15th annual conference of ILGA-Europe, the biggest annual meeting of LGBT activists in Europe, which is being held this year from 27th to 30th October in Italian city Turin.

After Wednesday’s anti-violence protest Dosta je! (It’s enough!) held in front of the Serbian Government headquarters, which was organized by Gay Straight Alliance (GSA), a delegation of GSA had meetings on Thursday October 20th, 2011 with Nenad Đurđević, Head of the Directorate of Human and Minority Rights in the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights, Public Admistration and Local Self-government, and Slobodan Homen, State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice and Government’s Public Relations Coordinator.