Participants of the protest under the motto “It’s Enough!”, organised by Gay Straight Alliance in response to a recent attempted murder of a member of the LGBT population in Belgrade and the subsequent release from custody of her underaged attacker, requested from the Serbian Government to set up a national strategy against violence and discrimination and to introduce the notion of hate crime into the Serbian legal code.

Had ENOUGH of insults?
Had ENOUGH of hatred?
Had ENOUGH of violence?

Belgrade, 15.10.2011.

Regarding the statement of Minister of Interior Ivica Dačić and representatives of the Ministry about this morning’s attack on A. Ž. (24) in Belgrade city centre, where she was seriously injured, Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) would like to inform the public about several other details of the said attack.

Several thousands of citizens participated today in Novi Sad in a march entitled “Stop Fascism”, including activists of Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) from Novi Sad and Belgrade.

Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) strongly condemns ban on Belgrade Pride Parade 2011 and believes that this decision of the state authorities is a direct consequence of their failure to act and the fact that they have been ignoring the problem of violence and homophobia in Serbian society in the past year and in previous years also.

Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) is absolutely shocked at a joint press release of the extremist rightwing organization “Dveri” and the Police Syndicate of Serbia, in which they asked the representatives of LGBT organizations “to be socially responsible” and cancel the Pride Parade.

Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) is shocked by outbursts of hatred and open calls for violence towards LGBT people and other minority groups which were posted in the last few days on the Facebook profile of a high school teacher from Novi Sad, as was reported by some media.

The first conference on LGBT rights hosted and organized by a government of a Western Balkan country was held from 2nd to 4th September this year in Danilovgrad, Montenegro. The conference „Towards Europe – Towards Equality“ was organized by the Government of Montenegro in cooperation with the international academic conference „Justice in the Balkans: Equality for Sexual Minorities“, with the aid of the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Belgrade.

Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) wishes to inform the public that, after numerous postponements, today in the First Basic Court in Belgrade began the trial of Miša Vacić, one of the leaders of rightwing extremist organization „SNP Naši 1389“ (1389).

Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) expresses deep concern at the past few weeks’ increase in the number of attacks or attempted attacks on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, which the public has been regularly informed about.

Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) strongly condemns yesterday’s statement by Dragan Marković Palma, mayor of Jagodina, that homosexuality is a disease, which was published by some media.

Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) expresses deepest concern on account of the attack on a young gay man which occurred on July 18, 2011, around 2 P.M. in Nemanjina Street, one of the central Belgrade streets.

Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) has great pleasure in announcing that the first formative meeting of the Advisory Board of GSA was held on Saturday 2 July 2011, in Belgrade.

Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) wishes to inform the public that the trial of Miša Vacić, one of the leaders of the rightwing extremist organisation Naši 1389, has again been postponed today at the request of the defence.

Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) wants to inform the public that its Litigation Service submitted first instance verdict of the Belgrade High Court (The Court) which accepted GSA claim against the daily newspaper “Press” Ltd (Press). The Court has established that texts – comments of the readers, published on the website Press online on 2nd July 2009, represents hate speech against LGBT population and that the Press discriminated this population by enabling and allowing those comments to be placed on its web site.