Belgrade, 17.05.2013.

The first “Rainbow” Award was awarded tonight at the Belgrade City Hall – award for contributions to the fight against homophobia and transphobia and for the improvement of the status of LGBT population in Serbia.

Belgrade, 15.05.2013.

The jury for 2012/13 “Rainbow” Award chose 5 nominees at their meeting yesterday, one of whom will receive the award which is being awarded for the first time this year.

Belgrade, 09.05.2013.

Gay Straight Alliance (GSA; Alliance) believes that the positions and messages of the „NGO Egal” representative, stated in the article “Straight people will be banned from entering the first Serbian LGBT corner”, published yesterday in Belgrade’s daily newspaper “24 sata”, and which was transmitted by other media as well, are extremely inappropriate and could harm severely the LGBT community in Serbia.

Belgrade, 29.04.2013.

Gay Straight Alliance (GSA; Alliance) welcomes the decision of the Constitutional Court of Serbia (USS; Court) to adopt a constitutional complaint (complaint) of the non-governmental organization Belgrade Pride Parade for banning Pride Parade 2011 in Belgrade (Pride 2011). Although the complaint was not adopted in full by the Court, but in part, it is very important that with this decision the Court stated that the Pride 2011 organizers’ rights, “the right to judicial protection under Article 22 of the Constitution, the right to a remedy under Article 36 of the Constitution and consequently the right to freedom of assembly under Article 54 of the Constitution”, have been violated.

Belgrade, 16.04.2013.

Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights (YUCOM) and Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) today in Media Center in Belgrade held a conference that initiated activities to promote the importance of incrimination of hate crime in the Criminal Code (CC) of the Republic of Serbia (RS).

Belgrade, 09.04.2013.

Gay Straight Alliance (GSA; Alliance) would like to inform the public that this year we will start giving an award for contributions to the fight against homophobia and transphobia, and the protection and promotion of human rights of LGBT people in Serbia. The award named “Rainbow” (“Duga” in Serbian language) will be awarded every year on May 17th, which is the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO), for contributions in the previous year.

Belgrade, 20.03.2013.

Gay Straight Alliance (GSA; Alliance) welcomes the adoption of the program document of the Democratic Party (DS) which, among other things, includes anti-discrimination points and proposals for measures for improving status of LGBT population.

Belgrade, 21.01.2013.

Gay Straight Alliance (GSA; Alliance) wishes to announce that, during an inflammatory campaign in the past couple of months, the far-right organisation Serbian National Movement “Naši” (SNP Naši; Naši means „Ours“ in English) has stated a lot of shameless lies about GSA and its work, by which SNP Naši conciously and in the crudest way tried to deceive the Serbian and international public. After seeing everything that SNP Naši has claimed through numerous press releases and statements about GSA and other organisations and media that are on their so-called black list, which they published on their website and other media, and after consulting with its litigation team Alliance has decided to file criminal charges against responsible individuals in SNP Naši for false reporting and other acts from the Criminal Code of the Republic of Serbia which have caused huge damage to Alliance. Also, in later court proceedings, in addition to criminal charges GSA intends to file a compensation claim lawsuit in the amount of one million dinars for falsehoods told about GSA’s work by SNP Naši.

Belgrade, 09.01.2013.

Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) wishes to inform the public that its Litigation Service received the final verdict of the Court of Appeals in city of Novi Sad which confirmed discriminatory behavior and the severe discrimination against M.A. (25) from the Serbian city of Vršac by his colleague Dario K. (26) from Vlajkovac (place near by Vršac). The discrimination lasted continuously for several months at the workplace in a private company in Vršac where both men worked.

Belgrade, 09.11.2012

On Wednesday, November 7, 2012, Dr. Vesna Pesic, sociologist and ex MP in several convolutions of parliament was a guest at the weekly meeting of the Gay straight alliance’s (GSA; Alliance) members. Vesna Pesic is a prominent member of the Serbian sociopolitical scene and founder of numerous organizations fighting for peace and human rights. She was one of the leaders of the coalition “Together, Zajedno” which organized huge protests lasting for months for the election fraud by Milosevic’s regime in 1996/97. She was the founder and the first president of the Civic Alliance of Serbia (CAS, GSS), political party that during the 90’s conducted pronouncedly anti war politics, and after the merging of GSS and Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in 2007, she became a president of the Political Council of the LDP. She received a numerous international rewards for democracy, and in 1997 she was nominated for a Nobel peace prize. She retired from LDP and politics in 2011, but is still very active in public and working on sociological and political analysis.