The project “Together for LGBT Equality“ brings together five non-governmental organisations that deal with different fields of human and LGBT rights in Serbia, and they are: Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) as the project coordinator, Gay Lesbian Info Center (GLIC), Center for Queer Studies (CKS), Loud & Queer and Q-club. Outside project partners include EXIT from Novi Sad and Dom Omladine in Belgrade, as well as cultural institutions in several Serbian cities.
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Gay Straight Alliance (GSA), like every year so far, is taking part in the 3rd Civil Society Organisations Fair (CSO Fair) which opened today on the square of Nikola Pašić in Belgrade and which lasts for two days.
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::: Annual Report 2011 ::: (pdf download)
Gay Straight Alliance (GSA; Alliance) organized for the second year in a row presentation of its Annual Report on the state of human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Serbia, within the celebration of May 17th – The International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) which has been marked in the world since 1990, when the World Health Organization removed homosexuality from its list of diseases.
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The International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) is celebrated worldwide every May 17, since 1990 when the World Health Organization removed homosexuality from its list of diseases.
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With the upcoming presidential, parliamentary, regional and local elections to be held on Sunday, 6 May 2012, Gay Straight Alliance (GSA; Alliance) invites all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people with the right to vote in Serbia and diaspora, as well as their friends, relatives and other citizens, to vote in great numbers and elect those political options to which LGBT rights, and human rights as a whole, matter.
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Belgrade, 02.05.2012.
Gay Straight Alliance (GSA; Alliance) commends the decision of the Directorate of Human and Minority Rights of the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights, Public Administration and Local Self-Government to begin drawing up the National Strategy for Battling Discrimination (NSBD; Strategy) and steps it has taken in that direction.
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Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) issued questions today concerning LGBT rights and the status of LGBT people in Serbia to all presidential candidates, parliamentary electoral lists leaders and primary candidates on the lists. This action is conducted within the campaign “It matters!“ which started immediately after the announcement of elections and which aims to present the positions of candidates concerning the status of LGBT population and concrete measures the candidates would take to reduce violence and discrimination and increase tolerance towards this population if they were elected.
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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.
Read More After annunciation of parliamentary, provincial and local elections, Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) invited today all political parties, groups and affiliations that announced their participation in the elections, to include in their electoral programs and campaigns questions regarding human rights, including the rights of LGBT people, and to offer concrete solutions that would reduce violence, discrimination and homophobia in Serbia, which they will be willing to implement if they are to be elected.
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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.
Read More 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.
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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.
Read More 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.
Read More 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.
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