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.

Activists of the Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) today at the GSA stand at the Belgrade Civil Society Organizations Fair (CSO Fair) spoke to citizens about the status of LGBT population in Serbia and shared promotional material relating to the arguments against the most common prejudices about this population.

As opposed to two years ago when, on the same occasion, Sava Centre forbade the conference to be held there, Gay Straight Alliance held a conference today to present its annual Report on the state of human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Serbia for 2010 – “Step by Step“ – in the Belgrade City Hall.

Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) would like to inform the public that its two Internet domains, gsa.org.rs and gsa.rs have been hacked today. The hacker signed himself as “John the Ripper”, and left the following message on a black background: “Tadić, call for elections!!! Who is next?!”.

Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) believes that today’s convictions of members and supporters of extremist right-wing organization Obraz are extremely mild compared to the amount of violence and aggression during the Belgrade Pride Parade 2010 and taking into account that the punishment for the offenses in the Criminal Code are up to 12 years in prison.

Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) wishes to inform the public that Miša Vacić’s trial, scheduled for today in the First basic court in Belgrade, has been postponed again at the request of the lawyer of the defendant, one of the leaders of right-wing organisation SNP Naši 1389.

As Gay Straight Alliance and Labris, the organization for lesbian human rights, have been informed by Department for Human Rights and Environment Preservation by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Serbia supported the mutual statement on termination of violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity at United Nations Human Rights Council.

Novi Sad branch of Gay Straight Alliance organized an international training course about fighting discrimination and social exclusion of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people through the use of music and video production.

Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) and Labris – Organisation for Lesbian Human Rights have today called on Republic of Serbia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Vuk Jeremić to support joint Statement for cease of violence over LGBT persons and breaches of guaranteed human rights on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity (The Statement), that will be submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council on 22nd March 2011.

Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) wishes to inform the public that the information released on 28 February 2011 by the organization SNP Naši 1389 is completely false.

Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) is extremely surprised at the information that a new organization has already been founded and registered which will deal with organizing the Belgrade Pride Parade, especially because a large number of existing LGBT activists and organizations, including GSA, were not informed about the founding of this new organization.

Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) has issued an invitation today to all relevant LGBT organizations in Serbia for a meeting at the beginning of March 2011 in order to talk about models for organizing Pride Parade 2011.

Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) called today on the Democratic Party (DS) and Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) to revise their programs and other important party documents at their upcoming party assemblies in accordance with European standards on human rights and to include anti-discrimination provisions concerning the LGBT community and other minority groups.