Outsports » Serbia http://outsports.com/jocktalkblog Jock Talk Blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:29:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Soccer fans force gay pride cancelation http://outsports.com/jocktalkblog/2009/09/22/soccer-fans-force-gay-pride-cancelation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=soccer-fans-force-gay-pride-cancelation http://outsports.com/jocktalkblog/2009/09/22/soccer-fans-force-gay-pride-cancelation/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:09:33 +0000 Cyd Zeigler jr. http://outsports.com/jocktalkblog/?p=8432

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We’ve reported in the past about the intense homophobia of many soccer fans in Serbia, and their hatred has claimed another victim. The gay-pride parade that was supposed to celebrate gay people in Belgrade on Sunday was canceled because so many groups of soccer fans had announced they would be attacking people in the parade [...]

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]]> We’ve reported in the past about the intense homophobia of many soccer fans in Serbia, and their hatred has claimed another victim. The gay-pride parade that was supposed to celebrate gay people in Belgrade on Sunday was canceled because so many groups of soccer fans had announced they would be attacking people in the parade and the police officers trying to protect them. From the BBC:

The organisers and city authorities feared a repeat of eight years ago, when Belgrade’s first ever gay parade had to be abandoned half-way through due to widespread violence by an angry mob of protesters.

Hat tip to Rob Jagnow.

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Some gay people in Belgrade, Serbia, are calling in FIFA to help curb soccer-based homophobic graffiti in the city. Messages advocating the murder of gays (the one to the right reads: “Death to faggots”), and signed by fans of Serbian soccer groups (South Gate is a group of Serbian fans), is apparently abundant in the [...]

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]]> Some gay people in Belgrade, Serbia, are calling in FIFA to help curb soccer-based homophobic graffiti in the city. Messages advocating the murder of gays (the one to the right reads: “Death to faggots”), and signed by fans of Serbian soccer groups (South Gate is a group of Serbian fans), is apparently abundant in the city. From the UK Gay News:

Two weeks ago, the Gay and Lesbian Info Center in Belgrade and other non-governmental organisations requested the Football Association of Serbia and the management of the two clubs to publicly distance themselves from these messages and to condemn the calls to murder of gay persons. But the plea has fallen on deaf ears. So a letter has been sent to FIFA headquarters in Zurich.

The messages are apparently in reaction to the local gay pride parade. The Mayor of Belgrade has said he is against violence, but he has also said he’s against the local pride parade: A mixed message that has left many gay people in Belgrade nervous and scared.

Hat tip to UK Gay News.

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