Loreen for Belgrade Pride!
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
By:
Nevin Öztop
Eurovision 2012 Song Competition winner Loreen spoke to the organizers of the upcoming Belgrade Pride and gave her full support to the cause. In the video, Loreen expresses her support by “Hi, my name is Loreen and I support Pride Belgrade 2012. You should too.”
Loreen was representing Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest in May organized in Baku, Azerbaijan. She was the only singer to have met independent journalists, human rights activists and feminists in Azerbaijan and to have criticized the human rights situation in the country.
Belgrade Pride 2012
Slogan for this year is “Love, Faith, Hope” as the program coincides with the Orthodox religious holiday “Faith, Hope and Charity”.
Belgrade Pride Parade has announced May 22 that the Belgrade Pride 2012 will be held from September 30th to October 7th. For the first time the Pride has the form of 8-days festival, with a lot of daily activities and Pride March on October 6th as a part of manifestation. Slogan for this year is “Love, Faith, Hope” as the program coincides with the Orthodox religious holiday “Faith, Hope and Charity”.
In Belgrade, there had been two Pride Parades under circumstances of extreme violence in 2001 and 2010. One Pride was cancelled by the organizers in 2004 and two Prides were banned by the authorities in 2009 and 2011, which all indicates the social climate of the LGBT community environment.
Related videos:
Loreen Supports Belgrade Pride 2012
Loreen visits human rights representatives in Azerbaijan
Loreen visits the Azerbaijan Feminist Group
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