Tom in Lazybrook
pre 12 godina
All of those cities have Gay Pride Parades. In public. And have so for years. No violence happens at these events.
(Tom in Lazybrook, 1 October 2011 17:00)
No, they just have a national political party calling for a Constitutional ammendment defining what marriage is, and throwing up candidates that think homosexuality can be cured :)
(Balkan Anthropologist, 2 October 2011 00:00)
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You opined that life in Montgomery, or Boise, or Jackson, or Omaha is the same/worse than Belgrade. You don't know squat. I LIVE in Alabama. There are no bands of violent homophobes roaming the streets in Alabama (unlike Serbia), we have public Gay protests (unlike Serbia), we have spaces that are our own (unlike Serbia), we have out gay police officers, and we've even managed to get several openly Gay elected politicians. Unlike Serbia, Alabama's police and prosecuters actually put people in prison for crimes against Gay people (why is Obradovic still not in jail?) Its not perfect, but it is 1,000,000 times better than Belgrade. The Republicans are bad, but Serbia's politicians are much much worse.
Here's Omaha's Gay pride website http://ongp.com/
Here's Mississippi's http://outoberfest.com/ (There are two other Gay pride parades in smaller Mississippi towns
Here's Alabama's http://centralalabamapride.org/ Alabama's second city has a Gay pride as well.
Here's Idahos http://www.boisepride.org/
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I think we can just establish that you don't know anything about the south or intermountain west as every single city of any consequence in the USA has multiple public gay events. Yes, it is true that there have been referendums that have resulted in Gay couples having the exact same rights as Gay Serbians (none) when it comes to marriage rights, but in the USA, that will be resolved shortly throught the courts. That constitutional amendment will never be passed in the USA. You'll find that in civilized countries, even those opposed to Gay rights support our right to speak publically and protest for that which we support.
Next year, perhaps we'll hold a pride parade in support of freedom of speech, protest, and petiton for Gay Serbs on the same day as the Belgrade Pride in the Serbian neighborhood of Chicago right outside the Serbian Orthodox Church in Chicago! We might do the same in Toronto as well and London as well! And in front of the Europarliament. We'll get tons of media. How do you think its going to make Serbia look? Especially if predictably the event is cancelled or attacked by rightwingers/football hooligans/skinheads. We can't make Serbia do anything. But we can turn the volume up. Way up.
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