Pride Parade 2011 will take place on 2nd October in city park Manjež in Belgrade, from where the participants will start the Parade walk after welcoming speeches, along Nemanjina St, Kneza Milosa and Masarikova St and the whole event will be concluded with a party in the park.
The Organizational Committee of the Parade with relevant experience in organizing similar events is working on planning security measures about the Pride Parade in detail.
As organizers we are aware of certain safety risks of the Parade and we recommend that you follow the advice bellow:
1. Gathering of Parade participants is scheduled from 10 to 11 a.m. in Manjež park.
2. Gates will be closed precisely at 11 a.m. and after this time it will not be possible to enter the park.
3. The gathering will be closed during the walk and after it so that nobody can join the Parade after it starts.
4. When entering Manjež all participants will be provided with the second part of safety instructions referring to the gathering itself and safe ways of leaving the gathering.
5. The number of police will be significantly increased all around the city in Belgrade on 2nd October, especially around the place where the Parade will be held and some of the streets around Manjež will be closed. We recommend that you use public transport and/or walk to come to the Parade rather than coming with your car.
6. Coming along small streets and using shortcuts, as well as coming in numerous groups is not advisable.
7. You should bring to the gathering as few things as you can and be dressed casually.
8. It is advisable to come to the gathering without visible marks of LGBT movements (badges, flags, banners, rainbow coloured features, etc.). The organizers will provide promo material to be distributed on the gathering.
9. Also, it is very important to remove all marks/features of the Parade from yourself after the program ends, that is, before you leave the gathering.
10. If you are coming from another city or from abroad, in order not to get yourself into a risky situation for not being familiar with the city and the like cases, contact us on the following e-mail
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, so that we can coordinate your coming and forward to you all the important information about it in time.
11. Toilets and water will be available to the participants of the Pride Parade in the Manjež park.
12. It is advisable not to bring any food or drinks to the gathering as well as anything that could endanger the safety of participants so this kind of items will not be allowed on the entrance to the gathering.
13. Representatives of the media will join us on the Parade and will bare accreditations PRESS. If you don't want to be photographed or interviewed you have the right to admonish them about that. If you want to take a picture of the gathering, before doing that you should ask the people being photographed if they mind it.
Please, forward these instructions to all people you know will be coming to the Parade or are thinking of coming. It is important to us that the safety instructions are available to everyone and more importantly for us all to follow this advice. Also, you can direct anyone interested to the Pride Parade web site www.parada.rs or e-mail address
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Prague Pride 2011 was the first-ever pride parade held in Prague. As its organizers, we are proud that it was such a happy and peaceful event, with thousands of supportive participants from the Czech Republic as well as from abroad. Our hope is that the Belgrade Pride, although organized in a different environment, will have a similar impact.
The AIRE Centre offers its full support to the organisers of the 2011 Belgrade Pride Parade.
Dear Organizers of Belgrade Pride,
Dear All, Lepa Mladjenovic has been writing me of the growing threats against lesbians and gay people as the time of gay pride draws near. You know, Di and I still and will always be with you all--your faces, words, bodies, are now part of us, are precious to us. I will always do what ever I can to let the world know what is happening on your streets and the courage with which you face and refuse so many histories of dictated hatreds. I send my lesbian love, that stretches from my New York streets of the late 1950s to the Belgrade you shared with us, our histories of resistance are with you.