(11 Sep 2022)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Belgrade - 11 September 2022
++DAY SHOTS++
1. Various of Serbian Orthodox clergy as they hold a banner at anti-Pride protest
2. Various of poster of Russian President Vladimir Putin in crowd
3. Ranko Gojkovic, one of the organizers of the protest, speaking into microphone
4. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Ranko Gojkovic, protest organizer:
"Apart from the unconditional request to ban the EuroPride, we are asking for the banning of all forms of propaganda, of homosexual and transgender ideology for underage children."
5. Various of people holding banner reading (Serbian Cyrillic) "Keep your hands away from our children"
6. Various of protesters walking down a street while holding religious iconography
7. Various of people holding a giant Serbian and Russian flag during protest
8. Protesters carrying crosses while marching through central Belgrade
9. Close of religious flag at gathering outside Saint Sava temple
10. Protesters gathered before the Saint Sava temple, as they wait for Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Porfirije to lead the prayer
++NIGHT SHOTS++
11. Pan to left of clergy at stage
12. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Patriarch Porfirije, Serbian Orthodox Church:
"We do not want anybody, from whichever side of the world they might come, to push onto us their values, their own view of the world, their lifestyle."
13. Porfirije, centre, a he finishes the sermon
STORYLINE:
Thousands of opponents of a pan-European LGBTQ event planned for this week in Belgrade marched through the Serbian capital on Sunday despite an announced ban of Europe's largest annual gay gathering.
The procession called by the conservative Serbian Orthodox Church and led by its clergy included anti-Western slogans as well as Russian flags and portraits of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
One of the organizers, Ranko Gojkovic, said while speaking to the protesters: "Apart from the unconditional request to ban the EuroPride, we are asking for the banning of all forms of propaganda, of homosexual and transgender ideology for underage children."
After the march, Serbian Patriarch Porfirije held prayers at the main Saint Sava temple in Belgrade, saying: "We do not want anybody, from whichever side of the world they might come, to push onto us their values, their own view of the world, their lifestyle."
Organizers of the EuroPride — which includes a week of events and a Pride march in Belgrade on September 17 — have said they will ignore the police ban and hold the LGBTQ festivities.
Members of the European Pride Organizers Association chose Serbia's capital three years ago to host the annual event, hoping it would represent a major breakthrough for a Slavic country that is traditionally conservative and under strong influence from the Orthodox Church.
Serbia is formally seeking European Union membership, but has for years been moving closer to Russia's political orbit.
The Balkan country has voted for United Nations resolutions condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but has refused to join Western sanctions against Moscow.
Serbia's populist President Aleksandar Vucic, who has announced the ban, said Serbia's police cannot cope with possible riots by right-wing groups against the Pride march amid a crisis over Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo as well as the energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine.
Serbian human rights groups have urged supporters to join the Pride march as part of struggle for democracy that they say is under threat in Serbia from Vucic's autocratic regime.
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