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Belgrade Pride: I Didn't Know You Cared

As I type the far Right/neo-fascist rioting triggered by the Gay Pride march in Belgrade is the fourth item on BBC TV News, and the second item on BBC Radio 4 News.
Thanks Auntie, I didn't know you cared.
But Pride events in other eastern European cities, including Bratislava, Moscow, Riga and Warsaw, have also been met with violence in recent years without them being considered newsworthy by BBC TV.
Fagburn wonders if this sudden but selective concern for gay rights in an eastern European country has more to do with the Western media having spent so many years demonising the Serbs and Serbia - our last Officially Declared Enemy before 9/11 - that this has become a Pavlovian response?
At least this time no-one is arguing that we should start bombing Belgrade.

• Reports from Belgrade's B92 here.

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Fagburn very much likes this website, GayEcho Belgrade, from Serbia, although he doesn't really have any idea what they're writing about, and it could just possibly be nonsense on a stick.
Fagburn has a bit of a thing about the former Yugoslavia.
You know, Tito, the noble partisans, the non-aligned movement, workers' control, us bombing the fuck off out of them just cause they didn't bow down and worship the free market and that.
So just the idea of people being gay and Serbs thrills me.
Croats I'm less keen on.
Bosnians? Meh!
No wonder they had a civil war.
But I also like the way Serbo-Croat looks; "Boj Džordž večeras u Novom Sadu."
That's "Boy George comes to Novi Sad", I think.
It's somewhere in the north, and he's a much under-rated singer.
GayEcho appear to be having some trouble with Wikipedia, and their page keeps being taken down, the ever useful UK Gay News report, though I'm not quite sure when this was as there doesn't seem to be any mention of it on their own site.
Anyway, it wouldn't surprise me - Wikipedia is an idiots' paradise.