Anti gay riot

The Belgrade anti-gay riot was an incident of violence against LGBT people that occurred on 10 October during a pride parade, organized to promote LGBT rights in Serbia. The Stonewall Riots, also called the Stonewall Uprising, began in the early hours of June 28, when New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club located in Greenwich Village. It's the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, which helped spark the fight for gay rights around the world.

During the s, being gay was classified as a mental illness in the US. In , a series of riots over police action against The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, changed the landscape of homosexual society quite literally overnight.

Since then, the term 'Stonewall' itself has become almost synonymous with the struggle for gay rights. Anti-gay protesters have fought running battles with police in an effort to disrupt a Gay Pride march in Belgrade - the first in the city since Rioters threw petrol bombs and stones at. It's the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, which helped spark the fight for gay rights around the world.

After the Stonewall protests happened, the first Pride festival officially took place in the UK in As the black gay rights activist Ernestine Eckstein said in an interview with the lesbian magazine The Ladder in Police in Belgrade have detained dozens of people after clashes with right-wing and ultranationalist protesters, who had said they would prevent a Pride march in the Serbian capital.

The Stonewall riots changed attitudes to gay rights around the world.

Georgia Pride festival in Tbilisi stormed by right-wing protesters

This is a fight for human rights. Opponents accuse the Georgian Dream government of leaning towards Moscow, despite Georgia's long-standing ambition to join the EU. Ultranationalist protesters hurled stun grenades, stones and flares at a police cordon, which repelled the attack with batons and riot shields.

Gay people were regularly threatened and beaten by police, and were shunned by many in society. Skip to content. More than 20 embassies — including the US, France and the UK — issued a joint statement urging the authorities to lift the ban. This event triggered a week of protests and rioting by people from the gay community, who were fed up of being harassed by the authorities. What is homophobia? Those who find themselves doused in glitter or wrapped in rainbow flags may think this is merely an annual summer party of sexual and gender diversity.

Published On 17 Sep 17 Sep Events More events. The groups had been "openly inciting violence", she said. What happened? During the s, being gay was classified as a mental illness in the US. But gay liberation also emerged alongside activism for legal equality. Far-right protesters also violently disrupted a Pride festival in Tbilisi in , attacking journalists and LGBT activists.

In the early hours of June 28 , the New York Police Department raided the Stonewall Inn in an attempt to permanently close a bar that was violating licensing regulations.

Stonewall riots date

LGBTQ activists gathered for an international Pride march on Saturday a few kilometres away despite threats from anti-gay groups and a ban by the government of President Aleksandar Vucic late last month. This should caution us against romanticising progress. I would like to see more test cases in courts, so that our grievances can be brought out into the open. It became illegal to encourage homophobic hatred in A month after the riots, the first openly gay march took place in New York, demanding equality.

Similar exclusions within the LGBTQ community are apparent today in the racism of gay spaces and anti-trans hostility at Pride. The organisers and Georgia's president blamed anti-LGBT hate speech that preceded the event, and said the police had failed to protect festival-goers. View comments 5.