It can also be rightfully asked how come that in the Serbian society, a benign manifestation, such as Pride Parade, can provoke more tension and threats with violence than other, so called, grander social themes, like Kosovo, the unemployment, social crisis and so on. How come that such a large number of young people is ready to go into streets and brutally clash with police just because of the bigotry towards gay population, leaving the extreme unemployment of young persons without any form of protest?
The State, ever so boastful of being more powerful than the criminals and hooligans, should be clearly demonstrating its strength by providing the respect of human rights and liberties, already guaranteed by the European and global standards. We still have to cope with diffidence and expressed worry on the ground of the possible “demolition of the city”, even though such concerns are commonly raised before every football game, with the government representatives not calling for the ban.
One of the main questions is how we have found ourselves in the situation in which human rights, guaranteed by both international and domestic legislature, are interpreted in such a flexible way? Are we, to put it simply, an irremediably homophobic society, or something else is the case?