Thursday, April 2, 2009

Messages from Home

I have left Serbia 16 years ago searching for my own identity and struggling to understand what was wrong with me liking women. I gradually forgot what it meant to be a lesbian in Serbia. The matter was to adjust to being lesbian in China - at that time (16 years ago) not much different. But, things have changed in China since 2000 - the new law stated that homosexuality was not an illness and life moved on, bars still occasionally get raids but there is no gay bashing and I think Chinese activists are doing an amazing thing to help us live in peace internally and externally.

16 years later I hear... the law has changed in Serbia against discrimination of various groups (related to religion, sexual orientation, gender or beliefs). Looking forward to another chance there is a pride parade in Belgrade this summer. I am so excited, hopeful that there is a way for everybody to live in Serbia and be open minded, to be able to express themselves without any punishment and single minded view of the world.

Not everybody in Serbia thinks that way...

Anti-gay groups on the facebook (origin - Serbia):

1. Stop Pederluku !!!

To nije normalno, to je protiv prirode.. Kazimo NE gej brakovima u Srbiji, usvajanju dece od strane pedera, i ne dozvolimo da se nasa zemlja pretvori u ogromnu gej paradu!!
Oni treba da se leče. Ako nas Evropa ne bude htela zato što prava homoseksualaca nismo rešili na bolji način, onda nam takva Evropa i ne treba..

Evo kako je nas veliki knjaz Milos resio pitanje pedera:
Rešenje Miloša Velikog:
Kada nekog nađu sa osobom istog pola na gomili stave ga u bure sa fekalijama i to taman toliko da mu dođu do guše, zatim neko ko je dobar strelac gađa tačno iznad glave kako bi ovaj morao da uroni u bure i shvati kako je kada neke stvari ulaze gde ne treba..

(TRANSLATION)
(Stop Fagoting!!!) 265 members
This is not normal, it is against our nature. Say No to gay marriages in Serbia, adoption of children for gay couples, we don't want to let our country turn into a big gay parade!!
They need a treatment. If Europe doesn't want us because we didn't have a better way to sort gay rights then we don't need that kind of Europe...

Here is how our great duke Milos solved the fagot issue:

Solution of Milos the Great:
When they find somebody of same sex together they put him into a barrel with feces coming up to his throat and then a good shooter aims right above his head so he needs to dive into the barrel to understand how it is when something goes where it shouldn't go.

2. IDEMO NA GEJ PARADU DA PEGLAMO PEDERE!
Grobari i Delije ujedinite se da zgazimo pedere
Gej parada je jedinstveni skup pedercina na jednom mestu, gde ih je naj lakse ugaziti!

Let's go to Gay Parade to beat faggots! 120 members
Under slogan: Grobari and Delije (footbal fans) get together to step on faggots
Gey pride is a unique gathering of queers on one spot so it is easier to step on them!

3. NEĆU GEJ PARADU!!!~We Don't Want Gay Parade!!! 539 members (attached photo is from this group)

(ZA SRPSKO GOVORNO PODRUCJE)
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PRVO:
Uclanite se u grupu,
pozovite sve svoje prijatelje da se pridruze,
Sirite grupu da se zajedno borimo protiv gej parade
Hvala!!!!!


(FOR ENGLISH -SPEAKING AREA)
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FIRST:
Join group
Invite all your friends to join,
Spread group together to fight against the gay parade
Thank you !!!!!


4. We don't want faggots in Serbia
Serbia can go on without
2528 members

Comment from a member:

Ja sam završila psihologiju. Tamo smo učili da su to seksualne devijacije (tj. bolesti). Sada dolazi do zamene teze. Nas, koji smo zdravi, proglašavaju bolesnima ("homofobni"), a bolesne - zdravima. U Londonu se u eksperimentalne škole uvodi obavezna lektira - bajke, gde se princ zaljubi u princa...Tužno.
Mislim da rešenje nisu logori, nego da svako u svojoj porodici i svom okruženju radi na borbi protiv ove zamene teze. Samo na jedno pitanje ne znam odgovor - KOME ova zamena teze ODGOVARA? Ko to ne želi da se umnožimo? Ko ovu ideju gura? Koji je cilj???

I graduated psychology. There they taught us that these are sexual deviations (i.e. illness). Now they want us to change the thesis. Us, who are healthy, they proclaim for sick ('homophobic') and the sick ones are now healthy. In London they introduced compulsury reading in schools - fairy tales where prince falls in love with prince... sad.
I don't think that concentration camps are the solution but everybody in their own family and in their own environment need to work against this changed thesis. i just don't know one thing - In WHOSE INTEREST is the change of this thesis? Who doesn't want us to reproduce? Who is pushing for this idea? What is the purpose???
as written on the group: mamu li vam jebem pedersku, homoseksualac

f*** your queer mother, you faggot

First Belgrade Gay Pride Parade was in year 2000. Police and crowd attacked those peacefully marching on the streets. It ended with blood.