Zagreb Pride
The Zagreb Pride (or LGBT Pride or Christopher Street Day) is a festival, memorial day and demonstration day of lesbians , gays , bisexuals and transgender ( LGBT ) people in Zagreb ( Croatia ). The festival demonstrates for the rights of these groups as well as against discrimination and exclusion.
The Zagreb Pride was the first and is now the largest event for homosexual people in Southeast Europe . Partner parades are the Ljubljana Pride ( Ljubljana , Slovenia), the Split Pride in Split and the Osijek Pride in Osijek . The number of participants grew from initially a few hundred to several thousand. In 2013, the Gay Pride in Zagreb had a total of 15,000 active participants. The parade has been held annually since 2002. Organizational members include InterPride , EPOA , IGLYO , ILGA -Europe as well as the organizations KONTRA and Iskorak from Rijeka and Queer Zagreb .
history
| year | date | Surname | motto | theme | Number of participants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | June 29th | Gay Pride Zagreb 2002 | Coming Out AGAINST prejudices ( Iskorak KONTRA Predrasuda ) | Coming out | 350 |
| 2003 | June 28th | Zagreb Pride 2003 | Proud Again ( Opet ponosno ) | Anti-discrimination legislation | 300 |
| 2004 | June 19th | LGBTIQ Pride March Zagreb Pride 2004 | Vive la difference ( Živjela različitost ) | Catholic church homophobia and transgender rights | 300 |
| 2005 | 10th of July | Zg Pride 2005 | Proud Together ( Ponosne / i zajedno ) | Registered Partnership Act | 100 |
| 2006 | June 24th | LGBTIQ Pride March Internacionala Pride 2006, Zagreb | To Live Freely (in 13 languages) ( Croatian : Živjeti slobodno ) | Freedom of assembling | 250 |
| 2007 | 7th of July | LGBTIQ Pride March Zagreb Pride 2007 | All to the Pride! Everybody to the Pride! ( Svi na Pride! Sve na Pride! ) | The visibility of LGBTIQ persons and the symbolic “takeover” of public spaces | 400 |
| 2008 | June 28th | LGBTIQ Pride March Zagreb Pride 2008 | You have the courage! ( Imaš hrabrosti! ) | Power of togetherness | 600 |
| 2009 | June 13th | LGBTIQ Pride March Zagreb Pride 2009 for the Open City - Stonewall 40 | Participate! ( Sudjeluj! ) | Participation for building a Zagreb LGBTIQ community | 800 |
| 2010 | June 19th | LGBTIQ Pride March Zagreb Pride 2010 | Croatia Can Swallow That ( Hrvatska to može progutati ) | Freedom of sexual expression and variety of sexual practices | 1200 |
| 2011 | 18th of June | LGBTIQ Pride March Zagreb Pride 2011 | The future is ours! ( Budućnost je naša! ) | First 10 prides and future that they bring | 3800 |
| 2012 | June 16 | LGBTIQ Pride March Zagreb Pride 2012 | We have family! A Millennium of Croatian Dreaming ( Imamo obitelj, tisućljetni hrvatski san ) | LGBTIQ families | 4000 |
| 2013 | 15th June | LGBTIQ and family Pride March Zagreb Pride 2013 | This is a country for all of us ( Ovo je zemlja za sve nas ) | protest against the referendum initiative for the constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage | 15000 |
| 2014 | 14th June | LGBTIQ and family Pride March Zagreb Pride 2014 | On the right side of the history ( Na pravoj strani povijesti ) | Widening the space for struggle: solidarity with social groups whose rights are endangered with the rise of radical and clerical right-wing agenda | 5000 |