Zagreb Pride

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(Tanjug, file)



Croatia’s Foreign Minister Vesna Pusić and several MPs joined the members of the LGBT population in their walk around the city.

The Croatian police are out in force in order to keep the parade participants safe.

The organizers stressed earlier that they wanted to warn that gay people had the right to live their lives the way they wanted to.

They also called on all citizens, regardless of whether they belong to the LGBT community or not, to join the parade and support the LGBT community’s right to equality and dignity.

The organizers said they expected more than 5,000 people at the Saturday parade.

“We want to show that we have the right to public assembly, that our families exist and that they should be regulated by laws,” Marko Jurčić, one of the organizers, pointed out.


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Croatia: Health Minister against fertility treatment for gay couples

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Croatian Minister of Health Darko Milinovic has stood firm by his statement that medically assisted reproduction is not for gay couples.

"These procedures are applied in cases of those couples who - because of disease and dysfunction of the reproductive organs - can not have children. Because gay couples can not have children because of their sexual orientation, which is not a disease, they can not access medical fertility procedures," Cobankovic said on Thursday.He added that everyone has the right to sexual orientation.

In his speech at a Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) event in Gospic (central Croatia), Milinovic said that the left coalition emphasises that it would allow gay and lesbian marriages, something HDZ is firmly against, daily 24 Sata writes.

17 são presos por homofobia em parada na Croácia

http://paroutudo.com/2011/06/19/17-sao-presos-por-homofobia-em-parada-na-croacia/

A polícia croata prendeu 17 pessoas por xingamentos homofóbicos contra a parada do orgulho LGBT de Zagreb, capital do país. O evento foi realizado no sábado 18.

A marcha arco-íris reuniu cerca de 2 mil pessoas e foi protegida por 700 policiais. O governo quer passar a idéia de país tolerante para que a candidatura croata a integrante da Comunidade Européia não seja prejudicada.

Uma semana antes, a parada da cidade de Split, no interior do país, foi marcada pela prisão de 137 homofóbicos. A polícia teve de intervir para proteger a vida dos 200 participantes da parada. Cerca de 10 mil pessoas se manifestavam contra a liberdade LGBT.

http://paroutudo.com/2011/06/19/17-sao-presos-por-homofobia-em-parada-na-croacia/