(Image: ©Anne-Lore Mesnage/ anneloremesnage.com/)

Gay Pride in Bucharest: counting crows (14 images)

Few attended gay pride on 22 May in Bucharest, as many members of the heterosexual and LGBT communities stayed indoors, silent. cafebabel.com spoke to march goers, the EU guests and the gay rights association, Accept, which organised the fifth edition of the event

View the image gallery

by Nabeelah Shabbir @ , Anne Lore Mesnage @

View the image gallery in:

English [original version]
- French
- German
- Spanish
- Italian

25/05/10

Tags : bucarest, Politique, Bukareszt, homosexualité, jeunesse, Europe centrale et orientale, Violence, Union européenne, droits des homosexuels, Discrimination, Société, Homosexuels, droits de l'homme, Roumanie, democrazia, polizia.

Share :
- Send by mail
- Del.icio.us
- Digg
- Wikio
- Blogmarks
- LinkedIn
- Diigo
- Technorati
- Favourites

4votes plus 0 votes moins

Vote for this article 4votes plus 0 votes moins

Subscribe to comments reverse the order of comments Refresh comments Join the discussion

aqueertheory - 2010-05-26 00:41:29

This is an amazing photo gallery... so many parallels with Baltic Pride in Lithuania, but it is encouraging to hear that there was hardly any violence and that fewer police officers were needed to guard the parade. Still... much remains to be done. Thank you for this report!

N - 2010-05-26 09:38:46

It's weird because as well as handing out masks at the event, glass mirrors were handed out, to hold up and look at yourself in the reflection as you walked in the sun. I felt like should the mirror get into the wrong hands, who knew what would happen. That's paranoia at the heights for you. On another note, when I spoke to other members of the community in Romania, who didn't attend the event, they claimed that Accept were the kind of organisation who hand out condoms in nightspots but did little else; I am not sure how true that is, but like you say, someone has to be out there taking the mantle

Halla - 2010-07-06 13:41:31

The slideshow mentions a fear of violence in eastern Europe, but northern Europe is apparently no better. On the first weekend of July Helsinki Pride did experience attacks with teargas and spray. And there were much more people than in Bucharest - some 5, 000

Got anything to say? Do it here!

Already a babelian? Log-in. Or sign up!

Gay Pride in Bucharest: counting crows (14 images)

Latest image slideshows

Tags