Kosovo's First Ever Pride Parade
October 13, 2017 9:59 PM   Subscribe

On October 10th, a couple of hundred LGBT people marched in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, for that country's first ever Pride parade. Oddly, the coverage is only in the German press: blu.fm [Google Translate], Mannschaft Magazin [Google Translate].

Hattip to this week's episode of Gay USA for this October Showers story.
posted by hippybear (4 comments total) 15 users marked this as a favorite
 
Kosovo is 95 percent Muslim. This is my nomination for undercovered story of the month.
posted by texorama at 4:52 AM on October 14, 2017 [8 favorites]


I mean, the leader of the country was a part of the march making declarations about how people won't be left out in their society. That hasn't even happened ever once in the US. And it's being basically ignored, even by MetaFilter.
posted by hippybear at 4:49 PM on October 14, 2017 [1 favorite]


To be honest, I haven't commented because I don't know how to read the first comment.

Part of me thinks there's been no coverage because there were good odds off pulling it off with no problems. It feels like you have to get beaten up by the police for straight people to care and then they only notice because Peter Tatchell and Volker Beck and so on show up because someone will pay attention if they get beaten up.

But, yeah, countries that have their head of state or government show up to Pride are... Canada, Kosovo and that's it?
posted by hoyland at 5:05 PM on October 14, 2017 [1 favorite]


Happy to read this, sad I will be visiting next week instead of last. Thanks for posting hippybear.
posted by perrouno at 10:37 AM on October 15, 2017


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