When I received the unexpected and unbelievable news that Belgrade Pride 2025 will be marching for “For the family.”  I thought It was a joke. In the past, Belgrade Pride marches were focused on promoting LGBTQ+ rights and equality, not on a specific family structure. 

But it’s true! Belgrade Pride 2025, also known as Beograd Prajd, will take place from September 1st to 7th, with the central Pride march scheduled for Saturday, September 6th. The event is an annual celebration of the LGBT community and their western and EU allies in Belgrade, Serbia. This year’s theme is really “For the Family”. Seen on X:

This year’s Pride campaign will focus the importance of all forms of families, but on their video posted on X, you can only see a man loving a man. Screenshot of the Belgrade Pride organisers’s short promotional video:

The Belgrade Pride program is created in collaboration with various LGBTQ+ organizations, individuals, and allies. International human rights organization groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. And allies, diplomatic representatives from Embassies and delegations from numerous EU countries, the US, and the UK (western ambassadors in Serbia and officials from the European Union have also joined the parade itself in the past).  And allies such as the party in power in Serbia since 2012, the SNS, and Aleksandar Vučić, the current President of Serbia.

Pride parades happen in various forms and locations worldwide, reflecting diverse contexts and local needs. But does Serbia need lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders, queers marching “For the family”? I don’t think so. I think that a family structure consisting of a heterosexual couple and their biological children is the best. The pride of Serbia is its children and the family. Don’t let them destroy Serbian values and our real families.