After 3 years of being banned, and already having a pejorative image of “that thing that is traditionally canceled” Belgrade Pride (in further text Pride) happened on the 26th October 2014, without major incidents and with the presence of approximately seven thousand heavily armed policemen. Before the actual Pride itself, there was a “Pride Week”…
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The Commodification of Pride
If one visits a Pride Parade in Western Europe or Northern America these days, one cannot avoid the impression that most aggression to be met there lies in the marketing. Not unexpectedly, Pride Parades have not been able to escape the wave of ultra-commercialization that has swept almost all public manifestations. Nowadays, Pride Parades are…