The political homosexuals and the transgender community won’t merely scandalize their fellow citizens on the streets of Belgrade on September 7th by promoting deviance. The special mission of this outpost of Western power centers is more serious and far-reaching in its consequences. It concerns the Serbian Orthodox Church and Serbian Kosovo. Among the series of announced performances, which could be described as a carnival of moral degradation, one stands out for its literal shock value—the attempt to link the Holy Serbian Orthodox Church with the LGBTQ+ community in ways that might seem like a failed parody to many, but are being promoted here as legitimate.
THE BOARD OF SELECTED
Belgrade Pride is not only a means of promoting agendas but also a very serious business that is well-organized and structured, almost like a company, with a board of directors consisting of leaders from several non-governmental organizations primarily focused on LGBTQ rights.
Members of this board come from various organizations that have a significant influence on shaping policy and social awareness in Serbia:
Agata Milan Đurić from the NGO GETEN, an organization specializing in support for transgender individuals and gender identity issues. Among other things, on their portal and with their help, you can find information about gender reassignment, hormone therapies, and psychological support for the so-called queer community if you decide to embark on that one-way path.
Aleksandar Nikolić from the NGO National Center for Sexual and Reproductive Health – POTENT, deals with issues of sexual and reproductive health.
Jelena Vasiljević from the NGO Rainbow Ignite, an organization that supports young LGBTQI+ people through various educational and cultural projects, which have recently increasingly pushed the issue of the church and LGBTQ community members.
Goran Miletić from Civil Rights Defenders, an international organization that advocates for human rights worldwide, with a focus on protecting vulnerable communities.
Sofija Todorović from the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR), which promotes independent Kosovo, organizes joint workshops between Serbs and Albanians, promoting Albanian culture and crimes committed by Serbs against Albanians, and organizes participation in all anti-Serbian actions such as the festival “Mirdita, dobar dan.” For several years, she has advocated for the adoption of a resolution on the alleged genocide in Srebrenica.
Andrej Nosov from Heartefact, an organization that uses art and culture for social change, including so-called “activist exchanges with Albanians,” all under the sponsorship of NED.
Ana Jovanović from the NGO Commissioner for Inclusion and Diversity, which deals with inclusion and support for marginalized groups, an organization that is impossible to find on the internet to verify its existence outside of the European Union’s website where it is mentioned in the context of assistance and work with the LGBTQ community.
These organizations, along with many others participating in “Belgrade Pride,” are closely connected through common projects and goals. The common denominator is their sponsors.
- Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR):
- EEA and Norway Grants: Financial support within the “Reclaim our Civil Space” project, aimed at strengthening civil society in Serbia.
- Humanitarian Law Center: Supports initiatives related to transitional justice and reconciliation in the region.
- National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Supports programs aimed at promoting democracy and human rights, including projects related to Kosovo.
- Hartefact:
- National Endowment for Democracy (NED): A key donor funding cultural exchange programs and activities related to confronting the past, often focusing on promoting Kosovo’s independence.
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Norway: Supports projects that promote cultural cooperation and art as a means of social change.
- GETEN:
- Embassy of the Netherlands in Serbia: Supports activities focused on the rights of transgender individuals and the promotion of LGBT rights.
- Embassy of the Kingdom of Norway: Funds programs aimed at raising awareness about the rights of transgender individuals and other marginalized groups.
- National Endowment for Democracy (NED): An American organization that funds projects promoting democracy and human rights.
- Civil Rights Defenders:
- Swedish Government: One of the largest donors, through programs that support human rights and democracy worldwide.
- National Endowment for Democracy (NED): An American organization that funds projects promoting democracy and human rights.
- European Union (EU): Supports projects dealing with the rights of minorities and marginalized groups in various regions.
- SIDA (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency): A Swedish agency that funds programs for human rights and democracy.
- Rainbow Ignite:
- Embassy of the Netherlands in Serbia: Promotes LGBT rights and supports activities related to the LGBT community in Serbia.
- Embassy of the United States in Serbia: Provides financial support for programs addressing LGBT rights and promoting tolerance.
- ILGA-Europe: A European network of organizations working on LGBT rights, which funds activities aimed at improving LGBT rights in Serbia.
An important detail regarding Rainbow Ignite is that it is an informal NGO whose director, Jelena Vasiljević, is also a program coordinator at Labris – Lesbian Human Rights Organization, where she gained extensive experience in program management, community organizing, advocacy, and fundraising. Additionally, Jelena Vasiljević is involved in networks dealing with LGBT rights at the regional level, including collaboration with ERA – LGBTI Equal Rights Association for Western Balkans and Turkey, which leads to the conclusion that Rainbow Ignite is part of a broader network of LGBT NGOs. If we look at the financiers of these NGOs coordinated by Jelena Vasiljević, we will see that they are also part of the NED network.
It is particularly interesting that all these NGOs are funded by NED, which is further proof that “Belgrade Pride” is much more than just a week of pride and a parade – it is part of a well-structured movement with clear goals and significant influence.
KOSOVO OR LGBT
A deeper examination of their activities reveals that, in addition to promoting LGBT rights, their agenda also encompasses other politically sensitive topics. The best illustration of this is the work of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights and Hartefact. However, considering that this is a large network of NGOs, we can safely say that all of them are involved in this program, which is evidently funded by an organization considered a direct outpost of the CIA.
The Youth Initiative for Human Rights is one of the main actors actively working on promoting the political agenda related to the so-called Kosovo. Besides being the organizer of the Albanian festival “Mirdita, dobar dan,” this organization recently participated in the XVI Forum for Transitional Justice in Post-Yugoslav Countries, held in Pristina, organized by the Humanitarian Law Center and the Humanitarian Law Center Kosovo, which are part of the RECOM reconciliation network. At this forum, the second volume of the “Kosovo Memory Book” titled “Dignity for the Missing” (1998–2000) was officially presented, containing information about persons missing in the Kosovo war.
During the forum, discussions covered topics including institutional support for the families of the missing, civilian casualties in other conflict zones such as Ukraine and Gaza, as well as memory policies in the context of reconciliation processes in the Western Balkans. Forum participants had the opportunity to visit sites of suffering in Kosovo, hear the stories of survivors, and pay tribute to the victims, further emphasizing the political dimension of these activities.
Similarly, Hartefact has repeatedly organized “exchanges” between its activists and those from NGOs in Kosovo and Metohija. According to their website, in June, with the support of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), an exchange was organized involving ten young researchers from Serbia and Kosovo as part of the Research Visiting Program.
The groups visited Pristina, Gračanica, and Belgrade, where they met with representatives from over twenty Kosovar and Serbian organizations, as well as with professors, activists, and artists. These activities were designed to facilitate “regional cooperation” and support research focused on the “relations between Serbia and Kosovo.”
NED’s COUNTERINTELLIGENCE WORK
At first glance, it is more than clear that all these NGOs are funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Although NED presents itself as an independent non-governmental organization, recent analyses and warnings, such as those from China, indicate that this institution is, in fact, an instrument of U.S. foreign policy. NED’s goal is not just the promotion of gender and woke ideology but something much deeper—undermining the constitutional order of countries like Serbia through counterintelligence work conducted via the civil sector and a network of foreign services.
In recent years, the activities of these NGOs, such as the Youth Initiative for Human Rights and Hartefact, have been at the center of a political agenda based on unfounded accusations against the Serbian people. The persistent insistence that Serbs committed numerous crimes during the wars in the former Yugoslavia, while crimes against Serbs are minimized or entirely ignored, culminated in the adoption of a resolution on the alleged genocide in Srebrenica. This is just one step toward a broader agenda aimed at legitimizing the independence of the so-called Kosovo and portraying Serbs as the main culprits for the suffering during the 1990s.
ENVIRONMENTALISTS IN THE ORGANIZATION OF BELGRADE PRIDE
In addition to these activities, it is particularly important to highlight the role these organizations play in the context of various protests organized in Serbia. Under the guise of environmental initiatives, these NGOs, either directly or through individuals within their ranks, participate in organizing protests aimed at destabilizing the state. One of the most obvious examples is the organization Rainbow Ignite, which is directly involved in these protests. Some of its activists, such as Mile Pajić, and the NGO “Da se zna,” whose founders are suspected of dealing drugs under the guise of protecting LGBT members, are part of the organizational board of Belgrade Pride and also participate in the Youth Initiative for Human Rights. There is no doubt that this is a tightly knit network of non-governmental organizations that, while seemingly pursuing different goals, actually operate in coordination to achieve a common political agenda.
Under the guise of environmental protection and human rights, these organizations are actually engaged in aggressive lobbying for Kosovo’s independence and the systematic undermining of Serbia’s constitutional order. The protests initiated by so-called environmental movements are, in fact, serving as a platform for the activities of this network of NGOs working to destabilize the state. The inconsistency is as follows: those who present themselves as defenders of western Serbia against “corruption” and “environmental disasters” are the same individuals who, on the international stage, advocate for Kosovo’s independence and participate in activities that directly undermine Serbia’s sovereignty.
A CAMPAIGN WITH MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS
As clearly highlighted in Chinese analyses, NED uses such movements and organizations to achieve its geopolitical interests in various parts of the world, and Serbia is no exception. The support that NED provides to these NGOs is comprehensive—from financial resources to logistical backing—and all of it is directed toward one goal: destabilizing the country and changing the political system in line with Western interests. When we add to this the efforts of these organizations to impose a narrative of Serbian genocidality and the legitimacy of Kosovo’s independence, it becomes evident that this is part of a broader strategy to undermine state sovereignty.
Serbia thus finds itself under attack by a multidimensional campaign that combines the promotion of LGBT rights and environmental initiatives with a political agenda based on the idea that the Serbian state is corrupt and that a systemic change is necessary. This campaign is not just a fight for human rights; it is the instrumentalization of the civil sector to achieve foreign political interests, with one of the main objectives being the legitimization of Kosovo’s independence and the erosion of Serbian national sovereignty.
To be continued…
