Pride and (gay) prejudice
The rise in syphilis cases isn't Serbian gay community's biggest problem.
|2023.02.22
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Since the release of the data on the increase of infected individuals in Serbia, the media has fallen into the well-known pattern of producing clickable headlines.
You don’t visit local organizations working to prevent STIs because somebody might recognize you — you even convince yourself they would judge you.
Everything is in order now, but what will you do when you grow old and there is nobody there to tell or complain to?
The disease that has plagued almost all societies in the Balkans for years is actually homophobia.
Vukoman Stranjančević
Vukoman Stranjančević studied the history of literature, receiving his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the Department of General Literature and Literary Theory at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade. After completing his studies, he was engaged in the visual analysis of feminist literature, while organizing and coordinating a literature festival focused on LGBTQ+ rights. He works in the field of cultural and media project development.
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This story was originally written in Serbian.