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From: "Zorica Mrsevicz" <Mrsevicz@ceu.hu> To: <women-east-west@neww.org> Date: Tue, Apr 27, 1999 6:19 PM Subject: [NEWW/WEW] SERBIA: CAMPAIGN AGAINST HOMOPHOBIA CONTINUES! i am just a modest member of this initiative, so i am forwarding it to you. Subject: SERBIA: CAMPAIGN AGAINST HOMOPHOBIA CONTINUES! Dear friends, CAMPAIGN AGAINST HOMOPHOBIA has made a decision to continue working, in spite of the current conditions, that are extremely inhospitable to the projects trying to promote the development of civic society and respect of fundamental human rights, in our case - primarily human rights of lesbians and gay men. For making such a decision the following was essential: (1) necessity to maintain the continuance of the CAMPAIGN that was the only project that succeeded to bring into focus lesbigay existence in Serbia in a serious, studious and all-inclusive way, and offer concrete, pragmatically ways of prevailing of currently very repressed position of homosexual minority. If the CAMPAIGN was stopped for an unknown period of time, it's continuance would be unsecured in a potentially better condition, so we think that we must continue with lesbigay activism in Serbia, in order to create conditions for further maintain of such activities, essential for future human rights development; (2) importance to create a balance to the current extreme national homogenization and growth of discrimination of everyone who thinks/acts not according to patriarchal stereotypes and macho consciousness, that would try to lower the current all-present intolerance. We do not believe that any radical or essential change towards the change of reception of homosexual population is possible, but we think that every - even a most minor attempt of activity on development of human rights is needed more then ever. (3) very frustrating position of people engaged in CAMPAIGN, who are currently "clay-pigeons", expecting NATO bombs, and their need to change their own position through activism, directed to the welfare of population the CAMPAIGN addresses as well Having in mind everything stated, we will continue the work on several projects, and a meeting, regarding new ideas and possibilities of activism under war conditions will take place this week. You will be constantly updated with information about plans for further activities. So far, we are continuing with: (1) finalizing Serbian edition of The Anthology and seeking fundraising for English edition, as an attempt to present to our and world public domestic lesbigay creativity in a field of science, fine arts and philosophy (2) seeking fundraising for psychological workshop of self-help, that would try to help self acceptance i prevailing of fear of accepting personal identity (3) seeking fundraising for the continuance of media monitoring, in order to provide information about the way the Serbian media precepts homosexuality under war conditions (4) web-site designing, that would contain all relevant information about lesbigay existence and current position of homosexual community in Serbia As the current projects are translated into English, I will send them to you. If you have any ideas, suggestions or critics, I am asking you to send it to me as soon as possible, and to try to help CAMPAIGN AGAINST HOMOPHOBIA continue, according to you possibilities and our basic needs for further work and development. Thank you very much for your time and consideration. Stay safe! For CAMPAIGN, executive co-ordinator deputy Dusan Maljkovic -- *ICQ 16854837 "And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, None knew so well as I: For he who shall live more lives than one More deaths than one must die." *Oscar Wilde, THE BALLAD OF READING GOAL - ** ** To unsubscribe send e-mail to <majordomo@neww.org> with a message body ** containing only: unsubscribe women-east-west ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/east/ to unsubscribe, write to <syndicate-request@aec.at> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress