Zagreb Pride

Zagreb Pride’s values and what they mean to us:

Queer-feminism – a movement that originates from postmodern feminist theory and queer theory. Queer-feminism is a critique to the LGBT movement and the polarization between liberal and radical feminism. It advocates for the deconstruction of the patriarchy through a wide front and collaboration of various underprivileged social classes.

Anti-fascism – a movement of active opposition and action against every form of fascism and ideologies or movements complementary to it, those that are based on predominance of one (e.g. ethnic, national, religious, gender, racial…) group over another: above all Nazism, the Ustasha movement, apartheid, imperialism, machoism, heterosexism and militarism.

Equality – implies equal opportunities for achieving all human rights in cultural, social, economic and political senses, and equal benefit from achieved results, regardless of gender and/or sex categories.

Self-determination – implies the right of every person to identify and define or change their identity regardless of sex, gender, sex and gender identities, sexual orientation and overall sexuality, nationality, and ethnic affiliation, in relation to their own body or social status, as long as that right doesn’t violate rights of other people.

Solidarity – implies endeavor to establish commitment, mutual cooperation or support within Zagreb Pride, as with other individuals, groups and larger bodies, especially in conditions of oppression, exploitation or any other form of violence and social injustice.

Secularity – commitment to the principle of separation of state institutions and persons authorized to represent the state from religious institutions and religious representatives. Commitment to secularity also involves the stance that public activities and decisions, especially political, have to be free of any religious beliefs and/or practices, and that persons of different religious affiliations are equal before the law and aren’t regulated in their public activity based on their religion. Secularity enables the balance of every person’s right to their own religious affiliation, as well as the right to be free of religion.

Antimilitarism – active opposition to every form of military action which includes depriving human rights and exaltation of the army, influence of nationalism and the macho-militaristic spirit to overall social and political lives.