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| MEDIA HEADLINES(11.06.2007) |
| (2007-06-11) |
| Last updated: 2007-06-12 17:14 EET |
“Street fights at the 2007 Gay Fest”, ZIUA daily headlines, writing that Saturday's march in downtown Bucharest ‘was marked by threats and violence’ between gay militants, far-right militants and anarchists, opposite riot police. Far from a massive show of strength, the first two camps only gathered some 300 protesters, while the 3rd hardly summoned about 20 participants. Members of the New Right Christian Forum, a nationalist organization whose principles espouse the doctrine of the interwar Far-Right Iron Guard Movement, were the first to march on downtown Bucharest in the morning, in the name of what they call normalcy.
The presence of a Christian Orthodox priest leading this crowd was expected, after an official statement by the Church termed the gay parade as an offense. Alleged masked anarchists disturbed the march and, according to newspapers, quote “screamed ‘Nazis’ in the marchers’ face, before the riot police quickly busted them”. In the afternoon, Accept, the most influential NGO to defend gay right and the right to diversity, saw its ranks partially rained out. Scores of masked people hurled stones, tomatoes and garbage cans. Journalists believe that most of the attackers were under age Bucharest soccer fans.
“The day’s score: 15 attackers arrested at the Normality March, 107 at the Diversity March”, Romania Libera concludes. The daily concludes that ‘the only people to deliver a remarkable performance were riot police officers who put a quick end to the aggressive protests of the counter protesters”. Evenimentul Zilei headlines the ‘Iron Curtain of Intolerance” and believes that ‘violence at the gay parade lands us a spot next to Russia and Poland, in contrast to Western countries’, because “the frail democratic tradition and a revived religious spirit after the fall of Communism give way to extremist attitudes”.
Cotidianul, in turn, believes that, by displaying their orientation, homosexuals must also “assume the risk that a dinosaur runs if stepping out of the TV set onto the avenue”, because “both people who ignore them and people who want to beat them up have a definite idea of what normalcy means”.
Much more laid back in its approach, Gandul says that quote “most of the gay’s problems have already been solved by the adoption of EU legislation. What remains to be done relates to the fact that, since they are allowed to live together, they should legally be entitled to share their goods when they break up or pass away, as civil conventions legalized in Hungary, Slovenia and the Czech Republic provide. GANDUL daily ends on a pragmatic note: “Why hurl eggs and garbage cans because Gheorghe wants to bequeath Vasile a flat?”
(Bogdan Matei)
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