#sofia pride

[eurovision-facts]

Eurovision Fact #498:

VICTORIA, Bulgaria's 2021 representative, is the first Bulgarian Eurovision entrant to perform at Sofia Pride, a human rights even in Bulgaria promoting LGBTQ+ visibility.

[Sources]

Participants of Rotterdam 2021: VICTORIA, Eurovision.tv.

About the Pride, Sofiapride.org.

"Bulgaria’s VICTORIA will headline Sofia Pride 2021…with North Macedonia’s Vasil also performing," wiwibloggs.com.

[fuglyselfie]

shots from Pride

[iyas-adventures]

София Прайд 2022 - “Горди сме”

Паметник на Съветската армия, София | 18.06.2022

Sofia Pride 2022 - “We’re Proud”

Monument to the Soviet Army, Sofia, Bulgaria | 18.06.2022

[balkanche]

Sofia Pride: How and why Bulgaria legalised homosexuality in the 1960s - Emerging Europe

This Pride month, the Bulgarian LGBT+ community is experiencing an increase in homophobic attacks and bullying. Many years ago however, the

The National Musical Theatre organised a march in the capital to demonstrate against this unfair treatment. During the event, which has been described by some as Bulgaria’s first-ever Pride parade, the men wore extravagant clothing, some dressed as women, and alongside some Sofia locals, marched from the city’s Central Mineral Baths to Gorna Banya, one of the best districts of the city, at the time largely reserved for the communist elite.

Needless to say, the Bulgarian Communist Party was not best pleased with this show of free will and accused the men of “undisguised manifestation against the people’s power”. The Minister of Interior at the time, Diko Dikov, threatened them: “We will destroy all who are like you.”

The 1963 march led to a group trial year later of 26 men for practicing homosexuality, many of whom were high profile individuals, including actor Georgi Partsalev, pop singer Emil Dimitrov and his rumoured partner, songwriter Vasil Andreev, poet and translator Borislav Georgiev, and other actors, film directors, and dancers – all of whom were in the public eye.

[notenoughcommonsense]

So the Bulgarian news reported Sofia Pride a few days ago and i’ve been thinking.

Since Bulgaria is an Eastern Europian country and a post-communist one to boot, getting pride this big is MASSIVE progress that would not have been possible like 2 years ago. 

That being said it’s still comparably small and so walking in on the news crew filming is very very easy. Most citizens watch the news from one of 2 channels: Nova or BTV.

So what of I just- popped in the backround. Implicitly come out to the whole fucking country. All im saying is why not?

[mycoolstoryworld]

Happy Pride Month!

A friend compared my parents’ cluelessness to me being gay with Dr.Doofenshmirtz seeing Peri the platypus... so I had to make a comics

[xsunflowerkid]

people may hate you for being different and not living by society’s standards, but deep down, they wish they had the courage to do the same.

[lunmos]

Sofia Pride, 2019