Serbian Minister Condemns 'Imported Gay Books'

Serbia's Minister of Innovation and Technological Development, Nenad Popovic, has slated a children's picture book about same-sex families published in Croatia – saying it must not be allowed into Serbia.

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Serbian Innovation Minister Nenad Popovic has sharply criticized a children’s picture book about same-sex families, published recently in Croatia, saying its possible arrival in Serbia needed to be “stopped urgently”.

“At a moment when as a state we are fighting in all ways to support birth, we import gay picture books from Croatia,” Popovic wrote on Thursday on Twitter. “This must be stopped urgently.”

У тренутку када се као држава боримо на све начине да подржимо рађање, из Хрватске нам увозе геј сликовнице! То под хитно треба зауставити! Морамо да станемо на пут онима који желе да нас убеде да је у реду да “РОКО ИМА ДВЕ МАМЕ, А АНА ДВОЈИЦУ ТАТА”.
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— Nenad Popović (@npopovicSNP) May 2, 2018

The Serbian daily Blic wrote on May 1 that a Serbian version of the book would soon be published.

Popovic wrote in his reaction on Thursday on Twitter that “We need to stop those who want to convince us that it’s OK for ‘Roko to have two moms, and Ana two dads’ [an example from the book]”.

Homophobic attitudes remain deeply entrenched in Balkan countries where polls show most people strongly oppose gay marriage.