The Europride parade was celebrated in Belgrade on Saturday to the displeasure of the government and authorities.
Around 1,000 participants demonstrated in sometimes pouring rain for the rights of homosexuals, lesbians and other members of the LGBTIQ* community.
The police created a secured corridor along the march route for the parade.
In this way, she kept outnumbered far-right and ultra-clerical counter-demonstrators.
Originally, the rainbow parade should have gone through half of the city center.
But the Ministry of the Interior deviated from the practice of previous years and banned the event.
On Saturday, the Serbian Administrative Court rejected a complaint by the organizers against the Interior Ministry's decision.
Prosecutors threatened participants in a potentially "illegal demonstration" with draconian fines.
The organizers informed the Ministry of the Interior about a significantly shortened route.
The authorities did not respond until the parade began.
Pride marches have been held in Belgrade since 2014 without incident.
This year, Belgrade was the first city in south-eastern Europe to be awarded the right to host a Europride.
Several MEPs and European politicians attended.
At the end of August, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced that the Pride would be canceled or postponed.
Since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, the right-wing nationalist has oriented himself more closely to Russia than before.
In this sense, he also seeks closeness to the ultra-conservative and pro-Russian Serbian Orthodox Church.
Right-wing extremists and clerical circles have held so-called anti-Pride processions in Belgrade in recent weeks.