About 200 People March In Bucharest Gay Pride Parade

About 200 people started out on a gay pride march Saturday afternoon in Romania’s capital city Bucharest, organized by "Accept", an NGO defending the rights of sexual minorities.

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Participants are singing and dancing, said love knows no prejudice and added they came to Gay Fest to have fun.

Ambassadors to Romania of Great Britain, the Netherlands and Sweden joined the gay pride parade in support of gay rights.

Organizers expected 500 people to attend the gay pride march, which “Accept” is organized annually at the end of Gay Fest, a week marked by cultural events and debates meant to raise awareness on the LGBT minority. Representatives of the "Accept" organization said LGBTs in Romania continue to be discriminated against, harassed and considered second-rate citizens, which is unacceptable in a European country that claims to observe human rights.

Previous gay pride parades in Bucharest ended with violent incidents. This year’s parade and two other marches “for normality” will be supervised by 700 gendarmes and 400 police.

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