Predrag Azdejković (; born 15 July 1978) is a Serbian LGBT human rights activist, journalist, writer, film and theater producer. Azdejković is the director of
Gay Lesbian Info Center, and was the director of
Merlinka festival, until he was forced to resign after outrageous comments, offensive to the trans community, calling on social media for an elderly man who lost a testis due to police torture in
Novi Sad
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to be sent to box against
Imane Khelif
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, to which funders of the festival threatened to cancel funding, and the national TV station
Radio Television of Serbia
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to an overseeeing body of which he had been appointed against the will of journalists working there has demanded he be removed from it, but this request has been ignored.
[https://www.danas.rs/vesti/drustvo/rts-osudjuje-i-ogradjuje-se-od-komentara-predraga-azdejkovica-na-drustvenoj-mrezi-iks-trazice-od-rem-a-da-ga-razresi/] He is also the editor in chief of Serbian only gay magazine ''Optimist'', producer of several short films and documentaries and several award-winning theater plays that all are dedicated to LGBT population. He is a member of
Journalists' Association of Serbia.
Biography
Predrag Azdejković was born on 15 July 1978 in
Leonberg
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,
West Germany
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.
Until his sixth year, he lived in Germany and in 1984 he moved to Serbia, which was then part of
Yugoslavia
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.
He is a founder of
GayEcho web portal, editor of Rainbow column in Yellow Cab monthly guide, founder and editor in chief of the only Serbian gay magazine
Optimist,
and was for a time the director and selector of
International queer film festival Merlinka. He wrote for several Serbian media such as daily Sutra, Borba, web portal E-novine, weekly Vreme, monthly Status, Beton.
In 2006 he became VIP blogger at
B92 blog.
In 2006 he was included in the anthology ''Others - From patriarchal construction to alternative politics''.,
edited by
Boban Stojanović. He published a satirical book ''Time of hemorrhoids'' in 2011.
In 2017 he co-edited the book ''I have something to say to you - Return from Brisbane and other stories''
Film
Theater
References
External links
Predrag Azdejković Personal websiteB92 VIP blogGayEcho web portalInternational queer film festival MerlinkaOptimist magazine*
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1978 births
Serbian human rights activists
Serbian LGBTQ rights activists
Gay journalists
Serbian male journalists
LGBTQ film producers
Serbian LGBTQ journalists
Serbian activists
Serbian writers
Living people
Serbian editors