Queer Beograd Collective Beyond Single-Issue Activism in Serbia and the Post-Yugoslav Space

This chapter takes a look at the appearance and operation of the Belgrade-based activist group Queer Beograd Collective, which represented a transient convergence of emancipatory politics that rooted resistance to capitalism, racism, nationalism, and homophobia in local practices and experiences. The authors draw upon a variety of empirical data to examine how the idea of queerness was employed to surpass the constraints of strictly identitarian activism and move beyond the “always already” present NGO form of activist operation. This activist group struggled to appropriate the political potential of “queerness” and envisage a new, more inclusive space that would start reconstructing deeply wounded links throughout the post-Yugoslav space.