The third edition of the GayFest festival of Romanian homosexuals opens in Bucharest on June 4. The event is dedicated to the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) community in the country and their supporters and friends. It will host a series of thematic films and exhibitions, peaking with a gay parade in downtown Bucharest on Saturday, June 9.

The full program of the event as well as information about the Festival can be found on the website of the Accept Association, where it is specified that the event is not a threat to the values of family and society in Romania.

Last year’s edition of the Festival sparked a series of incidents as thugs attacked the gay parade and the far-right movement Noua Dreapta (the New Right) as well as representatives of the Romanian Orthodox Church attepted to prevent the march, calling it “a threat to the morality of public life, to the sacred institution of the family and a danger for the formation of the young generations”.