After a book-reading public event, Dragoslava Barzut, a lesbian writer and feminist activist went the nearest café with three other lesbian friends from the lesbian football team. They were relaxed & singing in the small cafe with live music, filled with around 40 people altogether. After midnight men came in and started to beat them, screaming and cursing ‘Lesbians Lesbians!’.

Barzut noted a ‘thin and small’ waitress helped the women escape by intervening in the attack and locking the women in a bathroom until the police arrived.

Representatives from the Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights said they will file the case as a hate crime. Read More via Labris