Predrag Azdejković

{{short description|Serbian gay activist and journalist}}

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| name = Predrag Azdejković

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| caption = Predrag Azdejkovic at Youth and violence forum

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1978|07|15|df=y}}

| birth_place = Leonberg, West Germany

| nationality = Serbian

| known_for = Merlinka festival, Gay Lesbian Info Center

| occupation = LGBT rights activist, journalist, producer, SNS party member

| awards = Crystal Award (2010){{cite web|url=http://azdejkovic.com/b92-dodeljena-kristalna-nagrada/|title=Dodeljena Kristalna nagrada|publisher=B92}}
Award for the most innovative approach in promoting the rights of discriminated groups (2013){{cite web|url=https://www.kurir.rs/stars/868177/azdejkovic-dobio-nagradu-za-doprinos-osnazivanju-lgbt|title=Azdejković dobio Nagradu za doprinos osnaživanju LGBT!|publisher=Kurir}}

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Predrag Azdejković ({{langx|sr|Предраг Аздејковић}}; 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 to be sent to box against Imane Khelif, to which funders of the festival threatened to cancel funding,https://nova.rs/vesti/drustvo/i-gete-institut-se-ogradjuje-od-azdejkovicevog-komentara-preispitacemo-podrsku-festivalu-merlinka/https://vreme.com/drustvo/azdejkovic-se-povukao-bez-kajanja-merlinka-saopstava-da-je-pod-stresom/https://www.danas.rs/kultura/predrag-azdejkovic-ostavka/ and the national TV station Radio Television of Serbia 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, West Germany.

Until his sixth year, he lived in Germany and in 1984 he moved to Serbia, which was then part of Yugoslavia.{{cite web|url=http://www.b92.net/zivot/licni_prostor.php?nav_id=450243|title=Peđa Azdejković - Da se ne lažemo, ja sam sladak|publisher=B92}} 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,{{cite web|url=http://www.optimist.rs|title=Optimist|publisher=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.{{cite web|url=http://azdejkovic.com/index.php?cat=19|title=Predrag Azdejković - Autorski tekstovi|publisher=azdejkovic.com}} In 2006 he became VIP blogger at B92 blog.{{cite web|url=http://blog.b92.net/blog/563/Predrag%20Azdejkovi%C4%87/|title=B92 blog - Predrag Azdejković|publisher=B92}} In 2006 he was included in the anthology Others - From patriarchal construction to alternative politics.,{{cite web|url=http://gayecho.com/books/?p=175|title=Drugi - Od patrijarhalne konstrukcije do alternativne politike|date=April 2014 |publisher={{ill|Queeria|sh}}}} edited by Boban Stojanović. He published a satirical book Time of hemorrhoids in 2011.{{cite book|url=https://www.knjizare-vulkan.rs/domace-price-i-pripovetke/14303-vreme-hemoroida|title=Vreme hemoroida - Predrag Azdejković|year=2011 |publisher=Red Box |isbn=978-8686599247}} In 2017 he co-edited the book I have something to say to you - Return from Brisbane and other stories{{cite web|url=https://issuu.com/predragazdejkovic/docs/imam_nesto_da_ti_kazem|title=Imam nešto da ti kažem - Povratak iz Brizbejna i druge priča|publisher=Optimist}}

=Film=

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! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year

! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Film

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2015Just be safe and soundProducer
2016When I come out... be thereCo-producer
2018Warm filmCo-producer
2020RoxandaProducer
2021Best Men and BridesmaidsDirector
2021AnimusProducer
2021WastelandProducer
2021Fear from butterflies (TV movie)Producer
2024Warm FilmProducer

=Theater=

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! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year

! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Theater play

! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Notes

2014Merlinka's ConfessionProducer
2018... And the othersProducer
2019Fear from butterfliesProducer
2022FemkanjeProducer
2023Four walls - Tragicomedy about COVIDProducer

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