I attended Serbia’s second gay pride event on a lovely autumn Sunday on 10 October, along with 1000 other marchers, 5000 police, a zillion members of the press, and an orchestrated mob of disaffected youth in search of distraction and destruction. Walking through a masked gang of teenagers carrying large steel pins and rocks, I thought most of them looked a bit lost. I asked one which street we were on, and he was quite helpful; then he ran off to wave a stick randomly and shout at the police. The official access …