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3 unusual facts about Jovan Ćirilov


Jovan Ćirilov

As a member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, he was the first person who publicly called for decriminalisation of male same-sex relations ("sodomy laws") in the 1980s.

Writer of columns in NIN magazine, (named "Word of the week", since 1986 to this day), two columns a week in the Blic newspaper, (named "Pozorištarije" and "With hands in pockets") and theater news in the Ludus theatre newspapers.

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In the Đuro Salaj Theatre they performed in the play Bitnici pevaju (Beatniks Are Singing), in which actors Dragan Nikolić, Miša Janketić, Duško Golumbovski, and others performed the poetry of American beatniks translated by Jovan Ćirilov.



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