Since marches or protests though, tend to block traffic and impend movement, and therefore the freedom to do business...there is no automatic right to march or take over streets at any given time. Therefore municipalities (including DC) will issue permits to protest or march--in order balance one groups rights to speak, and peaceably assemble, vs. other peoples rights to move and do business.
If sodomy is illegal in Serbia (like it was in most-all civilized countries until very recently) I do not believe a group glorifying in and pushing for illegal activities...really has a right to protest or march...at any time.
Practically every homosexual parade or march in the USA and Europe is at least R-rated....with open displays of sadomasochism, sex acts, kissing drag queens and partial and full nudity, all of which are against public decency laws most places, so OF COURSE a city has a right to ban such a disgusting parade of perversion.
I believe Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Adams et al.--even all the Founders, would agree with me.
Under well-settled First Amendment law, any laws regulating the times and places of demonstrations must be content-neutral. Otherwise, the City Council in D.C. could ban all anti-Obama demonstrations and permit only pro-Obama demonstrations.
If sodomy is illegal in Serbia (like it was in most-all civilized countries until very recently) I do not believe a group glorifying in and pushing for illegal activities...really has a right to protest or march...at any time.
How do laws ever change if people can't demonstrate to seek changes? When segregation was legal in Alabama, people demonstrated against it. Should those demonstrations have been banned?
Practically every homosexual parade or march in the USA and Europe is at least R-rated....with open displays of sadomasochism, sex acts, kissing drag queens and partial and full nudity, all of which are against public decency laws most places, so OF COURSE a city has a right to ban such a disgusting parade of perversion.
I doubt the gays in Serbia were planning any such activities, and the government could have banned them without prohibiting the march altogether. And as for what goes on at gay pride marches in the U.S., I haven't seen many posts on FR seeking to ban Spring Break in Florida or Mardis Gras in New Orleans, both of which feature at least as much open sexuality as gay pride marches.