Sunday, they say, is a day for family.

This Sunday, I'm going to lunch with a family that has everything a family should have: people who love and care for one another, who worry together and overcome hardships together, who celebrate every small and great victory side by side.

The only essential difference between this family and any other is that the law does not recognize it.

That difference appears on every document this state issues. In hospitals, inheritance law, tax forms—every place where the law decides who belongs to whom, and who counts as family.

Imagine a table set with hot soup and a traditional Sunday meal. Friends, comrades, and loved ones gather around it. Glasses clink, cutlery rattles, conversations overlap, and someone says, "Could you pass the bread?"

As always, we talk about what it means to fight for equal rights in a country where people keep telling us that "now is not the right time." We joke about what the police will be wearing at the next protest—will it be full riot gear again? We reflect on the attacks our community has endured this year, each one becoming another page in our shared family album.

Once again, we remind each other why it matters to stay in the streets, why our determination has never faded despite everything. We speak about something fundamental: this struggle belongs to all of us. Rights have never been won solely by those who were denied them. We gather because we know that justice is never a private matter.

There is something instantly recognizable in that determination. The same stubborn refusal to wait for permission to exist is what has driven everything unfolding across Serbia in recent months.

The fight for freedom is rarely about a single issue. More often, it is united by one common principle: dignity, and the right to be recognized by the law as fully human.

Equality cannot exist without solidarity.

We advocate for the legal recognition of same-sex unions because we see no reason why the love and commitment shared by two people should be worth less in the eyes of the law.

No one loses when someone else gains rights. We all gain, because a society that protects the rights of minorities ultimately protects the rights of everyone.

And some families would finally no longer have to explain that they exist.

Sunday is a day for family.

For every family.