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From a Sarajevo assembly member's Facebook post to Milorad Dodik's public remarks, Bosnian courts have issued a string of rulings this year finding anti-LGBTQ speech illegal. It's slow, but it's building something rare in the region: precedent.
Sarajevo is one of Europe's most atmospheric capitals — and one of its most complicated for LGBTQ+ visitors. Here's a candid, researched guide to the city where East meets West in the Balkans.
On the same June Saturday, North Macedonia's eighth Skopje Pride and Bosnia's seventh Sarajevo march took to the streets — smaller than the mega-parades to the west, and arguably braver for it.
North Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina hold their Pride parades on the very same day this year. The shared date is a coincidence of calendars — but the message it sends across the region is anything but accidental.
Bosnia's seventh Pride Week runs June 13–21 with film, drag, workshops and a citywide invitation to hang rainbow colors from your balcony — a quiet act of solidarity in a region facing rising extremism.
As Sarajevo Pride Week opens, Bosnia's queer community is marking real legal firsts and absorbing real setbacks in the same year. A look at where rights actually stand across the country's divided institutions — the progress, the rollbacks, and the gap between Sarajevo and Banja Luka.
Bosnia and Herzegovina's Pride March returns to Sarajevo on June 20, anchoring a Pride Week of concerts, film, drag and queer-history walks. Here is what is planned and why this march matters.
A practical, honest guide to Sarajevo for queer travelers — what's improved since the first Pride in 2019, where the bars actually are, and what to know about safety in a city still building its queer infrastructure.
From Tirana in late May to Podgorica in early October, eight Balkan capitals will host Pride marches this year — each with its own political weather. Here is what to expect, and where.
A cantonal court has upheld the conviction of a former MP who called for LGBTQ+ people to be 'isolated and kept away from children.' It took 13 years for Bosnia's anti-discrimination law to produce its first verdict on sexual orientation — and now that verdict has survived appeal.
