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Bosnia and Herzegovina

Overview

Bosnia-Herzegovina decriminalised homosexuality in 1991. . There are no dedicated academic institutions or university level departments that are directly dealing with LGBT. Up until 2012, before it discontinued it, the Sarajevo State University offered a two year Masters program in gender studies, through which LGBTtopics werealso covered. Sarajevo has a thriving Civil Society which works on LGBT and it hosts the annual International since 2013. .

  • by ILGA Europe [in English].
  • by ILGAEurope[in English].

LGBT map of Bosnia & Herzegovina

Resources

Books
  • Bilić, B. (2016)..(Palgrave studies in European political sociology).Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Bilić, B., Radoman, M. (2019).. Cham, Switzerland:PalgraveMacmillan.
  • Sremac. S., Ganzevoort R. R. (eds.) (2015). . Leiden: Brill.
Periodicals
Repositories
  • Association Q [in Bosnian].
  • Sarajevo Open Centre(SoC) - includesdedicated to topics ofgender, sex, sexuality, patriarchy and heteronormativity, series, series, series, , ofLGBTQand gender issues in thenational media, by SoC [in English, Bosnian].
Data and statistics
  • . FRA Europe [in English].
  • , includes , ILGA Europe -a world survey of sexual orientation laws +[in English].
Reports
  • ILGA Europe, available from 2011 onwards [in English].
  • . Amnesty International [in English].
  • .European Commission [in English].
  • [in English].
  • [in English].
  • [in English].
  • .World Bank Group, September 2018[in English].
News portals
  • - a BH virtual platform set up by coveringcurrent multimedia content about the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersexual people, as well as LGBTI culture, public policies and rights[in Bosnian].
Audio-visual
  • - a documentary movie about the intersection of gender, sexuality, war and security in Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina during and after the collapse of Yugoslavia through storytelling. This documentary movie presents a collection of personal testimonials and political accounts of 12 feminist, anti-war and LGBTI*QA pioneer activists, who have shared their stories on solidarity and their contribution to feminist, anti-war and LGBT*IQA movement in these countries [English subtitles].
  • - Production: Organization Q / Documentary movie / 2009 / 32’41” [English subtitles].
  • - Production: Okvir / Documentary movie / 2014 / 3’42” / Short documentary depicts a process of ‘’Coming Out’’ street art installation organized in Sarajevo by a group of queer persons across BiH, France, Austria and Greece [English subtitles].
  • - Production: Okvir / 2013 / Short documentary movie / 14’41” / Paticipate Project 2015 / Short documentary movie on LGBT*IQA activism in BiH [English subtitles].
Digital libraries and archives
  • [in Bosnian].
  • .Interview withAdnanLugonić,playwright. We must dedicate ourselves seriously to the problems of theLGBTcommunity[in Bosnian].
  • .Interview withJasminkaDžumhur: On adopting a new law that will regulate homosexual relationships[in Bosnian].
  • - The archive contains documentaries, interviews, the timeline of LGBT*IQA her/history or important events and persons in the region and personal stories [inBosnian and English].
Organisations
  • -committed to the promotion and protection of culture, identity and humanrights ofLGBTIQIApersons[in Bosnian].
  • is the first registeredorganisationin Bosnia-Herzegovina to work onLGBTIQissues. It works towards challenging societal prejudices againstLGBTQpersons throughorganisingevents, and policy-related research [in Bosnian].
  • ​- an association that promotes the strengthening of the rights of LGBT peopleand women's rights through feminist theory and practice[inBosnian].
  • (SoC) works towards promotingLGBTQIrights. It is an independent, feminist and civil societyorganisation. It also works on gender-related issues. It is one of the biggest and most active non-Governmental Institutions to promoteLGBTQIand Gender rights in the country.SoC hosts its ownlibrary and borrowing of books is for free.They run their own media portal[in Bosnian and English].
  • -an independent, non-political and non-profit organization promoting active citizenship through political education and advocating for human rights of marginalized groups through equality policies[inBosnian].
Other resources
  • - anannualInternational Queer Film Festival held in Sarajevo [in English].