Fear of Violence Builds for Bosnian Gay Pride
September 22, 2008 by James Hipps
Bosnia’s first-ever gay festival opens this week amid fears of violence, with homophobia overriding the usual divisions among the country’s wartime foes – Muslims, Serbs and Croats.
The Muslim majority is particularly upset about the four-day Queer Festival because it will open in Sarajevo on Wednesday – during the holy month of Ramadan.
Many others, including members of various ethnic political parties, have gone as far as declaring homosexuality an illness and the behavior deviant.
Read the rest at ekathimerini.com.
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