Engaging the community

Sarajevo Open Centre in addition to its advocacy efforts and activities in the field of LGBTI rights, continues to work directly with the LGBTI community in order for people to socialize and empower themselves, as well as learn about their legal rights.

We have been working even more intensively through various series of social gatherings in order to empower, share information and provide legal and other counselling.

  • Work with the LGBTI community – we continue to gather LGBTI community in a safe place. Through these social gatherings we host activists and speakers from the region and Europe.
  • Web portal – LGBTI.ba is a BiH virtual space, intended for the broader public, as well as for the LGBTI community, which offers current multimedia content on the life of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people but also information on LGBTI culture, public policy and law.
  • Legal aid and counseling – LGBTI people are provided with place and people they can turn to in cases of discrimination and / or violence based on sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics. Through this service we provide support in the process of implementation of their rights through free legal advice.
  • Psychological counseling and peer counseling – Sarajevo Open Centre in collaboration with specialist partner organization, liaise between LGBTI people that come to us and sensitized psychologists, by establishing contacts between LGBTI people who come for a talk, and who would like to deepen the discussion or seek psychological counseling. For more information on this service, do not hesitate to write to [email protected].

LGBTI community events: Before the Festival Merlinka – Lecture “Drag 101”

New year has started and January, which had a very active start, is already behind us. Prior to the Film Festival Merlinka, we had an amazing community event with Ivan Pavlic,...

Rainbow October in SOC – gathering for LGBTI community

October brought us a lot of socializing, talks, workshops, actions, but also one of the last LGBTI parties this year, organized by Sarajevo Open Centre. November brought even...

School of LGBTI activism II module with Zoe Gudovic – On lesbian movement and street actions

School of LGBTI activism is rolling on very well! After the first module where participants gained information on development of Queer history and sexuality through the ages, as...

Movie screening on the occasion of Bi Visibility Day

On 23rd of September, Bi Visibility Day that is observed as one of the important days in LGBTI+ Calendar, Sarajevo Open Centre organized a movie screening, within its gatherings...

First School of LGBTI activism has started

Just as we have announced, Sarajevo Open Centre has started its first School of LGBTI activism in September 2016. With around twenty participants of the School, from Sarajevo and...

On (lesbian) feminism with Biljana Ginova

New season of LGBTI people gatherings has started After numerous events organized for the LGBTI community, in the period January-July, it was time to open the new season of LGBTI...