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].

Portal lgbt.ba changed its web domain to lgbti.ba

Dear friends and partners of the Sarajevo Open Centre, we want to inform you that the web portal lgbt.ba, that we had launched in 2013, changed its web domain by adding the letter...
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Community events for LGBTI people you should not have missed

For the second year in a row, Sarajevo Open Centre continues to have regular meet ups with the LGBTI community mainly focused on Sarajevo region, but also open for LGBTI people...

The Lecture We Shouldn’t Miss – On Homosexuality in Yugoslavia

On our second gathering in SOC this year, with the LGBT community, this time we hosted Franko Dota, historian, doctoral student of modern and contemporary history at the Faculty...

Season Opening – New Cycle of LGBT Gatherings in SOC

This was the best Coming out workshop and I've been on each and every since 2011....

One more way of being – Happy Bisexuality Awareness Week!

“I’m bisexual. There – if I really need to say it out loud and put another label on me! I know that I have always liked guys and girls. Of course, not at the same...

LGBT.ba: Interview Saša Gavrić: From The Amendment Of The Law To Better Protection Of Lgbt People

Interview by LGBT.ba Although the Law on Prohibition of Discrimination exists since 2009, until now, no law suit for the discrimination of LGBT people has been raised. On the...