Queer Sarajevo Festival 2008
Public queer festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Queer Sarajevo Festival was the first public queer festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina, organized by Organization Q in September 2008 in Sarajevo.[1][2][3] The Festival is remembered as the first public coming out of LGBT*IQA persons in BiH.[4] It became the center of interest of Bosnian-Herzegovinian, regional and international public and media after the escalation of violence against Festival participants and journalists on the day of the opening.[5][6][7] The Festival was closed for the public two days after its opening, due to counter-reactions of general public, political representatives and as the organizers, journalists and Festival participants had been physically attacked by Islamic religious extremists and nationalists.[8][9]