BalkanThemes Volume 1: Issue 3 – LGBT Rights

February 3rd, 2015

The third issue of BalkanThemes explores the work of organizations promoting LGBT-friendly dialogue in the Balkans, the struggle of three LGBT individuals in a conservative society and the state of LGBT rights across the region of the former Yugoslavia.

Albania Croatia Events Film Inequality LGBTQ Macedonia Montenegro NGO Slovenia

The Sarajevo Cable Car: Back and Forth, Tirelessly, for a Better Tomorrow

With bold steps forward, forever yearning to create something new, to go where no one has gone before—in striving to alter everything around them, mankind has altered itself.

April 6th, 2025

Ilma Garankić

Your Ethnicity Is Not Written All Over Your Face

Ajla Lović and Darko Karać are a young couple from Banja Luka. They are just like any other young couple in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Every day they try to get the best out of the society they live in and to build a life in a community that for years seems to have forgotten about its young people and their needs. But their kind of relationship is less and less common after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. They are in the so-called “mixed” relationship. Darko's parents are Christian Orthodox and Ajla's are Muslim.

March 8th, 2021

Anja Zulić