BiH Pride 2023 Sarajevo

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Bosnian-Herzegovinian (BiH) Pride takes place on Saturday the 24th June 2023.

The Bosnian-Herzegovinian (BiH) Pride March is a protest against inequality and violations of the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex and queer people. The Pride March is our way of fighting against widespread violence. It is our way of demanding equal access to public spaces that we are entitled to as citizens.

The Pride March is among the most important and influential acts of activism that accelerate positive change and advance the quality of life of the LGBTIQ population, as evidenced by previous pride marches held in the region and other parts of the world.

This year’s slogan of the BiH Pride March is 'Family Gathering'. With this slogan we want to say that the BiH Pride March, as a protest march, is a place where every one of us can be who we truly are, in hope that we will build spaces and places outside the pride march that will be safe and supportive of sharing one's authenticity. With pride march, we want to contribute to the building of a society in which every person will belong to family gatherings and be an integrated part of them, whether we are talking about the primary family or the family that each grown up person builds for themselves. Today’s families are families with or without children (in marital and extramarital unions), single-parent families, adoptive families, families in which the guardians are grandmothers, aunts, or uncles. Families are also families with same-sex partners. They do exist and are the reality of BiH society.