Sarajevo Pride

Sarajevo Pride, or Bosnian-Herzegovinian Pride, is the LGBT pride parade in the city of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which first took place in 2019.[1]

Sarajevo Pride in 2019.

History

The country's first pride parade was held on 9 September 2019 in Sarajevo.[2] An estimated 2,000 people marched in the first pride parade of Bosnia and Herzegovina, making the country the last former Yugoslav nation to hold a pride event.[3]

A second pride parade was supposed to take place on 23 August 2020, starting at 12:00h in Sarajevo,[4] but it was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[5] The third pride parade in Sarajevo took place on 14 August 2021.[6]

List of parades
# Year Dates Motto Estimated attendance
1st 2019 September 9 Door please! ("Ima izać'!") 2,000
2020 (postponed) August 23 No life within four walls ("Nije život četiri zida")
2nd 2021 August 14 Resistance from the Margin ("Otpor sa margine")[7]
3rd 2022 June 25[8]

See also

References
  1. "Lejla Huremović: Today we stop being invisible | Povorka Ponosa". Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  2. "Solidarno za slobodu – slobodu okupljanja, slobodu identiteta i slobodu ljubavi! | Povorka Ponosa". Retrieved 8 September 2019.
  3. Mladen, Lakic (8 September 2019). "Bosnian Capital Hosts First-Ever Pride March". Balkan Insight. Sarajevo.
  4. "The Second BiH Pride March Announced: Passing Through the Cities of Bosnia and Herzegovina because "No life within four walls" | Povorka Ponosa". Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  5. "Zbog koronavirusa odgođena druga Bh. povorka ponosa u Sarajevu". Klix.ba (in Bosnian). Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  6. L.K. (14 August 2021). "Uz suze, smijeh i pjesmu u Sarajevu uspješno okončana treća Bh. povorka ponosa" (in Bosnian). Klix.ba. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  7. "Let us resist from the margins with the BH Pride March, in Sarajevo on the 14th of August | Povorka Ponosa".
  8. "Instagram". www.instagram.com.
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