Bosnia's embattled LGBTQ community will defy threats of violence to hold the Balkan country's first ever pride parade this weekend. - NBCOUT
Even so, the backlash against the parade has been considerable in this deeply conservative nation, which has entrenched ethnic divisions and nationalist sentiments that fueled the 1992-95 conflict and are still holding Bosnia back.
The organizers — more than a dozen activists from all sides of Bosnia's ethnic divide — have received support from many prominent figures in Bosnia, fellow activists in the region and from U.S. and EU officials in the country who have promised to take part. Though any form of discrimination is banned by law, gay people in Bosnia face widespread harassment and hate attacks that are rarely prosecuted. Culibrk, the activist, claimed the discrimination includes preventing gays from donating blood in hospitals.
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