Queer Sarajevo Festival 2008 Incident
Approximately a dozen individuals were attacked at the end of the first day of the Queer Sarajevo Festival. Thirteen people, one policeman included, were reported to have been injured after large group of Islamic fundamentalists and hooligans attacked visitors to the festival. According to the organizers of the four-day event, police allowed a non-approved protest and anti-gay protestors to get too close to the venue thus endangering the participants.
The festival, organised by the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) non-governmental organization, Udruženje Q / Organization Q, opened in the Academy of Fine Arts in the centre Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The attacks forced the organizers to make the rest of the festival a private event and to cancel it a couple of days later. Although Organization Q organized public events before, this festival was the first cultural event of this kind in history of Sarajevo.
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