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Sexual Minorities in Croatia
Kolovratníková, Anna ; Žíla, Ondřej (advisor) ; Vasiljevićová, Dajana (referee)
This work aims to explain the situation of sexual minorities in Croatia and the city of Rijeka, in particular. Croatia (and the countries of the Western Balkans in general) are known for placing an emphasis on traditional values, faith in God, and for certain conservatism and antipathy towards members of sexual minorities. Its main cause is rooted in the Croatian nationalist regime of Franjo Tuđman in the 1990s, which was supported by the Catholic Church. The situation and mentality towards sexual minorities has been improving since the fall of Tuđman's regime. Croatia has adopted laws that protect LGBTQI people and homosexual couples can obtain a legal-registered partnership. The LGBTQ community is coming into its own identity continuously, there are gay pride events organised regularly and there are numerous organizations devoted to the activism in this field. My research confirms that the lesbian community in Rijeka is content with its life and identity; it is active and it does not feel discriminated in the private sphere. On the other hand, the respondents would like to have an option to adopt children and eliminate some of the inherent intolerance in Croatian society which, according to them, results from persisting prejudices and from traditional conception of gender roles of men and women.
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