Gays test boundaries in macho Balkans
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Dado and Damir, 26-year-old Bosnian men, have been in a gay relationship for four years and are planning to move in together, but they are still too afraid to hold hands in public.
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For the Record: 17 November 2004, Wednesday. Bulgarians have been placed sixth in a survey of sexual activity among people from 41 countries globally.
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He has been a Yugoslav and a Serb and worked under  Tito and Milosevic. So it makes  sense that the place where Goran Paskaljevic really likes to work is Ireland.
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There is great excitement in the Balkan state as its people prepare to welcome world leaders, reports Laura Sheeter.
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BELGRADE, Aug 18 (IPS) - Countries across the Balkans are boosting tourism  to build recovery from communism or the wars that broke former  Yugoslavia.
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In this poor Balkan country set to join the European Union in January, brazen slayings _ along with gang shootouts and car and apartment bombings _ have almost become part of the fabric of everyday life.Comment
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A Serb returns to his home in Croatia to find life is a struggle against local discrimination.
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Since emerging from the shadow of the prudish Soviet Union a decade ago, sexual minorities have fought to gain a foothold in Russian society. But Russian lesbians now say they are facing growing pressure from authorities to return to the closet.
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MITROVICA, Serbia  - There are some new faces in the Serb-controlled slice of northern Kosovo, the breakaway province where 2 million Albanians will declare independence from Serbia within days.
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This is what love has done to Wendy Brown: She's lost weight, resumed smoking and all but decided to move to the Balkans to be with her Albanian fiance. And each night, she spends hours in her cozy Baltimore apartment mingling online with strangers who are equally fixated on the same topic: getting...
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TETOUAN, Morocco -- In the Arab world, this hilly North African city is about as far as you can get from Iraq. But for many young men here, the call to join what they view as a holy war resonates loudly across the 3,000-mile divide.
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SKOROBISTE, Serbia  - In the sweltering heat of the Balkan summer, the stray dogs cannot even muster a bark as a NATO foot patrol makes its way through the hilltop village of Skorobiste in southwest Kosovo.
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Indonesia&#39;s gay film festival faced  violent opposition in its early years.
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What it's like to grow up gay in Jamaica, where bigotry is widespread.
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It's not the sex they object to. It's the focus on straight males. In Sex Drive Daily.
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Â· East Europeans 'pose integration challenge'Â· Councils urged to rethink strategies on diversity
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While state after state in the United States closes its doors to the prospect of same-sex marriage, lesbian and gay relationships have been gaining acceptance in the rest of the world.Comment