After announcing that she was gay, a Sarajevo student says she was verbally abused by a librarian in the Philosophy faculty while her companion was physically attacked by a nurse.
BalkinInsight: Lamija Topcagic, a student of philosophy in Sarajevo, says she was verbally abused by the faculty librarian during an argument over whether she could donate blood, a gay association Okvir announced on Thursday.
During a voluntary blood donation at the faculty on April 19, students were given forms to fill in before they donated blood.
Three students, Lamija Topcagic, Nedzmina Seta and Amar Numanovic, noted that in the section entitled “Person who should not give blood”, it included “persons who have occasional or permanent sexual contacts with homosexuals”.
Okvir said that since the students considered this wording discriminatory, they went to speak to the Dean who said the faculty had nothing to do with the content of the forms.
Meanwhile a male nurse reportedly physically attacked Amar Numanovic and a librarian in the faculty called all three students “drug addicts” and “failed students”.
When Topcagic told the librarian she was not a drug addict but a lesbian, and the form for blood donation violated her rights, he answered: “If you were my child, I would kill you instantly,” and continued with other insults, Okvir said in a press release.








