Challenging Heteronormativity: Sexual Citizenship, the Family, and Social Justice in Kosovo

Similar to the situation in Montenegro (see the chapter on Montenegro in this book), the contemporary social and political landscape in Kosovo could be classified as ‘proto-anti-gender’ (Petričević, this volume). There are discourses that align with typical anti-gender frames, but none of them explicitly depict ‘gender ideology’ or the concept of ‘gender’ as a threat to the Kosovar nation, its families, or its future. However, unlike in Montenegro, where the main channel for the export of ‘anti-gender’ campaigns to Montenegro is the Serbian Orthodox Church, this dynamic cannot be replicated in Kosovo due to ethnic politics and national ideologies that construct the Serbian nation as the ‘Other’, Furthermore, the Catholic Church, another source of anti-gender campaigns in the region, is relatively unimportant in terms of framing public debates as it represents a small religious community in Kosovo.