Countering homophobia in the media
Kosovar media outlets are discriminating against the LGBTQ+ community.
The past has proven that misreporting of LGBTQ+ issues has the power to take violence beyond the virtual space.
Dardan Hoti
Dardan Hoti has ten years of experience in journalism, covering mainly human rights, with a particular focus on LGBT+ rights. In 2013, he won the Journalism Poverty Prize, awarded by the United Nations Kosovo Team. Between 2014 and 2021, Dardan was a board member of the Kosovo Journalists Association. He is the researcher and producer of the documentary “As I Was Looking Above, I Could See Myself Underneath”, exploring the lives of LGBTQ persons in Kosovo. In 2018, he was one of the beneficiaries of K2.0’s Human Rights Journalism Fellowship