"Over the Rainbow to Europe" explores the numerous political, social, and cultural implications of the increasingly relevant symbolic connection between Europeanisation, LGBT activism, LGBT rights, and non-heteronormativity. In the aftermath of aggressive ethnonationalism, this conceptual blend produces multiple layers of differentiation—between the countries of the former Yugoslavia and the European Union, but also within the post-Yugoslav space and among regional activist “scenes.” The intertwining of Europeanisation and its ideologically charged notions of European modernity, freedom, and democracy on one hand, and the “gay struggle” on the other, has a notably ambivalent effect: on the one hand, this connection delivers a heavy blow to the repressive order of patriarchal gender relations by pulling “non-normative” sexual identities out of the strictly private realm; on the other hand, it disrupts the functioning of activist initiatives at the local level and alienates the struggle for non-heteronormative emancipation from the domestic political arena. 263 pages.