Desislava Petrova

Desislava Petrova

Country

Bulgaria

Birth - Death

1980 -

Occupation

Activist

Description

Gay rights activist and former president of BGO Gemini - Bulgaria's largest LGBT rights organization. Considered the first publicly visible lesbian in Bulgaria. Since Jan 2010 she works as coordinator of the “Campaigns and Communications Programme” of the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee – an independent non-governmental organisation for the protection of human rights.

Further Reading/Research

• http://bnr.bg/en/post/100160687/conversations-with-desislava-aka-the-soldier

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