This survey was conducted to betterunderstand the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender,and intersex (LGBTI) people in seven countries inSoutheastern Europe: five in the Western Balkans - Albania,Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, andMontenegro; as well as two European Union (EU) memberstates, Croatia and Slovenia. The research adopted andadapted a 2012 survey of LGBT people carried out by theEuropean Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) in 27 EUcountries plus Croatia (which joined the EU in 2013) (the“FRA survey”). The FRA survey set a benchmark forunderstanding the lives of LGBT people. In addition to theFRA survey, this current survey also gathered specificinformation on the lives of intersex people.