This is an accepted version of the paper published under a different title (but with very few other changes) in Europe-Asia Studies. For version of record, see: https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2020.1820956 Recommended citation: Vuckovic Juros T, Dobrotić I and Flego S. (2020) The Rise of the Anti-Gender Movement in Croatia and the 2013 Marriage Referendum, Europe-Asia Studies, 72(9): 1523-1553. Erosion of Human Rights Frame and the Rise of Anti-Gender Movement in Croatia: The Case of LGBT Rights and the Marriage Referendum By Dr Tanja Vuckovic Juros1 (
[email protected] , corresponding author) Dr Ivana Dobrotić2 (
[email protected]) Sunčica Flego 3 (
[email protected]) 1 Interdisciplinary Research Center on Families and Sexualities (CIRFASE), Université catholique de Louvain, Place Montesquieu 1, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium 2 Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, 32 Wellington Square, Oxford, UK 3 Dom za starije osobe Trešnjevka, Trg S. Penkale 1, Zagreb, Croatia *The research for this study was conducted while all three authors were affiliated with the Social Policy Unit at the Department of Social Work, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Nazorova 51, Zagreb, Croatia. Acknowledgements Parts of this research were presented at the conference 'Towards a European Society? Boundaries, Borders, Barriers' in 2014 in Zagreb, and at the workshop 'Fringe Politics in Southeastern Europe II - Conservative Social Movements and the Mainstreaming of Extremism in Southeast Europe', in 2015 in Graz. 1. Introduction In April 2013, the Croatian citizens' initiative U ime obitelji (UIO – In the Name of the Family) announced the campaign for a constitutional referendum defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman.