In order to maintain the status of a city with an open approach when it comes to acceptance of diversity, especially in the direction of improving the rights of vulnerable social groups, the municipality of Kotor focused on improving the rights and living conditions of the LGBTQAI+ community.

The story and intentions on this issue found their way to the local population through the tourism aspect, from which many residents earn, live, and what dictates their way of life for 10 months a year now.

In this way, being on the rainbow cities map, the local population also feels the benefits, and there is hope that community members from these areas will be encouraged and recognize the municipality as their partner.

One of the stories that marked the city in the region and beyond is the arrival of the first "gay" cruise ship in 2013, which was accompanied by different impressions, but most of the comments were directed towards the fact that Kotor passed the test and confirmed that it can be found in the group of civilized modern cities of Europe.

The municipality of Kotor is the first local self-government to sign an agreement with the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights on cooperation in improving the position and protection of LGBTQIA+ persons back in 2014. With this, Kotor committed themselves to making further work in this area more intensive. The agreement obliged the city to create a local action plan for improving the quality of life of LGBTQIA+ people. It is actually a way and model of creating LGBTQIA+ policies at the local level that, through a set of activities and actions, works towards the primary goal, which is the improvement of the quality of life, through various aspects of life.

After that, in an administrative sense, an official for issues of the LGBTQIA+ community was appointed in the municipal Secretariat for Culture, Sports, and Social Activities.

Finally, it brought the title of member of the Rainbow Cities to the Municipality of Kotor. The desire to step forward in the field of LGBTQIA+ politics here in the Balkans, which is full of specifics, political will, and the motivation of the administration, led to the fact that contact with the Rainbow Cities Network resulted in this outcome.

Despite the openness, Kotor's services have not yet had any direct contact with the LGBTQIA+ community about whether their rights are sufficiently protected. But there have also been no negative or undesirable situations in Kotor, especially in relation to threats to rights, safety and health.

With the message that the support is there and that Kotor is ready for it, the city is making its way from a medieval town to a city that has reached its highly positioned place on the map of rainbow cities.