RESEARCH
HISTORY OF ACTIVISM FOR THE LEGALIZATION OF GAY AND LESBIAN CIVIL UNIONS IN SLOVENIA (orig. title: Nataša Velikonja: ZGODOVINA AKTIVIZMA ZA LEGALIZACIJO GEJEVSKIH IN LEZBIČNIH PARTNERSKIH ZVEZ V SLOVENIJI)
This overview provides a chronology of activist initiatives and actions for legalising gay and lesbian partnerships in Slovenia. The document lists several key events that have crucially conditioned changes in the legal status of gay and lesbian partnerships, as well as the discoursive dynamics within the general public, civil society, political institutions, and LGBT activists over almost three decades. The data, quotes, and thematic highlights collected here are from print and online sources (a detailed list can be found in the document).
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RESEARCH: THE LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSSEXUAL POPULATION ON THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE NEW FAMILY CODE (orig. title: RAZISKAVA MED LEZBIČNO, GEJEVSKO, BISEKSUALNO IN TRANSEKSUALNO POPULACIJO O ODNOSU DO NOVEGA DRUŽINSKEGA ZAKONA)
This survey deals with the attitude of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual population in Slovenia towards the 2011 Family Code and issues affecting their partnership, family and parental position and status. It was conducted by ŠKUC LL with the support of the Astraea Foundation. Within the social atmosphere in Slovenia that was at the time tense and heated over the adoption of the new Family Code, a law which initially provided for the right of same-sex partners to marriage and all accompanying rights and obligations, an insight into the opinion of the affected population, which would finally achieve equal status in at least one of the many areas of private life with its approval, was not only necessary but also politically inevitable. With this research, we were opposing the widespread, but also extremely dangerous, idea that politics or a part of society can decide and decide on – as one of the lesbians surveyed wrote – “very, very vital matters” of a certain group of people without taking into account their views, proposals and objections and, ultimately, even without their consent.
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TWENTY YEARS OF THE GAY AND LESBIAN MOVEMENT (orig. title: DVAJSET LET GEJEVSKEGA IN LEZBIČNEGA GIBANJA)
From Nataša Velikonja’s introduction to the publication:
“The pages before you present a series of events that marked the period of gay and lesbian activism from 1984 to 2004. This series, this interweaving of stories of many people, people and communities, of many years and different periods, of houselessness and spaces, of diasporas and scenes, of music and manifestos, of festivals and demonstrations, of pleasure and pride, of plans and actions, of rebellion and resistance, is not finished and there are countless reasons why the work must continue.
In those two decades, this space has observed the creation of two countries, and a third is on the doorstep. The activist struggle against the social, political, cultural or economic exclusion of gays and lesbians, the struggle which began in 1984 with the first Magnus Festival and has continued through twenty years of activism and policy making, continues. The question is whether it can ever end – or is it better to say that the practices of exclusion are merely shifting along the infinite curve of the current system’s priorities? Our task is to be able to understand them and to deal with them.
After two decades, some possibilities allow us to understand the quality of our personal lives and social situations. We cherish an idea, so important also for gays and lesbians, that courage and boldness do not necessarily lead to self-destruction. There are places for us to meet and channels through which to communicate; there is knowledge, the books and magazines we make; information is certainly available. There is an awareness of the insufficiency of the cunning offers that the authorities, the media, and the power institutions offer us to soften their homophobic representation. We object, and we demand. What you know and what you live are important stories. The rebellious decades, such as those presented here, will always be needed.”
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LGBT LITERATURE
Selected by: Nataša Velikonja
This bibliography of literature is a work in progress. A quick look at the material collected in the Slovene language in the 20th century attempts to offer points of orientation and thereby facilitate research efforts and desires that, within the ambitions and whims of the present, do not overlook the past or forget the future.
The bibliography is listed by decade and is dissected after 1984. The collection works as a kind of index, a chronology of events. As a starting point, it leads to countless other and equally important information. To preserve a sense of clarity and orientation, many events are not fully covered by bibliographical citations. Still, the desire for further research is provided with chronological data and as a first piece of information. The selection does not establish hierarchies or priorities of media or author references but is intended solely as a means of chronological orientation.
REPORT: SURVEY ON DISCRIMINATION BASED ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION (orig. title: POROČILO: ANKETA O DISKRIMINACIJI NA OSNOVI SPOLNE USMERJENOSTI)
The research coordinator was Tatjana Greif, the surveys were statistically processed by Varianta d.o.o. (with Tomaž Bergoč); the analysis was written by Nataša Velikonja. Published by: ŠKUC LL.
Excerpt from the introduction:
The survey “On discrimination based on sexual orientation” was prepared by the lesbian section of ŠKUC-LL and ILGA-Europe (Tatjana Greif). The survey is part of an international study conducted simultaneously in Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovenia. Its purpose was to collect data on the types and extent of discrimination against gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people. The study results are intended for the Government and the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia, the European Commission and the media, to draw the attention of the competent political authorities to violations of the rights of homosexuals in the context of the enlargement of the European Union. The study is also the basis of a report intended for the European Parliament and the Directorate for Enlargement of the European Union.
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