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The fifth issue of LESBO magazine starts with Sara Lubej's article ("Bu"). The authoress discusses the political and media representation of lesbians after ten years of lesbian movement in Slovenia. She finds out that the general view, which regards lesbians in Slovenia, is more conservative than supportive.

The next section is entitled "Llobby": it is a strictly politically oriented section dealing deals with political concerns, relations between the state and same-sex persons, reflections on the local lesbian and gay scene, groups or movements etc. Tatjana Greif ("The Draft Legislation”) comments the work of a governmental group preparing the bill of the same-sex partnership in The Republic of Slovenia, where she herself represents the lesbian group ŠKUC-LL and the gay group ŠKUC-MAGNUS. The bill, which doesn't provide the institution of marriage for the same-sex partners, but a form of a registered partnership, will be discussed by the Slovenian parliament in the next months. Nataša Sukič Vegan ("Yellow and other press") analyses media attacks on lesbians in the mainstream media and also in the Slovenian gay tabloid "Kekec"; she draws some common denominators of the prejudices toward lesbians in mainstream media and the mentioned gay tabloid, for example the absolute ignorance when the lesbian political activism is in question.

In the section "Spectacles", which deals mainly with the cultural or social lesbian scene, Varja Požar presents the well-known lesbian artist Phranc. Nataša Lalić, the correspondent from Zagreb, describes Croatia's lesbian scene, which at the moment seems to be hardly alive, due to the very conservative political atmosphere. Aquarius, the first party-lady in the Slovenian lesbian scene, writes about the lesbian places in the city of Ljubljana (club K4, club Monokel, club Tiffany). In the media-mirror ("Action/Reaction"), Nataša Velikonja cites and comments lesbian-concerned articles published by the Slovenian public mass media. In this edition, special emphasis is given to a TV program called "TV Weekly", which was to be broadcast on the national television, but was censored and put on ice. The program was about the political meaning of same-sex partnership.

The main topic of this issue is "The Roman-Catholic church and lesbianism". The article is about the attitude of the Roman-Catholic church toward lesbians and lesbianism from the beginning of this religious institution on. It also examines the question of lesbian relationships between nuns or in the convents. Dealing with various aspects of the Roman-Catholic church in Slovenia is very important these days, as the Church is becoming one of the strongest public-opinion makers, which results in rise of the level of intolerance toward lesbians and gays.

The fifth issue brings an interview with Doctor Tanja Rener, professor at the Faculty of social sciences (University of Ljubljana). She discusses the possibility of introducing lesbian studies within the state university program and mentions several institutional forms in the Republic of Slovenia, which seem to be preclusive to the lesbian population: the school, the church, the family etc.

This issue's literary section brings the fragment of Suzana Tratnik's story "Berlin - Metelkova", an excerpt from her book of short stories, and Nataša Tri's short poems, accompanied by Petra Varl’s drawings "Roza & Lila".

The last section is called "Pornovision: it deals with the culture of body, sexuality, body politics and various aspects of sexual identities. Nataša Sukič Vegan ("Techno and Cyberspace") writes about the current trends in lesbian subcultures, Techno club culture, video art, virtual reality, lesbians on the net etc. Nataša Lalić ("Coming Out") writes about lesbian and gay coming out and analyses the results of the research, which she made among lesbians and gays in Zagreb and in Ljubljana. This is also the first media publishing of empirical research on lesbian and gay people in former Yugoslavia. This issue 's special insert is the brochure "Education against homophobia". The brochure deals with breaking homophobia in schools and in school programs in detail: first it explains what homophobia is and "where it comes from", then it suggests how we could fight against it, ending by listing some advice for teachers and professors about how to stimulate anti-homophobic attitude in the classrooms.