1976
Decriminalisation of consensual homosexual acts in Slovenia
1984
April 24-29: MAGNUS Festival (European and American gay films, exhibition
of gay publishing over the world, lectures about gay culture: F. Arnal,
A. Avanzo and G. Hockquenghem, discussions about gay culture and organisations,
video "Framed Youth" with author's presentation from London, social contacts)
was held in CD (Cankarjev Dom, Slovenian Cultural and Congress Centre),
ŠKUC Gallery, CIDM (Centre for Developing Leisure Activities for Young
People), Faculty of Philosophy.
April 24: VIKS (No. 2): Homosexuality and Culture (our own publication
about cultural and social problems of homosexuality)
June '84 - May '85: MAGNUS Gay Club every Saturday night in K4
(Disco where Gay Disco hosted) Jeans and Leather Party and promotion of
Tom of Finland video
December 8: Constitution of MAGNUS
section at ŠKUC (Students Cultural Center) in Ljubljana (members were
mostly gays and partly lesbians); section had had powerful support from
alternative scene.
1985
February 2: AIDS (our own informative publication)
February 20: Meeting with 28. GIUGNO Club from Bologna, Italy
(working session with collaborators and public presentation of the club)
March 30: GAYZINE 1 (publication with information and literature)
May 13-25: MAGNUS 1985 (European gay films, New Wave women's
films, photo exhibition Paris-Ljubljana, video program from Zagreb, Ljubljana
and Vienna, meeting with Austrian organisation Homosexuelle Initiative
Wien, Lilit Evening)
1986
January 11: COPI (exhibition of caricatures of French painter)
January 18: GAI PIED (presentation of Paris magazine)
June 9-14: MAGNUS 1986 (Derek Jarman films, Krista Beinstein
exhibition, DISTANZ performance, AIDS information, meeting with COC organisation
from Amsterdam)
August: MAGNUS MANIFEST for the Festival of New Social Movements
demands:
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immediate abolition of Criminal Law Articles 110/3 in Serbia, 93/2 in Bosnia
and Hercegovina, 101/2 in Macedonia and 81/3 in Kosovo;
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to change article about discrimination in Slovene Constitution and add
prohibition of discrimination on base of sexual orientation;
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to enter subjects about homosexuality in school programs not as a pathological
sexual experience, but as free life choice which is equal to but different
from heterosexual;
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the government of Yugoslavia to protest at governments of those countries
which discriminate, prosecute and liquidate homosexual minority.
December 15-18: AIDS (round table, films "Buddies" and "No Sad Song",
theater piece "That's the Way It Is")
1987
April 16: In March it comes into wider public that MAGNUS Festival
shall start on May 25. The festival was renamed to congress; Council for
social security and health at SZDL and Ljubljana inspection office decide
"the congress should be banned". General meeting of Škuc-Forum takes place
and among other things decide to propose to the consitutional committee
to include "sexual orientation" in the constitution's non-discrimination
clause.
May 25: Mobilisation Day against AIDS (exhibition of anti-AIDS
materials in ŠKUC Gallery)
July, August: AIDS Banner (distributed all over Slovenia with
help of ZSMS)
October: Special issue of the article "Let's Love Women" in Mladina
magazine
October: Constitution of LL-Lesbian Group
at feminist section Lilit (all together part of ŠKUC)
November: Women's disco night at "Club of Maribor's Students"
(Maribor is a town in northeast of Slovenia)
1988
January: LL was founded as independent section
at ŠKUC.
February 6: Newspaper Delo publishes open letter of sections
Magnus
and LL to Jože Smole (SZDL), who doesn't reply.
March: LL-Literature Evening of Slovenian lesbian poetry was
held in ŠKUC Gallery.
March: LESBOZINE 1 - First lesbian publication in Slovenia (information,
translations, literature)
March: Barbara Martin (Berlin) had a lecture about Swiss lesbian
writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach.
June: Since spring 1986 there have been perpetual efforts for the section
to get a permanent club - all of them failed. In June sections organize
two club evenings (the first female, the second mixed) in private
caffe Stara cerkev. Despite the fact that they were very successful
in all aspects, the owner doesn't agree to more evenings.
August 10-24: First international lesbian camp on Rab (Croatia)
with participants from Germany, Italy, England, Ireland, Portugal, Austria
and Netherlands.
October 22: Newspaper Delo publishes protest of the sections
against Jože Smole's interpretation at Novi Sad meeting (1st because of
its fascistoid implications, 2nd because Smole obviously "didn't deserve
it").
November 20: GAYZINE 2 (publication with theory, literature,
information)
December 10-18: Week of Lesbian Films (Desert Hearts, Olivia,
Anne Trister, Lianna, Another Way)
December 18-24: MAGNUS Festival was renamed to Week
of Gay Film Festival (Anger, Babenco, Genet, Kanievska, Molinaro,
Morrisay...) which was held in ŠKUC Gallery.
December: Three mixed club evenings at Žagar's.
December 31: New Year Eve's party at Gallery Škuc.
1989
January 9: Magnus and LL ask ZSMS (now LDS) to:
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ZSMS representatives should represent the motion to ban discrimination
based on sexual orientation in constitutional committee
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The representatives should represent this motion also at changing Yugoslav
constitution
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Related to (2), ZSMS should start a motion to delete paragraph 3, article
110 of Serbia's penal code, paragraph 2, article 93 of Bosnia and Herzegovina's
penal code, paragraph 2, article 101 of Macedonia's penal code and paragraph
3, article 81 of Kosovo's penal code.
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ZSMS should over ZSMJ speak in favor of changing legislation to equally
treat homo- and heterosexuals in laws which deal with sexual and family
relations.
February: LESBOZINE 2 (information, literature)
May 8: Magnus' and LL's supplement in "Tribuna".
June 1: GAYZINE 3
June 1-8: Week of gay film in Cankarjev dom (cultural and congress
centre): Forever friends, Wendel, Fraud,...
May 28: Beginning of the disco in club K4. First, some evenings were
Magnus evenings and other were LL evenings. In August the sections join
evenings into a Gay and Lesbian Disco, which later changes its name into
Roza disco; from starting 100 visitors it grows to 250 visitors (occasionally
350); before or in the disco there was occasionally additional program:
tropical night (Aug 13), transvestite party (Aug 20), film projections
(Torch Song Trilogy, Mascara, Liquid Sky, The Last of England), discussion
about homophobia (Sep 9), presentation of antology of Slovenian homoerotic
poetry Pieces of Glass in the Mouth (Sep 24), literary evening of Slovenian
authors (Oct 22), discussion about homosexuality and politics (Oct 29),
discussion about aids (Dec 3), transvestite show (Dec 24).
July 16-22: Participation of Magnus
and LL on ILGA
world conference in Vienna.
July-August: Open letter to Pavle Čelik (police) because of night
attacks on homosexuals, discussion with Čelik and his public answer.
August: Badges Silence = Death to battle aids and homophobia.
September: Participation of Magnus and LL at Europe Against the Current
in Amsterdam.
October: Participation of LL on "Lesbian Week"
in Berlin.
November 3-5: Participation on the 13th congress of LDS (Liberal-Democratic
Party): result was a support to MAGNUS
and LL activities:
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sexual orientation should enter Yugoslav and Slovene Constitution for the
cases which are strictly prohibited to discriminate. This also means to
equalize the age of consent for homosexual practice with heterosexual one.
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possibility of "marriage" or registered relations for homosexual partners;
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to abolish laws in Serbia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Macedonia and Kosovo.
1990
Roza Disco (transvestite show from Belgrade,
carnival with sexy tombola)
January 25: Gay pages in Telex ("straight" magazine; ten numbers
until 29.3. when Telex was closed down)
March 17: Whole day radio broadcast about homosexuality on RGL
(Radio Glas Ljubljane is local radio which covers the city of Ljubljana
and 1/3 of Slovenia).
Spring: Elections - cooperation with The List of Independent Social
Movements
June 23: Members of MAGNUS and LL
founded Roza klub - independent political
association for prevention and abolishing of discrimination on the basis
of sexual orientation and for defending of principles of equality on all
levels of private and public life.
Autumn: Public Information to all media in Slovenia: Initiative Against
Discrimination. Homosexuals are still second-class citizens in Slovenia,
which shows in the fact that:
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They are not allowed to form legally recognized partnerships with possibility
of inheritance or adoption
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They are pushed into "an alternative lifestyle" whether they like it or
not and into a ghetto without the possibility to run a single own place.
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Educational, cultural and other ideological forms see homosexuality in
a way which makes emotional and social growing up difficult and promotes
hypocrisy.
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They are totally dependant of their environment being prepared to tolerate
them or not, so they are often victims of different sorts of repression,
including physical attacks. Their expression of sexual orientation can
be a great risk to their physical, professional and social integrity.
Because it is every citizen's right to have his rights and fundamentals
freedoms protected by the government, and because rights and fundamental
freedoms can't be ensured silently or implicitly, especially if they're
connected to something, which is like homosexuality a subject to centuries
of prejudice and repression, Roza klub started the following motions:
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Slovenian constitution should explicitly ban discrimination based on sexual
orientation. Article 13 of the draft of the constitution should read: "All
people have equal rights regardless of nationality, race, gender, sexual
orientation, language, religion, political or other beliefs, material status,
birth, education, social status or any other personal circumstance. Everybody
is equal before the law."
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Republic of Slovenia should not enter any association which criminalizes
different sexual orientation.
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Law on family and partner relations should equally treat homo- and heterosexuals
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Government's informational, educational, cultural and scientifical programs
should find place for discussion of homosexuality and problems of homosexual
citizens.
For easier realisation of this initiative and other initiatives whose goal
is normal cohabitation of people, regardless of their sexual orientation,
Roza klub proposes that the Government should open a center, named "Roza
center". Roza klub asked political parties to support this initiative in
the parliament.
Bulletin of Roza klub (four times during
the year: July, September, October, November)
October 11-14: Participation on the EuroCaso in Vienna
November 8: Beginnings of Roza val (Pink Wave) broadcasting emission
that was going on national radio.
Roza Disco (Anja Rupel, fashion
shows, male striptease, transvestite shows)
ŠKUC Publishing - The LAMBDA Collection:
Blue Light - homoerotic love in Slovenian literature
December 3-7: Days of Gay Films (retrospective Rosa von Praunheim)
December: REVOLVER 1 - magazine
for cultural and political questions, magazine with homoerotic load.
1991
Roza disco (Svetlana Makarovič, Ana
Monro, Katja Levstik, Rimska cesta, Vita Mavrič) - still the one and only
gay disco club in Ljubljana and Slovenia.
March: REVOLVER 2 - Declaration
"Right
to Be Different" signed by Liberal - Democratic Party, Green Party,
Social - Democratic Party, Social - Democratic Youth, Party of Democratic
Renewal, Socialistic Party, Slovenian Democratic Association, Women for
Politics, Center for the Culture of Peace and Nonviolence and Roza
klub.
April 19-21: Participation on ILGA
conference for eastern and south - eastern Europe in Prague.
May - June: Financial Subvention to REVOLVER was suspended by Ljubljana
City Government with explanation that REVOLVER is a pornographic magazine!!!
September 4-8: First Pink Camp in Ankaran (on Slovenian coast
near Italian border)
REVOLVER 3 - still the only
magazine with homosexual themes
December 1-22: GO-GAY Films: week of gay films (Young Rebels
of Soul, Garden, Desire, Novembermond, Er moretto, Nokturno, The Law of
Desire)
AIDS Action: banner "It's Safer With Me" in cooperation with
ŠOU (Students Organisation of University in Ljubljana).
1992
Roza disco: K4 - Marquis de Sade
Theater, Jr. Gone Wild, Wild Boyz, Wild Girls (The Amazonas), transvestite
shows, PinkVision - Three years of the only gay disco in town.
January: REVOLVER 4
January 14-28: Photo Exhibition "View at a Man" went on in ŠKUC
Gallery (Alen Kos, Boštjan Lisec, Gorazd Majaron, Marko Radovan, Mio Vesovič).
January - March: Joy Disco - Gay disco opened and closed.
January - March: Flamingo restaurant - Opened and closed.
May 22: Third anniversary of Roza
disco and Rozavizija.
June: Participation on HIV+ people at Goetingen, Germany
July: Participation on "Lesbians and European Community" in Munich,
Germany
REVOLVER 5
August 26-30: Second Pink Camp in Grožnjan, Croatia
REVOLVER 6 - the only in Slovenia
and the best of gay publications in Central and Eastern Europe.
1993
Roza disco: The Aftertouch (techno
from Vienna), performance B.Brecht, dance performance "Fine Young Animals",
video programme, shows...
PANDORA - information for all lesbians (short, attractive, experienced)
KEKE(C) - the youngest gay newspaper
Aleksander Perdih and Silvo Zupanc addressed an initiative to
Constitutional Court on March 15th, 1993 asking for possibility of marriage
or registered partnership of same-sex partners (the initiative
was based on the article of the Constitution which prohibits discrimination).
The Constitutional Court proved that the justice branch of administration
isn't as independent as it should be and asked Government and Secretariat
for Law and Legal Matters for opinion. Both opinions was negative. The
initiators withdrew their initiative from Constitutional Court (when the
Constitutional Court decides on a matter, the decision is final - if the
initiative was overruled, it would be impossible to re-submit it later).
Danica Simšič, MP and chairwoman of the parliament's Committee for Health,
Work, Family and Social Politics later told Mladina (March 14th, 1994),
that if the initiative hadn't been withdrawn, the committee would have
overruled Government's and Secretariat's negative opinions.
December 5-12: 9th Gay and Lesbian Film
Festival (Wittgenstein, No skin of my ass, Forbidden love, Salmonberries,
Paris is burning, Hours and times, Clarie of the moon, Les nuits fauves,
Vor een verloren soldaat, Female misbehaviour, My father is coming, Poison,
The living end, My own private Idaho, Being at home with Claude)
1994
The 10th Anniversary of gay movement in Slovenia: It was celebrated
with exhibition "Tu smo" ("We are here"), Week of Gay and Lesbian Film,
the Slovene Song of May in Roza Disco and
of course the Castle incident (the city Government was involved in cancelling
the celebration of the 10th anniversary in the City Castle).
December 4-11: 10th Gay and Lesbian Film
Festival (Three of Hearts, Super 8 1/2, Lunatic Theatre, Burning
Ears (Rote Ohren fetzen durch die Asche), And the Band Played On, Strawberry
and Chocolate (Fresa y chocolate), Parting Glances, Grief, Oliver, Oliver,
Virgin Machine (Die Jugendfraumaschine))
1995
Roza disko: Dumb Type, OK girls,
Severina, Mirč & Katice, Elena, Mateja
Puhar, Rozavizija '95
REVOLVER 14, 15, 16, 17
The second try to "legalize" same-sex marriages. Initiative to the
parliament has been started to change the Marital Law to allow
partners of the same sex to marry. The initiative is co-sponsored by Government's
Bureau for Women's Politics. Vera Kozmik, the head of the bureau, said
it was reasonable to expect the law to be changed within two years.
According to a poll, 57% of people here oppose same-sex marriages whereas
29% believe same-sex partners should be allowed to marry. The public opinion
now is very similar to the public opinion several years ago on common-law
partnership.
Working camp: with help from volunteers from abroad (Most/Service
Civil International) we renovated gay and lesbian club
on Metelkova street.
International Conference on Homosexuality took place in August.
Detailed report is available here.
Safer-sex workshops (peer education) were held in Bohinj and
Kranjska gora.
December 3-12: 11th Gay and Lesbian
Film Festival took place (blessed by a sister of perpetual indulgence).
(Totally f***ed up, A Litany For Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde,
Sibak - Midnight Dancers, Thin Ice, Anata-ga suki desu, dai suki des (I
Like You, I Like You Very Much), Utukushiki Nazo (Beautiful Mystery), A
Place in the Sun)
1996
Roza disko: Anja Rupel, Nel's fashion
show, Dominik Kozarič, Get Ready for Papa (a week before Pope's visit to
Slovenia - free haircuts and astrological services), The Independance (rave
party), Rozavizija '96
REVOLVER 18, 19, 20, 21
Participation at demonstrations during Pope's visit.
Working camp: with help from volunteers from abroad (Most/Service
Civil International) we renovated our office.
Ljubljana hosted the 10th Regional ILGA
Conference for Eastern, Southeastern and Central Europe. Detailed report
is available here.
Magazine Lesbo started
to appear instead of Pandora.
Gay bulletin Kekec re-appeared
after a two-and-a-half-year break.
December 1-8: 12th Gay and Lesbian
Film Festival took place. (Costa Brava, Neurosia: 50 year of perversion,
B.D. Women, Shinyuku Boys, Beautiful thing, Stonewall, Life is a woman,
Lie down with dogs, It's my party, He is bold + he is a racist + he is
gay + he is a fascist, Hustler White, Sebastian, The celluloid closet,
Postcards from America, Butterfly kiss)
1997
Roza disko: Slo Active, Locker room,
Black out 1 & 2, drag performances (Gala, Elena,
Dafne and others)
Last issue of Revolver appeared.
Revolver is no longer published due to financial problems.
Workshops for journalists (Kekec,
Lesbo)
were held in Ankaran.
Safer-sex workshops (peer education) were held in Ankaran and
Izola.
Government invited Roza klub to participate
in the work-group for a new law on marriage and family relations.
December 1-7: 13th Gay and Lesbian
Film Festival took place. (The Delta, Isle of Lesbos, Like Grains
of Sand, Latin Boys Go to Hell, All Over Me, Lillies)
Propaganda: new gay and lesbian
club opens.
1998
Roza disko: (10 years of club K4)
drag performances by Gala, Dafne, Booge Boys (Zagreb). Mr Gay & Miss
Lesbo contests. Rozavision playback contest. DJs (residents and guests):
Nataša, Mirč, Maja, Shark, Nyn, Mare (Nostrum), Krištof and many others.
Last issue of Kekec was published
(and many ideas for his third revival).
April: Workshops for activists in Rabac
December 4: Conference on same-sex marriages
with guests from the Ministry for family, work and social matters and opened
by Štefka Kučan
November 29 - December 6: 14th Gay and
Lesbian Film Festival - opened by Majda Širca, state secretary
at Ministry of Culture (Just Happy the Way I Am, Total Eclipse, Love! Valour!
Compassion!, Alive and Kicking, The Female Closet, Woubi, Cheri, Bugis
Street, Honey, I've Sent the Men to the Moon, Like It Is, UnŠut, Everything
will be fine)
Club Tiffany re-novated (re-opened
December 12)
Vizibilija
- new publisher of queer literature
Legebitra - the first Slovenian GLBT youth group is formed.
1999
Tiffany: film projections, pikado
tournament, "gumitvist" tournament, flee markets, karaoke, making a park
(a workshop), lectures & discussions: "gay short story", "who is afraid
of aids", "catholic church and homosexuality - priests and gays", "registered
partnerships"; exhibitions: Andrej Brumen Čop (paintings), Gašper Zidar
(paintings), Frenk Fidler (photographs), Mirča Jenča (photo collages, paintings
of other artists), "Park" (installation by more authors).
Workgroup for drafting the bill on registered partnerships ended
its work - the draft is now in the goverment procedure. It's up to government
now to send the draft to the parliament.
October: Kicked out. The club K4's
management partially closed down Roza disco
because of "financial loss of the evenings". They didn't close down the
rest of the financially bad evenings. Roza disco remains open as it was
only once a month, other Sundays it's open from 9 pm to 1 am.
November 28 - December 5: 15th Gay and
Lesbian Film Festival (Fucking Amal/Show me love, Skin Flick, Fire,
Love is the Devil, Body without soul, Why not me?, Gods and Monsters, Lola
and Bilidikid, Love and Death on Long Island, The Watermelon Woman, Happy
Together)
The first issue of Oznanila (Legebitra's
bulletin) appears.
2000
Gay and lesbian sports group Out in Slovenija
is formed.
November 26 - December 3: 16th Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
(Beauty, Murmur of Youth, Got 2B There, Water Drops on Burning Rocks, Paragraph 175,
Blessed are those Who Thirst, Desperate Acquaintances, Bent, Better than Chocolate,
Queer as Folk, Burning Money, Meeting Julie)
2001
UZI - Urad za intervencije (Office for interventions) is formed. It is an informal
umbrella of various civil movements, including gay and lesbian. First actions are directed
towards bad conditions of illegal migrants and asylum-seekers and conected hate-speech
in media. Protests during Bush-Putin summit follow. bUZI - gay and lesbian section of
UZI is formed in June to organize gay and lesbian pride ("buzi" is also a derogatory
term for a gay man).
Lesbian magazine Lesbo re-appears.
Letter against homophobia - open letter of Društvo za nenasilno komunikacijo
(Society for non-violent communication), co-signed by various NGOs, to Ministry of Education.
Result of a school's decision to ban a workshop about homosexuality.
Lesbian Library
opens (theory, fiction, prose, poetry, strip)
Magnus organizes an international summer camp,
with aim to increase visibility of GLBT community. Many actions (posters and rainbow
flags all over the city), participation on pride, and at the end - July 13 - unfolding
a 15-meters rainbow flag from the Ljubljana Castle tower.
First Gay and Lesbian Pride takes place on July 6 as a
result of two gay men having been denied entrance to a caffé and of authorities' failure
to condemn this act of discrimination.
The pride was preceded by protest actions in that caffé. Participants drank
only mineral water, as slowly as possible, thus reducing the owner's profit.
Open letter to the mayor of Ljubljana, asking for condemnation of
discrimination.
July 25: Delegation of gay and lesbian organizations is invited to a reception in the
Ljubljana city hall for the first time - a result of pride, open letter, and other pressure actions directed
towards the mayor.
September 28-30: safer sex workshops in Bohinj
October 1: the first lecture from cycle Human rights and sexuality: start your week
with tolerance
October 8: Brane Mozetič pressed charges against Janez Rugelj, MD for
inflamatory statements against religious and other minorities (punishable by article
300/I of Slovenian penal code) in an interview for magazine "Sodobnost".
December 2-9: 17th Ljubljana Festival of Gay and Lesbian Film: O Fantasma,
Queer As Folk 2, West fickt Ost, Metrosexuality, Bound, Trembling before G-D,
Drole de Felix, High Art
2002
February 16: Transvestite trio Sestre (The Sisters) wins national contest for
Eurosong. The Sisters get 12 points from both juries but receive less votes on
tele-voting, which is later annuled because of iregularities. Slovenian homophobia
awakens.
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