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By a vote of 51-28 the Slovene Parliament has just amended that country's Marriage & Family Relations Act to legalize same-sex marriage, becoming the 12th European nation to do so. All but Iceland and Norway are members of the European Union. How do you like them apples, World Congress of Families? I'm being told by a Slovene JMG reader that the "evil hounds of hell" are already calling for a referendum to repeal today's action. A poll issued last month showed that 59% of Slovenes support same-sex marriage.
 

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By a vote of 51-28 the Slovene Parliament has just amended that country's Marriage & Family Relations Act to legalize same-sex marriage, becoming the 12th European nation to do so. All but Iceland and Norway are members of the European Union. How do you like them apples, World Congress of Families? I'm being told by a Slovene JMG reader that the "evil hounds of hell" are already calling for a referendum to repeal today's action. A poll issued last month showed that 59% of Slovenes support same-sex marriage.

Haiducii will be glad :):):)
 

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Slovenian Parliament Legalises Gay Marriage and Adoption

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MPs passed on Tuesday in a 51:28 vote changes to the marriage and family relations act that allow gay marriage and adoption by homosexual couples. A coalition of conservative groups has already announced efforts for a referendum.

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BUT The Slovenian Constitutional Court won't allow a referendum about it, because it is a question of human rights. The Article 90 of the Constitution of the Republic of Slovenia says: '' A legislative referendum may not be called on laws eliminating unconstitutionality in the field of human rights and fundamental freedoms or any other unconstitutionality.''

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History of Gay and Lesbian Movement in Slovenia

1976: Decriminalisation of consensual homosexual acts in Slovenia
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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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2014 March 4: Deputies passed changes to the marriage and family relations act that allow gay marriage and adoption by homosexual couples.

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Rainbow Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia

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Ljubljana is a city of open, tolerant and friendly people, where everyone can find a place for themselves. It is a place where we respect diversity and live together...I am sure you will agree that everyone has the right to be different. This diversity makes us unique, while the ability to live side-by-side with respect for diversity enriches us and offers us new experiences. For this reason among others, Ljubljana is the most beautiful city in the world! :heart:

Rainbow Ljubljana (pdf.document) download link on Z1ppy

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Za, Za, Za, haiducii!!!!

I am so happy for you and all Slovenians, and for gay people all over the world!

And what a superb provision to include in a country's constitution (Article 90); it should be in the constitutions of all countries around the world.
 

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The first gay marriage in Croatia

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The first gay marriage in Croatia took place on September 5 last year, and it now appears that it was concluded between a Serb and a Croat, which makes it even more interesting. That also shows that love has no borders, some local media report. Not only that many in the Balkan countries still strongly oppose gay marriages, but they also frown on relationships between people of different nations, or faiths. Croatia legalized “life partnership” between homosexual couples last year, and first such marriage was concluded on September 5. Gay organizations back then published that information, but without any details about “grooms”. Serbian daily “24sata.rs” today reported that marriage was concluded between Ivan (29) from Serbia, who asked them not to publish his last name, and his 12 years older partner from Croatia. Two of them first met via internet three years ago, and later started seeing each other regularly.

HERE is their story.
 

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Young, brave and in love! They took a big step being the first Gay couple to be married.

They are cute too even though their faces are blurred I can tell they are smiling as big as a crescent moon and have stars in their eyes. The picture in the full story link is clearer.

I wish them many happy years to come!

Thanks haiducii. This was an inspiring story.

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MPs Vote to Ban Gay Marriage Referendum

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Ljubljana (SLO), 26 March - The National Assembly confirmed in a 53 to 21 vote a bill Thursday that bans a referendum on legislative changes enacting gay marriage on grounds that it would violate a constitutional provision which prohibits popular votes on human rights.

Maribor (SLO), 27 March - The decision by parliament to ban the referendum on gay marriage is another small victory in the fight for rights of same-sex couples, but the real battle will be fought before the Constitutional Court, the daily ''Vecer'' writes in Friday's commentary.
 

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A ban on putting minority rights to a majority vote - very progressive!

Ireland is not so forward thinking - we're facing a referendum on gay marriage in May.

I have all my fingers and toes crossed for a positive outcome!

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talk about being backward ... Germany, the German state, did all it could to prevent my mariage here in France 18 month ago.

The civil officer in charge told me, that he contacted the general attorney for our departement who contacted the French ambassy which contacted the provincial government which contact my home town administration ...

and I finally got the papers needed ... after 5 months ...
 

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Transgender army major wins victory in conservative Serbia

Transgender army major wins victory in conservative Serbia
Associated Press | By Jovana Gec | May 1 2015

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Helena, a transgender person, stands next to her Serbian army uniform put on display in her friend's apartment Wednesday, April 15, 2015, in Belgrade, Serbia. Maj. Helena knew that revealing herself as Serbia’s first transgender officer would mean the end of her military career. In the bastion of the Serbian macho world, there was simply no room for a soldier who was going to become a woman. So, after more than twenty years of service, Helena agreed to leave. But, she didn’t go quietly

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — In macho Serbia, he came across as macho as they come: an army major in a military culture that glorifies masculine strength. He was a perfect husband and father in a society that preaches family values. But for nearly his entire life, the major felt he was living a lie: Deep down, he was a woman.

Last year, he came out, telling his family and superiors that he was Helena — and starting therapy to become a woman. She did not remain Serbia's first transgender major for long: The army asked for her resignation, saying she "posed a threat to the reputation of the army." In April, Helena scored an important victory: A Serbian human rights body ruled that the army had discriminated against her by saying she was a potential stain on its honor.

Today, Helena appears in public in women's clothes and sporting bleached blond hair. The 43-year-old declined to provide her first or last name during her life as a man in order to protect a divorced wife and four children — but is not shy about being photographed or filmed in her new identity.

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Helena, a transgender person, holds her Serbian army uniform Wednesday, April 15, 2015, at her friend's apartment in Belgrade, Serbia.

By speaking out, Helena has become a rare voice representing Serbia's transgender community, which lives under constant fear of hate crimes on the margins of the society. Tolerance for the LGBT community across the Balkans is low, and several gay pride events in Serbia have been canceled because of extremist violence.

"I am fighting for the rights of all humiliated people," Helena told The Associated Press in an interview. "This is a struggle for all those who can't enjoy their basic human right to be equal with everybody else."

Helena spoke to the AP in a friend's flat in downtown Belgrade, meticulously made up and dressed in tight black jeans and a sweater. Smiling gently as she sipped coffee, she spoke calmly about her decision to undergo a sex change program that will culminate in an operation. The decision came at a high cost — causing a split from her family and ending her career — but Helena said it felt "amazing."

"It's like stepping out of a cage," she said.

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In this photo taken Wednesday, April 15, 2015, Helena, a transgender person, applies makeup in her friend's apartment in Belgrade, Serbia.

Helena's inner struggle began in early childhood, growing up in a military household in a small Serbian town. As a young boy, Helena made her hair grow out so she could curl it. When nobody was around, she would put on her mother's clothes and sneak onto the terrace to let out that girl inside — if only for a moment.

But this was impossible in a town where any hint of femininity in a man was seen as a weakness. She was confused. She thought there was something wrong with her. So she sought to quash the woman inside.

"And what better place to kill that woman than the army?" Helena said.

She finished military school and married young, another form of "self-healing." For the next 22 years, Helena served in the military and led the life of a family man. At the same time, she gradually built a parallel life, getting in touch with fellow members of the transgender community.

In 2001, Helena was detained by police wearing a skirt and suspended by a military disciplinary court. She appealed and was reinstated after seven months. But life in the army was not the same again. She recalled "everybody going silent every time I entered the room."

Finally last year, Helena came out. Though she did not resist army pressure to drive her into early retirement, she was horrified when this was cast as a way to protect its reputation. With the help of a human rights group, Helena took her case to Serbia's anti-discrimination office.

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In this photo taken Wednesday, April 15, 2015, Helena, a transgender person, applies makeup in her friend's apartment in Belgrade, Serbia.

In a landmark for Serbia, the Commissioner for Protection of Equality agreed. Nevena Petrusic — whose office was created to help Serbia qualify for EU membership — told the AP that she recommended that the army give Helena a written apology.

The army has yet to issue one, and did not respond to AP requests for an interview. Petrusic's recommendations are not binding, but they are closely watched by international officials monitoring Serbia's pro-EU reforms.

Petrusic lamented the fact that Serbia has no rules on the status of people undergoing sex change — such as defining gender on official documents. She cited a case in which a Serbian university refused to grant a diploma to a person who underwent a sex-change operation after finishing university. The state, Petrusic said, "ignores the fact that these people live among us, and that is inadmissible."

Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic apologized to Helena publicly in January, but not in writing. He has denied any form of discrimination within the armed forces, where women serve alongside men.

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Helena, a transgender person, lights a cigarette in her friend's apartment in Belgrade, Serbia Wednesday, April 15, 2015.

Helena said the ruling was important because now "I won't be labeled as a sick person." And also because it will serve as encouragement to other LGBT Serbs. The rights group Egal, which helped Helena build her case, said the ruling would resonate across the socially conservative Balkans.

Helena said the decision to fully embrace her womanhood has brought her inner peace and freedom, although her ID still lists her as a man. As time goes by, she has been gaining confidence, and is no longer afraid to walk the streets or use public transport.

"That's because I am so good with make-up!" she said.

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^ Sounds like that country is 100% ready for EU. ;)
 

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Pride Parade Shifts Focus on Family

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Ljubljana (SLO), 13 June - Pride parades have typically been about LGBT persons making society aware of their rights and plight, but with attitudes relaxing in recent years this year's event, held in Ljubljana on Saturday, shifted the focus on family and the prospect of the imminent legalisation of marriage equality.

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U.S. Embassy in Skopje, Macedonia, is flying the rainbow flag to commemorate Skopje Pride Week.

 

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Serbia should allow gay marriage, if it wants to enter EU

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Serbia will be put under serious pressure on behalf of the European Union (EU) over the next months and in about a year, the latest, it will have to change its laws and allow the gay marriage, Serbian online news edition Telegraf reported.

The legislative amendments should allow the gay couples to receive heritage, share their property and adopt children.

According to the news edition, Serbia will be imposed this requirement in the middle of July when the Srebrenica case is closed.
 

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Serbian Capital Sets Date For Gay Pride

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This year's Belgrade Pride Week will start on September 14 while the main Pride march will be September 20, the organizers announced on Thursday.

Goran Miletic, one of the organizers, said that they expected few obstacles in organizing this year's event, but added that public opinion towards same-sex relations was slow to change in Serbia.

In 2001, when the first “Pride” was held in Belgrade, the participants gathered in central Belgrade were attacked by hooligans, right-wing activists and even some members of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

LGBT society still faces serious everyday problems in Serbia. Miletic said many people are still afraid to report hate crimes and there is little difference between smaller towns and bigger cities when it comes to discrimination against the gay population.

“Some of us can’t find jobs, others get fired. Just because they are gay, some couples cannot rent apartments,” Miletic said.

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I'm looking forward to some pics from Gay Heaven's very own 'on-the-scene' reporter in Serbia.

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Activists Upbeat About Serbian Gay Pride

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Belgrade Pride Week 2015 will take place from September 14 to September 20 and - unlike previous years - this time activists expect fewer problems to mar the event.

Gay pride has a bumpy history in socially conservative Serbia. However, this year activists expect to meet less hostility.

Goran Miletic, one of the organizers, told BIRN that Pride Week organization is "going well” and he expects nothing dramatic to happen.

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I'm trying to play 'Where's Waldo' with that pic, haiducii ... but I don't see any familiar faces ... yet ;)

Although the tall, handsome guy in the middle with the dark jacket, faded jeans and white sneakers is looking kinda familiar now that I think about it :)
 

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Belgrade Pride Week 2015 ended with the parade on Sunday

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Hundreds of people have staged a gay-pride parade in the Serbian capital, Belgrade.

Hundreds of riot police were deployed in the city center on September 20, with several armored and water cannon vehicles parked at main crossings in the downtown area where roads have been closed to traffic since the early morning.

Threats of disruption by far-right groups in past years had forced the government to cancel such events.

There were no reports of violence in Belgrade, where people waved rainbow flags and carried colorful balloons in a festive atmosphere.

But seven men wearing masks were arrested by police on suspicion of planning to attack participants in the parade. RFE/RL's Balkan Service says a total of 54 people were detained during the parade.

Marchers were joined by Serbia's European Integration Minister Jadranko Joksimovic, Culture and Information Minister Ivan Tasovac, and Belgrade Mayor Sinisa Mali.

A few dozen counterdemonstrators stood near St. Mark's Church, many of them holding crosses and signs with religious sayings.

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