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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals persons in Slovenia may face some challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents, though the Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) laws make Slovenia the most progressive country of the former Yugoslavia and one of the most progressive in Slavic Europe.
The lesbian and gay movement has been active in Ljubljana since 1984, when MAGNUS, the gay section at ŠKUC (Students Cultural Centre, Ljubljana), was founded as the "Cultural Organisation for Socialisation of Homosexuality." A pro-lesbian feminist group, Lilit, was started in 1985, followed in 1987 by LL, a lesbian group within ŠKUC. In 1990 Magnus and LL founded the national lesbian and gay campaigning organisation, Roza Klub. Other parts of the country have no or very few organizations regarding sexual orientation.
LGBT rights in Slovenia
Law regarding same-sex sexual activity
Under the Penal Code of 30 June 1959 male homosexual acts were illegal in all of (now former) Yugoslavia. During the first half of the 1970s the power over penal legislation was devolved from the Federal Republic to the eight states and provinces. A new penal code that decriminalised homosexual intercourse passed in 1976 and came into force in 1977. All discriminatory provisions were removed. There were no references to lesbian relationships in the old legislation.
Recognition of same-sex relationships Registered partnership for same-sex couples has been legal since 23 July 2006, with limited inheritance, social security and next-of-kin rights.
In July 2009 the Constitutional Court of Slovenia held that Article 22 of the Registration of Same Sex Partnerships Act (RSSPA) violated the right to non-discrimination under Article 14 of the Constitution on the ground of sexual orientation, and required that the legislature remedy the established inconsistency within six months.In December 2009 the center-left Government put forward a new Family Code, which would envisage full equalization of same-sex unions with other family unions, gay marriage and adoptions by gay couples, and sent it into discussion at the Slovenian National Assembly. After the bill was stalled in the National Assembly for some time, a compromise version of the Code was passed in June 2011, which granted registered same-sex couples all rights of marriage, including step-child adoption, but stopped short of granting joint adoption rights and reserved the term 'marriage' as a union of 'a man and a woman'.[3] However, this law was repealed on a national referendum 2012, which means the situation is reverted to that of 2006.
Military service Slovenia abolished mandatory military service in 2003.
Discrimination protections
Since 1998 discrimination on basis of sexual orientation in workplaces has been banned. The same goes for employment seekers. Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is also banned in a variety of other fields, including education, housing and the provision of goods and services, with Slovenia having one of most
wide-ranging anti-discrimination laws in the EU.
The lesbian and gay movement has been active in Ljubljana since 1984, when MAGNUS, the gay section at ŠKUC (Students Cultural Centre, Ljubljana), was founded as the "Cultural Organisation for Socialisation of Homosexuality." A pro-lesbian feminist group, Lilit, was started in 1985, followed in 1987 by LL, a lesbian group within ŠKUC. In 1990 Magnus and LL founded the national lesbian and gay campaigning organisation, Roza Klub. Other parts of the country have no or very few organizations regarding sexual orientation.
LGBT rights in Slovenia
Law regarding same-sex sexual activity
Under the Penal Code of 30 June 1959 male homosexual acts were illegal in all of (now former) Yugoslavia. During the first half of the 1970s the power over penal legislation was devolved from the Federal Republic to the eight states and provinces. A new penal code that decriminalised homosexual intercourse passed in 1976 and came into force in 1977. All discriminatory provisions were removed. There were no references to lesbian relationships in the old legislation.
Recognition of same-sex relationships Registered partnership for same-sex couples has been legal since 23 July 2006, with limited inheritance, social security and next-of-kin rights.
In July 2009 the Constitutional Court of Slovenia held that Article 22 of the Registration of Same Sex Partnerships Act (RSSPA) violated the right to non-discrimination under Article 14 of the Constitution on the ground of sexual orientation, and required that the legislature remedy the established inconsistency within six months.In December 2009 the center-left Government put forward a new Family Code, which would envisage full equalization of same-sex unions with other family unions, gay marriage and adoptions by gay couples, and sent it into discussion at the Slovenian National Assembly. After the bill was stalled in the National Assembly for some time, a compromise version of the Code was passed in June 2011, which granted registered same-sex couples all rights of marriage, including step-child adoption, but stopped short of granting joint adoption rights and reserved the term 'marriage' as a union of 'a man and a woman'.[3] However, this law was repealed on a national referendum 2012, which means the situation is reverted to that of 2006.
Military service Slovenia abolished mandatory military service in 2003.
Discrimination protections
Since 1998 discrimination on basis of sexual orientation in workplaces has been banned. The same goes for employment seekers. Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is also banned in a variety of other fields, including education, housing and the provision of goods and services, with Slovenia having one of most
wide-ranging anti-discrimination laws in the EU.
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