Fun Fast Facts:
Updated: 15 Jul 2014 (Bringing change by coming out with your family)
- Same-sex sexual activity legalised in 1962.
- No legal recognition of same-sex unions, on June 4, 2014, Parliament inserted an amendment that required marriage to be between a man and a woman exclusively.
- Anti-discrimination act in 2004, broadened in 2008 to include sexual orientation.
- Marchers in first Pride march held in May 2010 were confronted by anti-gay protestors and violence.
- Last country in the EU to hold pride events.
Bringing change by coming out with your family
Broadcast: 15 Jul 2014
LGBTIQ-friendly organisation: Rainbow Pride Bratislava
- Rainbow PRIDE Bratislava is a Slovak LGBT march for the rights of non-heterosexual people and their social and political equality, and is the celebration of gay and lesbian pride.
- PRIDE is a celebration of not only lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their sexual orientation and gender identity – but of every democratic and open society.
- The idea of PRIDE is based on three main principles:
- All people should be proud of their sexual orientation and gender identity
- Diversity is a gift
- Sexual orientation and gender identity are natural and they can’t be voluntarily changed.
- Goals of PRIDE:
- PRIDE promotes the community of non-heterosexual people as a whole
- PRIDE brings people together regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity
- PRIDE supports the equality of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and their relationships.
W3JOY interviewed: Romana Scheslinger, spokesperson for Rainbow Pride Batislava
“We chose the motto for the pride: ‘Come out with your families’. And it was our most successful pride yet.”
“This year was very special because we had to react on the ‘going backwards’ of the law”
“They don’t understand what we are talking about, the majority of the people, they are very influenced by traditional values”
“What you can see in Slovakia is pretty much propaganda politics”