publications
Knowledge is an important tool for understanding, raising awareness, and creating social change. At Ljubljana Pride, we produce publications, guides, reports, and other resources addressing the human rights of LGBTIQ+ people, gender and sexual diversity, inclusion, and other topics relevant to the community and the wider public.
Our publications are based on professional expertise, research, and the organisation’s many years of experience. They are intended for LGBTIQ+ people, professionals, educators, decision-makers, the media, and anyone who wants to contribute to a more inclusive and just society.
The Rights of LGBTIQ+ Applicants for International Protection in Slovenia
Language: Slovenian, English, French
The publication explains the rights of LGBTIQ+ applicants for international protection in Slovenia and their specific vulnerabilities. It reviews EU and national case law, the need for up-to-date country of origin information and special procedural safeguards, and outlines measures for decent living conditions. It criticises the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum for restricting access to protection and calls for safe, legal migration routes based on solidarity and equality.
How to create your own pool of trainers within LGBTIQ+ and other youth organistations
Language: English
We hope this manual will be a useful tool for organisations to reflect on how they work with trainers and educators, make strategic decisions that suit their unique situation and needs, and support trainers and educators. As more organisations work with young people from marginalised groups, we hope this manual will trigger reflection and empower organisations to include more trainers and educators from marginalised groups.
Mentoring in Peer Education mentoring scheme for mentors supporting peer educators (from marginalised backgrounds)
Language: English
The Rainbow Peer Forces project (2022-2024) brought together six countries to introduce peer education into youth work with LGBTIQ+ youth. It developed a manual, resources for organisations and peer educators, and a mentoring scheme to support peer educators from marginalised backgrounds, promoting informed decision-making and peer support across Europe.
Poročilo o incidentih s sovražnim nagibom na Paradi ponosa 2024
Language: Slovenian
The “Safe at Pride” report, co-funded by the Impact4Values programme, analyses hate-motivated incidents before, during and after the 2024 Pride Parade, including threats, attacks and the destruction of rainbow symbols. These incidents reflect homophobia, biphobia and transphobia and remain insufficiently condemned. The organisers criticise the police for inadequate protection and an insufficient response to violence, and highlight the need for better cooperation between the Police and Ljubljana Pride.
Manual about peer support among young LGBTIQ+ people
Language: English
The aim of the “Youth workers alliance for the development and promotion of youth peer support in the area of youth mental health” (YAPS) project was to create peer support practices that will help mitigate the risks of mental health issues in young LGBTIQ+ people. Several studies and the practical experience of youth workers show that there is a causal link between mental health problems and socio-economic problems among these young people.
Prevention of LGBTIQ+ youth homelessness
Manual for youth workers.
Language: English
In the course of our work, we draw upon concepts that significantly shape our understanding of the existential challenges faced by young LGBTIQ+ individuals and all the associated risk factors and consequences. Understanding housing exclusion and homelessness is of paramount importance if we are to grasp the complexity and dynamism of inadequate housing situations. Simultaneously, we must take into account certain specific circumstances that accompany LGBTIQ+ individuals and social phenomena that profoundly influence their daily lives and life trajectories.
Volunteering as a tool for inclusive society
Good practices manual.
Language: English
“Volunteering as a tool for an inclusive society” builds intercultural understanding and solidarity via inclusive volunteerism in local communities. It explores using volunteering to address homophobia, racism and xenophobia in NGOs and communities, and to create inclusive environments with stakeholders. Volunteering by marginalized groups promotes solidarity in and beyond the EU and helps cultivate inclusive organisations.
Recommendations on inclusive volunteering
Language: English
Between March 2021 and September 2022, five organizations (Youth Initiative for Human Rights Croatia, INAR Ireland, Loesje Berlin, Ljubljana Pride, and Youth Initiative for Human Rights Serbia) collected recommendations on inclusive volunteering, both via an online survey and during physical events. The majority respondents are young people coming from marginalised backgrounds and identities themselves. We collected 2540 responses and 915 recommendations for decision makers. A lot of recommendations were similar so we compiled them in a way to express their core idea.
Boj proti diskriminaciji
Language: Slovenian
This comprehensive learning journal is designed as a resource for educators and other school staff in addressing inequality and discrimination in schools. It includes theoretical explanations, exercises, and reflection questions to support a deeper understanding of the topic and encourage critical self-reflection as key actors in transforming schools into more inclusive and safer environments. Take the time to understand the background, complete the exercises, and reflect on yourself and your work.
Naslavljanje vrstniškega nasilja
A publication for young people.
Language: Slovenian
Peer violence often goes unnoticed because such behaviour is seen simply as part of growing up or as a harmless joke. But this is not true! No one deserves to experience violence, and no one is to blame for what is happening to them. All violence is violence, and it needs to be addressed.
This publication brings together real-life stories and artworks by peers, as well as questions for reflection and information on where to turn for help and how to respond.
Inclusive Organisations
Manual for organisational development.
Language: Slovenian, English
Primarily for youth organisations (youth-led or working with youth), but useful for any organisation, institution or public body seeking to become more inclusive and non-discriminatory towards people with marginalised backgrounds. It offers concrete support for organisational reflection and is for managers, staff, group leaders or volunteers planning and delivering programmes with participants/beneficiaries.
Vključevanje in podpiranje LGBTIQ+ mladih v projektih (prostovoljstva) Evropske solidarnostne enote
Language: Slovenian
These guidelines provide simple, practical advice on involving LGBTIQ+ young people in European Solidarity Corps (ESC) volunteering projects and supporting them throughout their participation. They can easily be adapted for ESC employment and traineeship projects and are also useful for supporting other LGBTIQ+ young people in your organisation (participants, colleagues, local volunteers, etc.).
Transformacija sovraštva v mladinskem delu
Language: Slovenian, English
This Manual is designed to support youth workers engaging with young people who express hateful speech and/or behaviour in youth settings.
It focuses on our practice as youth workers: to become more aware of our communication and listening skills; to understand how we can create safer spaces in youth settings that support learning and change to happen; and to focus on working with those young people that spread hate – through their speech or behaviour – whether they are conscious of doing so or not. The Manual gives us the tools to work towards transformative practice with young people with the aim of bringing about a real change in attitudes and behaviours with young people.
Transformacija sovražnega govora v mladinskem delu
Language: Slovenian, English
This toolkit has been developed to help youth workers transform hate speech and behaviour in youth settings. Hate expressed by words, behaviour and attitudes is a form of violence that can easily be overlooked or ignored. When it is left unchallenged it can become normalised within our society and escalate into physical violence on a larger scale. Challenging hate when it occurs sends a clear message to young people that these attitudes and words are harmful and it takes the dehumanising impact of hate seriously. With the rapid growth of social media, which provides a willing platform, the ways in which hate speech can impact on people in all areas of society have multiplied. There is no widespread clarity on what hate speech is and how to address it. We intend for this toolkit to meet some of these needs by supporting youth workers to have concrete and adaptable tools to enable them to recognise, challenge and ultimately transform hate speech.
research
To more effectively challenge different forms of oppression in society and advocate with responsible institutions for the respect of the human rights of LGBTIQ+ people in Slovenia, we believe it is essential to first have a thorough understanding of their real needs, struggles, and lived experiences.
To this end, Ljubljana Pride also conducts research and supports its members and collaborators in their academic and research work. This enables us to monitor and report on the realities experienced by LGBTIQ+ people in Slovenia.
Potrebe in izkušnje mladih LGBTIQ+ na območju Mestne občine Ljubljana
research report
Language: Slovenian
Author: Mateja Morić.
The study conducted in the Municipality of Ljubljana (MOL) examines which spaces young LGBTIQ+ people identify as their own, what they do there, and what their needs are. It assesses whether existing activities offered by LGBTIQ+ organisations, youth organisations, and organisations working with young people meet their needs, as well as why some young people do not participate and how they spend their time instead.
Ljubljana differs from other parts of Slovenia due to the concentration of LGBTIQ+ services and organisations. The aim of the research is to contribute to more inclusive youth work.
LJUBO DOMA? – Bivanjske razmere LGBTIQ+ oseb v Sloveniji
Language: Slovenian
Authors: Vesna Štefanec and Mateja Morić.
As part of the SQVOT programme, a research report was developed as a first step towards examining the situation and analysing the housing needs of LGBTIQ+ youth in Slovenia. It brings together analyses of varying scope based on data collected over the past year and provides insight into key areas essential for understanding and addressing housing exclusion and homelessness among young LGBTIQ+ people
Seksualno nebinarne osebe in nekatere dimenzije njihovega vsakdanjega življenja
Language: Slovenian
Authors: Nina Perger and Simona Muršec.
The text addresses some specificities of the everyday life of sexually non-binary people with an emphasis on bisexual, pansexual, queer and asexual identities. These identities are, according to the Everyday life of LGBTIQ+ youth study, most common within the youngest age category (under 18) and people with transgender and non-binary gender identities. Furthermore, the article focuses on the degrees to which sexually non-binary people reveal or hide their identity in certain kinds of relationships, as well as on the degrees of hiding their identities with the purpose of avoiding discrimination, violence and/or other negative reactions, especially in the context of education and the relations formed within the educational environment.
Vsakdanje življenje mladih LGBTIQ+ oseb v Sloveniji, ali: “To, da imam svoje jebene pravice!”
Language: Slovenian
Authors: Nina Perger,Simona Muršec,Vesna Štefanec.
This is the first survey that has successfully covered a large variety of subgroups of LGBTIQ + communities, which to date have been largely overlooked and exempted from the dominant focus on (young) gays and lesbians. Although experience of repression on the basis of sexual or gender identity is roughly similar, there are also important differences and specificities between diverse sexual and sexual identities, which in the future are to be further explored and analyzed for the purpose of effective addressing and overcoming inequalities. In this respect, research and work represent only one of the first steps towards the warning and highlighting of the diversity of identities and its relevance to the everyday lives of non-heterosexual and non-cis persons.
LGBTIQ+ Youth and Experiences with Violence in Education
Language: English
Author: Nina Perger
Published in: Ars & Humanitas, 12(1), 88-103.
School-worker and peer violence makes normativity explicit, guarding it against those deemed ‘not-at-home’. Their presence in education exposes normativity as arbitrary, while schooling is shaped to form bodies that exclude ‘out-of-placeness’ and prevent its legitimacy from being questioned.
Workshop Catalogues
At Ljubljana Pride Association, we create catalogues of workshops and training programmes for schools, youth organisations, and other institutions and groups that want to build safer, more inclusive, and respectful environments.
Our workshops cover topics such as human rights, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, preventing peer violence and hate speech, inclusion of LGBTIQ+ people, volunteering, and creating spaces where everyone can feel accepted and safe.
The catalogues provide a detailed overview of the content, objectives, and delivery options for individual workshops and training programmes. These can be adapted to the needs of your school, organisation, or group.
PONUDBE DELAVNIC IN IZOBRAŽEVANJ DRUŠTVA PARADA PONOSA (ZA ŠOLE)
Catalogue 2025/2026
Language: Slovenian
Here you will find a selection of workshops and training sessions offered by Ljubljana Pride during the 2025/2026 school year. The workshops explore topics such as creating safer school environments, addressing hate speech, preventing peer violence, fostering inclusion, understanding sexual orientation and gender identity, volunteering, and human rights.
VKLJUČUJEMO LGBTIQ+ MLADE
WORKSHOP AND TRAINING PROGRAMME CATALOGUE BY LJUBLJANA PRIDE
(YOUTH ORGANISATIONS)
Language: Slovenian
Here you will find a selection of workshops and training sessions offered by Ljubljana Pride. The workshops explore topics such as creating safer spaces, fostering inclusion, addressing hate speech, preventing peer violence, sexual orientation and gender identity, volunteering, and human rights.
Together, these topics address what LGBTIQ+ young people need to feel welcome and safe, and to be able to participate fully in the activities of your organisation.