Irena Joveva expressed her support for the organized LGBTIQ+ movement in Slovenia and participated at the 20th Pride Parade. Organizers note that progress on LGBTIQ+ rights has stagnated in recent years, and hatred against the LGBTIQ+ community has intensified.
The demands and political messages of this year’s Ljubljana Pride Parade focused mainly on the areas of access to health services, unregulated legal areas, requirements in the field of social security, the joint struggle of various movements and conditions in the field of social inclusion of LGBTIQ+ people. The organizers are also critical of the intensification of repression against LGBTIQ+ people, which is taking place simultaneously as the attacks on the basics of democracy, such as freedom of the media, division of power, free public expression of disagreement and transparent elections. In Slovenia, they observe the sympathy of political representatives with the policy of t. i. Visegrad groups. Joveva, whose work in politics is based on overcoming a culture of hatred, attended the parade to support the LGBTIQ+ movement and raise awareness among the general population about diversity, its acceptance and destigmatization of various social groups.
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