Like, there are a lot of reasons why I don’t post selfies anymore. A big part of it is that the last three years of my life have been hell, and it shows, and I can’t quite reconcile myself with that reality yet.
But also, the closer we get to an absolutely explicitly authoritarian government, and a brutality-first police force emboldened by both a government that backs them and a judiciary now heavily stacked towards supporting them, I know full well that all it takes is a few more twitches further to the reichright… and all it will take is some cop who knows they won’t suffer consequences to face ID me, see my history, and come up with an excuse to hassle me.
To say nothing of when right-wing shithead hate groups get their hands on this in future decades.
I can’t fucking believe it. My home country, Slovenia, has not only legalized gay marriage and adoption, but the constitutional court actually changed the constitution so that it won’t refer to the sex or gender of the spouses anymore.
This really came out of nowhere. I certainly didn’t see it coming!
It took ages. There was this one very significant marriage equality referendum I attended when I was in uni that actuality got passed…only to be repealed by another referendum weeks later after some very disturbing country-wide fear-mongering campaigns by a group that literally called itself “It’s About The Children”.
I still remember that awful feeling. It really felt like it would never happen again. Like it was a lost cause. Like everything LGBTQ+ activists may build will always get burned down again by bigots (especially those in the Catholic church). I’m glad I was proven wrong.
The best part is that, if the constitution is changed with the intent to abolish unconstitutional laws regarding human rights and freedoms, this cannot be challenged via referendum.
So, as far as I understand it, this is it. Marriage and adoption equality in Slovenia has been achieved and secured 🌈🎉
