ŠKUC, the student cultural centre association, has been at Stari trg 21 since the seventies, and this is where organised queer life in Slovenia started. Its gay branch Magnus put on the first LGBT film festival here in 1984, which makes it the oldest festival of its kind in Europe and the oldest international film festival in the country. Klub Tiffany, Klub Monokel and the lesbian library all sit under the same association.
The building holds ŠKUC Gallery, a contemporary art space with a courtyard that has been showing work since 1978, and the association's bookshop. Two LGBT publishing houses run from here: Lambda for gay writing and Vizibilija for lesbian writing. Between them they have published a large share of the Slovenian queer literature that exists, and both catalogues are on the shelves and online.
The association also runs Roza alarm, an online reporting system for violence, abuse and discrimination against LGBT people in Slovenia. Reports can be made anonymously, and help, counselling and advocacy follow from there.
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