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Welcome to the online version of Loading: Love - an exhibition that reveals the unknown stories of forbidden love over the past hundred years that still have a lot to teach us today.
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Cafés, flats and even parks - the secret meeting places of sexual minorities

"They live among us"

"Pay up or I'll expose you for being gay!"

Hlas Sexuální Menšiny: The Magazine That Gave a Voice to Queer People

The homosexual press in interwar Czechoslovakia

Jiří Karásek from Lvovice: To blur the rainbow above you

Imrich Matyáš: the man who wanted to free even the inactive

The story of a Bratislava civil servant, publicist and pioneer of queer emancipation in Slovakia.

Magnus Hirschfeld and Our European "Stonewalls"

Magnus Hirschfeld, Imrich Matyáš and the tradition we follow

Anders als die Andern: a film that sought to change the law

Andrej Kuruc: “Queer activinsm can be very creative. From theatre to psychological support"

Andrej Kuruc arrived in Bratislava as a student who had never met an LGBT person before. He called the helpline from the phone at the dormitory reception desk. A few years later, he co-founded a theater and organized Rainbow Pride.

Romana Schlesinger: “First Pride and first community center. It took a lot, but I'd do it again”

Romana Schlesinger was one of the founders of modern queer activism in Slovakia. She joined the movement by chance—and within a few months, she was sitting at the same table with people whose books she had only read years earlier. She then organized Slovakia’s first Pride.

Christián Havlíček: “We built safety in spaces where nothing existed before”

Christián Havlíček is a psychologist and a transgender man who spent years building something that was virtually nonexistent in Slovakia—a safe space for transgender and nonbinary people.

Roman Samotný: “Tepláreň was never just a bar, it was a home”

Roman Samotný founded Tepláreň. Fifteen years ago, it started as a one-time party focused on queer music; later, it became a bar in downtown Bratislava—and gradually evolved into a place that has become a home for the Slovak LGBTI+ community. This is his story.

Mocsonaki László (*1955)

„The reason I didn't make a report because I didn't want to expose myself to the police, where I would be victimized again.”

Láner László (*1956)

“Many didn't dare to buy the magazine: I know for a fact that sometimes one person bought it and 10 people read it.”

Kymi (*1950)

“In the middle of my 20s, I could say to myself that I am a lesbian. And that's where I got stuck. I got stuck because what next?”

Juhász Ildikó (*1953)

“It somehow didn't fit the image of life in socialism that such people exist.”

Cseri Mihály (*1954)

“I was the first drag queen to perform at the Sziget Festival.”

Matyáš covers staggering stories of people struggling with homosexuality

Words of wisdom from Imrich Matyáš

Imrich Matyáš's forty years of activism

Two very rare photos of same sex couples

The noble mission of "The Friendship Society" (est. 1932)

Blackmailing and threats fuel movement to decriminalise homosexuality (1924 - 1928)

"America – the world of homosexuals" — an article in Večerník (1967)

"They live among us" — Mladý Svět magazine publishes rare educational article on homosexuality (1973)

A piece of advice in the Život magazine (around 1980)

"Ginsberg Causes Upheaval" — an article in Pravda magazine (1965)

"I am a homosexual. Is it socially tolerated?" ⁠— an article in Práca magazine (1972)

Drama and shaming — the media covers homosexuality between 1912 and 1989

First mentions of homosexuality (1852 - 1923)

Scientific literature covers homosexuality (1924 - 1931)

World War II - The giant backward leap (1939-1945)

The communist era and the slowly changing social climate (1948 - 1989)

The rise of queer organizations and Budapest Pride (1990 - 2000)

Legislation finally sees change (2001 - 2009)

The age of Pride - fight for true equality begins (2010-present)
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