introduction

Dear reader, or should I say… dear (future) Pride organizer!

The Guide for Pride is our heartfelt project based on an idea that inspired us to create something we can pass on to everyone who wants to start or continue to engage in the human rights movement by supporting LGBTQIA+ rights through pride parades. However, fi rst and foremost, it’s important that we make one thing clear.

We don’t want to promote the idea that we have created the ultimate, has-to-be-done-like-that, weknow-everything rulebook that everyone has to follow.

The following suggestions, guidelines, recommendations and instructions are based on our own experiences, knowledge, perception and preferences. We organized the fi rst Pride in Maribor, Slovenia, in a way that felt right, in a way that we felt is going to have the biggest possible impact on the LGBTQIA+ communities in our society.

There are diff erent laws and mindsets, and that’s why we don’t have all the answers! But we loved the idea of helping other organizers in some way, so we simply had to create this guide.

We saw and felt fi rsthand the meaning a pride parade can have for a community, both LGBTQIA+ and others. We wish you all the best on the path to creating a more accepting, loving and caring society, as well as a better future for all of us and every generation that follows.