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Email: sofia gayguide.net
Web site: http://sofia.gayguide.net/
Gay tourist information. GayGuide.Net Sofia (since May 2005) provides an up2date internet based gay & travel guide, replies to every email all year round and offers info and reservations for carefully selected gay operated accommodations and a mailing list. English speaking staff. A one stop website for everything you need before, during and after your trip to Sofia. Since 1998 GayGuide.Net operates guide web pages for Budapest and Prague and since 2001 for Warsaw and Cracow.
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1142 Sofia, 3 Vassil Levski Boulevard, Apartment 7, 1st floor
Phone: +359 2 9876872
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(Near National Palace of Culture)
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Organisation
In 1992 Gemini was registred by a HIV positive gay couple. The organization has been the first LGBT organization working for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community and for individuals on a national level in Bulgaria. For the last years BGO Gemini, as a membership organization, is the only LGBT human rights advocate in Bulgaria promoting equal opportunities at all policy and community levels.
Gemini has an office space, located in the centre of Sofia. On Fridays at 6 pm everyone is invited to join an open meeting. Just call for more details. At the office Gemini runs the only LGBT and gender issues library in Bulgaria, consisting of more than 300 articles (books, magazines, scientific publications, manuals, CD`s etc.). Their website has over 110 registered users and about 80 unique visitors per day.
Gemini decribes itself as `the public face and community voice`. As a human rights organization Geminis vision is `a society that accepts difference` and Geminis goal is `the social integration of gay, bisexual, lesbian and transgender people in Bulgaria`.
To reach this goal Gemini is doing lobby work with government officials (there have been meeting with representatives of the European Union and Bulgarian governmental and political institutions, as well as participation in numerous international events) and organizes various social events to raise the profile of the gay, lesbian bisexual and transgender community in Bulgaria. On one side the idea is to build trust between the general society and the LGBT community; on the other Gemini wants to support the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community itself to develop more infrastructure and strenght within the community. This includes safe sex education; and to organize informational, social and other events.
Gemini reached some of their original goals already: In September 2002 the Article 157 of the Penal Code (which prohibited homosexual acts) was repealed. Also the age of consent became equalized as well as the legal status for homosexual and heterosexual prostitution; the penalties for rape; and
homosexual actions in public became decrimilized.
In January 2004 also a law for protection against discrimination came into force which protects LGBT people from discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation in the field of employment (Gemini partnered with other Bulgarian NGOs to reach this goal). Also in January 2004 BGO Gemini with the support of ILGA Europe, COC Netherlands and ACCEPT organized the first international conference on ay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues in Bulgaria: `Preventing and combating discrimination`. The conference was organized under the Balkan Triangle Project and co-funded by ILGA Europe.
Gemini has a action groups network on regional level in the biggest regional cities of Bulgaria. It consist of professional lawyers, sociologists, medical workers, PR and media specialists.
Public meetings Fridays at 6 pm
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Dolphin Gay Club for Naturism and Sport closed 2007 |
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Gay Sport Club
Tangra organizes various sports events, such as sports camps, races, swimming pool competitions. At the moment (October 2004) they have XX members. In 2004 they started volleyball trainings in the sport hall Sofia each Wednesday. Each Friday Badminton training in the sport hall Sofia. Since June 2004 its a registered sport club in the courthouse. They joined the Eurogames 2004 in Munich and took 4 medals. In summer 2005 Tangra will organize of first LGBT sport tournament on the Balcans. It's expected that more than 300 athletes from all over the world will participate in the tournament. Tangra also started sport clubs in Varna and Plovdiv.
Membership fee ?
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Queer Bulgaria closed 2007 |
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Sofia 1592, PO.Box 29
Phone +359 888 217280
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Lesbian
Informal Woman's sport organization promoting several sport disciplines by regular training and competitive life without neglecting the mass sport. Founded in September 2004.
Meetings: Email to request Info
No minimum consumption; No entrance fee.
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Lesbian and Bi-women Resource Centre Bilitis |
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Lesbian
Established in 2001, member of ILGA since 2003. The organization provides various services to lesbian and bisexual women, such as support groups, library, and organization of activities that support community building. The organization works presently only in Sofia, but aims to start local support groups all over Bulgaria in the near future. Its mission is to help lesbians and bisexual women integrate into the social mainstream without compromising their sexual identity. Non-membership organization.
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No minimum consumption; No entrance fee.
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