Radio show Lezbomanija

Lezbomanija is a monthly radio show on Radio Študent. It has been aired continually since 1998; at first, it was edited by Nataša Sukič, and after 2015, by Urška Sterle. The show discusses the lesbian, but also wider LGBT community, policy, and culture. Every edition brings local and international news and a deep insight into a current topic accompanied by topical music. 

Due to the lack of financing, the LGBT media in Slovenia have a hard time maintaining a continuous existence: for almost every year of Lezbomanija’s existence, we could enumerate one LGBT publication that stopped being published. If we add to that the shrinkage of the media space under the current government, pressures on journalists, the commercialisation of the media, long-running attempts to shut down Radio Študent, and hate speech towards the LGBT community, which in the mainstream media often finds its place under the pretext of balanced reporting, more than two decades of uninterrupted broadcasting of the lesbian show prove to be an exceptional achievement. Lezbomanija not only reports about lesbian and LGBT culture but also co-creates it. It offers it a space where it can develop, write its own history and (self-)criticism; it is a space for content from the community for the community, and is part of a radio station listened to by the wider public. Thus, Radio Študent and Lezbomanija communicate that the lesbian community is an indispensable part of the wider cultural, progressive, and alternative scene.