This paper draws upon my fieldwork at the Festival of Gay and Lesbian Film in Ljubljana to examine how “Europeanness” is used to ground the legitimacy of minoritarian organizations, but also to question the assumptions implicit in such claims to belonging. I argue that the discourse of Europeanness is used in similarly ambivalent ways in both Slovenian LGBT activism and official Slovenian politics: for political and institutional legitimization that also performs a distancing from the post-Yugoslav region. This discursive distancing serves to hide the constant processes of negotiation of belonging within the EU as well as ongoing practical cooperation and communication within the post-Yugoslav region. Attention to such strategic tensions opens up a possibility of formulating a critique of the discourse that posits Europeanization as the only possible future for the region and Europe as an imagined space of tolerance for minorities.

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拆除欧洲化的地理时间性：第一个欧洲男女同性恋电影节是南斯拉夫

这篇论文借鉴了我在卢布尔雅那男女同性恋电影节上的实地考察，研究了“欧洲性”如何被用来为少数派组织的合法性奠定基础，同时也质疑这种归属感所隐含的假设。我认为，在斯洛文尼亚 LGBT 激进主义和斯洛文尼亚官方政治中，欧洲性的话语以类似的矛盾方式使用：政治和制度合法化也与后南斯拉夫地区保持距离。这种话语疏远有助于掩盖欧盟内部归属的持续谈判过程以及后南斯拉夫地区内正在进行的实际合作和交流。