Our method for achieving change
We achieve change through legal regulation, the provision of pro bono legal services, strategic litigation, and advocacy aimed at achieving legislative reform.
Deystvie is a human rights non-governmental organization with a mission to contribute to sustainable change in the lives of LGBTIQ+ people in Bulgaria.
Our vision is the full legal recognition and social inclusion of LGBTIQ+ people in society.
WE LEAD
strategic litigation and engage in advocacy to achieve legislative change
WE PROVIDE
free legal aid and representation before national and international courts
WE ORGANISE
public events, protests, and marches: Sofia Pride, Sofia Pride Film Fest, Sofia Human Rights Forum, March for Equality, Women’s Rights March
WE TRAIN
public administration, private companies, and active citizens
THE BEGINNING
2010 - 2014
We started as an informal group of like-minded people who organised individual actions such as the protest against the municipal ordinance banning homosexuality in Pazardzhik, an information campaign in the underpass of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski,” and bike rides.
In 2012, we organized the first LGBTIQ+ music festival in Bulgaria, featuring over 20 artists. This colourful weekend ended with a single jar full of donations, which allowed us to register the “Youth LGBT Organization Deystvie” in the Sofia City Court.
Since 2014, Deystvie’s Legal Program has been launched as the organisation’s core philosophy — a strategy for achieving lasting change in the negative social environment through legislative reform.
