The article presents basic methodological dilemmas and results of the researchproject on everyday life of gays and lesbians in Slovenia, carried outby the authors of the paper in the period 2002-2004. The project is a combination of qualitative and quantitative methodology. The quantitative partconsisted of a 35 to 70 minutes long face-to-face survey on a sample of 443 gays and lesbians. Sampling was done by link-tracing method. Qualitative part consisted of 7 focus groups, where 36 people were interviewed. The topicsresearched in the quantitative part were the following: homosexual identity and coming-out; partnership; violence and discrimination; school and education; working place; GLBT subculture and media; children and family relations. The qualitative part focused on the selected topics: coming-out, partnership, and violence.
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