Suici rat fall after gay marriage legalised Swen and Denmark | LGBTQ+ rights | The Guardian

Contents:

• THE TIME SWES CALLED GAY TO WORK 1979
• DID PROTTG SWES REALLY CALL SICK 1979, CLAIMG THEY “FELT GAY”?
• THE MAKG OF A RISK OBJECT: AIDS, GAY CIZENSHIP AND THE MEANG OF BLOOD DONATN SWEN THE EARLY 1980S
• SUICI RAT FALL AFTER GAY MARRIAGE LEGALISED SWEN AND DENMARK

THE TIME SWES CALLED GAY TO WORK 1979

Homosexualy was nsired a mental illns many untri as late as the mid-20th century—if was not classified as an outright crime. Even Swen, that Sndavian bastn of openns and equaly, intified beg gay as a disorr as late as year, a group of Swes took advantage of the legal amework that ma beg gay an illns and lled sick to work, claimg their homosexualy as the reason.

DID PROTTG SWES REALLY CALL SICK 1979, CLAIMG THEY “FELT GAY”?

One woman, om the southern provce of Smålanven, managed to get Social Secury benefs for llg gay. Callg gay was part of a larger prott om the RFSL, the Swedish Feratn for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Rights. Swen crimalized homosexualy 1944, but acrdg to the Natnal Board of Health and Welfare, which velops health standards, was still a disease.

THE MAKG OF A RISK OBJECT: AIDS, GAY CIZENSHIP AND THE MEANG OF BLOOD DONATN SWEN THE EARLY 1980S

As a b of ntext, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn announced that would no longer nsir homosexualy a mental disorr 1973, though ntued to e “sexual orientatn disturbance” to tegorize dividuals who felt distrsed by their sexual orientatn (among other odd disorrs) up wh the lack of tractn was gag through tradnal letter and phone mpaigns, RFSL planned to occupy the Natnal Board buildg as a monstratn agast pathologizg homosexualy. On Augt 29, durg the middle of Stockholm’s “Homosexual Liberatn Week” (which later beme known as Stockholm Pri), RFSL protters gathered to block the stairs of the Natnal Board buildg, chantg and wavg banners. In late October of 1979, the Natnal Board classified homosexualy as a disease, makg Swen the first European untry to do so.

That turned out to be the se for a tweet that has circulated om var acunts over the last year, which claims: “Homosexualy was still classified as an illns Swen 1979. Acrdg to the RFSL webse, although homosexualy was legalized Swen 1944, 1979 was still classified as a mental illns. Most didn’t want to be known that they were gay, but a few did ed ll sick, claimg that they were unable to work bee they were homosexual.

SUICI RAT FALL AFTER GAY MARRIAGE LEGALISED SWEN AND DENMARK

RFSL says that only a few people lled sick, of whom jt one managed to qualify for paid leave on the basis of her homosexualy. Jt a year ago, there seemed few official obstacl left the way of young people who wanted genr reassignment the tumn of 2018, the Social Democrat-led ernment, unr prsure om the gay, lbian and transgenr group RFSL, proposed a new law which would rce the mimum age for sex reassignment medil re om 18 to 15, remove all need for parental nsent, and allow children as young as 12 to change their legal March last year, the backlash started. The Swedish Feratn for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer and Intersex Rights, is a non-prof anizatn found 1950.