Homosexualy was still classified as an illns Swen 1979. Swes protted by llg sick to work, claimg they felt gay.
Contents:
- THE TIME SWES CALLED GAY TO WORK 1979
- DID PROTTG SWES REALLY CALL SICK 1979, CLAIMG THEY “FELT GAY”?
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. One woman, om the southern provce of Smålanven, managed to get Social Secury benefs for llg gay.
DID PROTTG SWES REALLY CALL SICK 1979, CLAIMG THEY “FELT 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. 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.