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Contents:

• THE SWEDISH ARMY IS LOOKG FOR A FEW GOOD QUEERS S NEW GAY-FRIENDLY AD CAMPAIGN
• SWEDISH ARY SAYS SUPPORTG GAY PRI PARAS IS AS IMPORTANT AS FENDG THE UNTRY
• BACKLASH AFTER SWEN’S ARMY SAYS PURPOSE OF MILARY IS TO DEFEND GAY RIGHTS
• SWEDISH MILARY SAYS SUPPORTG GAY PRI JT AS IMPORTANT AS DEFENDG COUNTRY
• RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
• LBIAN GAY BI-SEXUAL TRANSGENR (LGBT) PERSONNEL: A MILARY CHALLENGE

THE SWEDISH ARMY IS LOOKG FOR A FEW GOOD QUEERS S NEW GAY-FRIENDLY AD CAMPAIGN

It shows how LGBT policy has veloped Swen startg 1944, when homosexual acts were -crimalized, and analyz how sexualy and genr inty has been scribed and regulated ary policy.

SWEDISH ARY SAYS SUPPORTG GAY PRI PARAS IS AS IMPORTANT AS FENDG THE UNTRY

General Acuntg Office report om the early 1990s (GAO 1993), which reviewed policy steps regardg homosexuals the ary 25 natns, cludg argue that the relevance of policy, practice, and disurse on LGBT the ary extends far beyond the ary ntext self. Here, masculy was (and is) actively and nscly nstcted and nsolidated, oftentim relatn and ntrast to notns of femy, as well as, late morn history, homosexualy (Bulmer 2011; Connell 2009; Hearn and Park 1995; Herbert 1998; Higate 2003; Kronsell 2012) most of the perd studied here, the SAF was the largt to send-largt state employer the natn (SCB annual seri). Furthermore, there is a risk that the acronym nceals that bat, policy, and activist work on LGBT rights have primarily attend to the rights of lbians and, particular, gays, while bisexuals and transgenr people have been margalized and largely renred visible.

In terms of lbian, gay and bisexuals’ rights, a key policy step was taken 1944 when same-sex sexual relatns—or fornitn agast nature as had been referred to Swedish law sce 1864—were -crimalized, followg a refn public bate of homosexuals as mentally ill rather than sners (Lennerhed 2002; Rydström 2003). While the -crimalizatn put an end to prosecutn on the ground of same-sex sexual relatns, homosexualy remaed the subject of extensive social stigma, wh homophobia growg the 1950s (Lennerhed 1994; Rydström 2007, 2012). Enterg the 1970s, the natn’s largt and most fluential gay and lbian rights activist anizatn, the RFSL (the Swedish Feratn for Sexual Equaly)—found 1950—was policized and tensified s stggle agast discrimatn.

In the fall of 1979, 25 years after the -crimalizatn, homosexualy was -medilized when was removed om the Swedish Classifitn of Diseas (Socialstyrelsen 1979).

BACKLASH AFTER SWEN’S ARMY SAYS PURPOSE OF MILARY IS TO DEFEND GAY RIGHTS

Meanwhile, a missn had been appoted by the ernment to “propose measur which are need orr to remove any remag discrimatn of homosexuals” as well as “pile and give an acunt of available scientific documentatn about homosexualy” (SOU 1984:63, p 29, translatn by Rydström 2007, p.

SWEDISH MILARY SAYS SUPPORTG GAY PRI JT AS IMPORTANT AS DEFENDG COUNTRY

The proposals of the missn would a few years later rult the addn of “homosexual orientatn” to the grounds of discrimatn prohibed the Swedish penal (SFS 1987:610), as well as a new act on unmarried habe, givg habe same-sex and oppose-sex partnership the same legal stat (Rydström 2004). In tanm, a new public office—the Ombudsman agast Discrimatn on the Basis of Sexual Orientatn (officially abbreviated “HomO”, pun tend)–was tablished orr to monor and promote pliance wh the newly approved Anti-Discrimatn Act (Rydström 2000) this perd, transgenr rights were to a large extent margalized.

RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN

Durg both of them, the tablished ways of reprentg homosexualy as a problem were disloted and re-negotiated signifint First Turn SAF LGBT Policy (1971–1979)A signifint fdg is that  Swen, unlike many other natns (see e.

LBIAN GAY BI-SEXUAL TRANSGENR (LGBT) PERSONNEL: A MILARY CHALLENGE

Wh very few exceptns, the bate durg this perd ncerned gay men, while lbians and transgenr people (be they lbian, gay, bisexual or heterosexual) were largely left out of the policymakg greatt challeng durg this perd were posed by the RFSL. Begng 1971, the RFSL lled to qutn a number of SAF matters, cludg an alleged statement by the Supreme Commanr disapprovg of homosexuals  mandg posns (RFSL 1972a) and the pictn of homosexuals as potential spi a booklet produced by the police, Secury Servic and the Armed Forc a jot actn (Säkerhetsupplysng.