The Vikgs are famo for their fierce warrr culture, and rich pantheon of gods and godss, but are you aware that the Nordic Vikgs had elements of a gay liftyle their society?
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NORDIC VIKG AND THEIR GAY LIFTYLE: HISTORY AND HOMOSEXUALY
Wh BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Ftival upon , we ntue our celebratn of queer cema wh a look at some of the bt lbian, gay and trans films om Sndavia and the Nordic untri. * nordic gay *
Wh BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Ftival upon , we ntue our celebratn of queer cema wh a look at some of the bt lbian, gay and trans films om Sndavia and the Nordic untri. Four were among the first natns to legalise gay marriage (Fland took a ltle longer, fally jog the club 2017), and Iceland beme the first untry to have an openly gay head of ernment (Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, 2009).
Swedish melodrama The Wgs (1916), more than half of which has been sadly lost, is one of the first films to feature a gay storyle.
Bergman’s pictn of female homosexualy was seldom flatterg – see the predatory lbian Three Strange Lov (1949) or the possible readg of lbianism lkg to mental illns Persona (1966). The lite melancholy of the film, and s bleak pictn of a sad, possibly gay girl, make for a disquietg if rewardg viewg experience.
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Daddy and the Mcle Amy (1991)The erotic gay drawgs of Too Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Fland, are one of the Sndavian pensula’s most famo queer exports, and this documentary, the only film to feature the man himself, is a handy entry to his work and reer.