Gay Swen | LGBTQ+ Travel Gui, Swen Gay Rights & Safety Tips

Contents:

• THE TIME SWES CALLED GAY TO WORK 1979
• GAY SWEN TRAVEL GUI
• GAY MALMö TRAVEL GUI – SOUTHERN SWEN
• HOW TO SAY GAY SWEDISH

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.

GAY SWEN TRAVEL GUI

One woman, om the southern provce of Smålanven, managed to get Social Secury benefs for llg gay.

GAY MALMö TRAVEL GUI – SOUTHERN SWEN

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.

HOW TO SAY GAY SWEDISH

In late October of 1979, the Natnal Board classified homosexualy as a disease, makg Swen the first European untry to do so. Where were all the gay bars?

And where exactly, if Stockholm is so gay, were the drag queens? Stockholm's gay scene seemed poorer than my boyiend had expected. Did he as a foreigner thk I was livg some kd of gay utopia?

Here is what every LGBTQ tourist visg Stockholm should 's a handful of gay bars--lerally. Coupled wh s brandg as a gay-iendly travel statn, a queer tourist might be surprised by the limed LGBTQ nightlife.

While there will always be somethg open on any given night, don't expect to have more than 5-10 gay bars or clubs to choose om. Ined, when surg the web for Stockholm gay guis, many of the remend bars, rtrants and clubs are not specifilly LGBTQ oriented (but rather "gay-iendly") Wimark, PhD and rearcher at Stockholm Universy, has wrten extensively about the geographi of LGBTQ dividuals and their migratn patterns.

Wimark thks part of the "blame" for the lack of gay tablishment li wh Swedish society's general LGBTQ tolerance.

Add to this the general crease the need for mercial plac due to Grdr and you get a small queer mercial scene, " says by Yury Dmrienko / ShutterstockThere's no soon as they're ready to leave their hotel room, many a gay tourist will head straight to their statn's "gayborhood"--an LGBT-iendly oasis wh a high ncentratn of queer tablishments one place. While the island of Sormalm is sometim lled the "gayt" area of the cy, Stockholm has no gay enclave that would make fdg new spots and movg between them easier.

You'll have to rearch (or ask around for) plac be prepared to travel to get to no gayborhood? "A metropolis like that has a vibrant queer muny and queer mercial scene due to s sheer populatn size, and for havg been known as a gay mec to migrate to for a long time.