Swedish Pri means a month or more of paras, talks, and other celebratns for the untry's gay, trans and queer muny and alli. Here are five thgs to know about Pri one of the world's most LGBTQ-iendly untri.
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PRI MONTH 2019 | WORLD’S BIGGT GAY PARAS & LGBTQ MARCH
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Lookg further back, this year is also the 75th anniversary of the crimalizatn of homosexualy. Fightg homophobia Photo: Stian Lysberg Solum.
In 2019, two events that a broad sense ncern LGBTQ people (lbians, gays, bisexuals, trans persons and queers) took place and around Gothenburg, the send-largt cy Swen. 2018), by natns to wash away the untry’s image of beg homophobic, so-lled pkwashg, and to build an image of the natn as morn and tolerant, so-lled homonatnalism (Puar 2007; Alm and Martsson 2016; Laskar et al.
The figure of ‘the whe gay monogamo person’ is hijacked—and fetishised—by the natnalist forc. Judh Butler’s well-known words about the cravg of LGBTQ people and movements for regnn om the state pot at how the need for legimatn and equal rights risks creatg a figuratn of ‘the good sexual cizen’/‘the good and right homosexual body’, and thereby excludg other, ls worthy subjects (Butler 2004). When homosexualy be a qutn of equal rights based on inty, as many celebratns of Pri, cludg Öckerö Pri, sexual cizenship risks beg dividualised, discipled and sexualised (Blanc 2013).
CATEGORY:GAY PRI SWEN
In celebratn of Swen's Pri Month, let's dive to all thgs LGBTQIA+. While Pri celebratns have been full swg the US sce July, Swen don't celebrate until Augt. So I thought this is the perfect time to dive to all thgs ncerng gay rights Swen. While still not perfect, Swen is workg… * gay pride sweden 2019 *
Sce so many alli, anisatns, polil parti and bs are participatg Pri paras and wavg rabow flags, the para and the rabow flag are no longer necsarily signs of one’s lbianism, gayns, transinty or queerns. Even though the attacks are beyond the spe of this article, they are a fundamental background to both the events and my reflectns upon my own participatn is a untry, which, together wh Norway, Denmark, Netherlands and Canada, is often emed to be one of the world’s most tolerant of homosexualy. Even though Swen has e a long way (note my e of a lear timeame) regardg laws and official polici, LGBTQ people are still h by homophobic actns and many are still not open about their sexual intifitn, pecially not at work or public (Björk and Wahlström 2018).
Further, they pot to the temporal and spatial assumptns that permeate the metronormative stori about queers leavg the ral and enterg the urban orr to enjoy ‘eedom as gays’. The future, and the lotn where you n unfold your gayns (ibid.
The pla prence of LGBT(Q) bodi the public sphere is provotive non-gay-iendly ntexts (Peterson et al. 2018) and the more gay-iendly a ntext, the bigger the arsenal of dramaturgil tools (e. In the two s analysed for this chapter the goals are very different; the anisers of Öckerö Pri want to have a broad reach, te ‘ordary people’ and normalise homosexualy (even if there are aspects that work the oppose directn); at Reclaim Pri the aim is to offer a polil alternative to the ordary Wt Pri and offer a safe place for queers of different kds.