HeartCore #13 COME TOGETHER

By Mariya Alfa Staugaard, editor in chief (She/Her) For the 13th time, it is my pleasure to welcome you to our official magazine and to yet another Copenhagen Pride Week! This edition also marks the three year anniversary of HeartCore. A lot has happened since the magazine was founded in 2020 – the world certainly

By Anne Sophie Parsons (She/Her) Matthew Lopez’s 2019 theatre play The Inheritance (in Danish: Arven) showcases the importance of remembering the battles fought – and lost – when it comes to self-acceptance and LGBTI+ rights. Through reminiscing about the AIDS epidemic during the 80s and the resulting trauma it left upon a scarred queer community,

Our human rights group has once again put a tremendous amount of work into creating an exciting and diverse programme that puts the conversation at the centre and creates spaces where we can learn from each other. Here are a few highlights, the full programme can be found here. When did drag become dangerous? In

A chat with three of Copenhagen’s LGBTI+ bars By Mariya Alfa Staugaard (She/Her)Photography by Rikke Høyen (She/Her) There are a number of LGBTI+ bars in Copenhagen, and what could be a better chance to explore them than during Pride Week? We’ve spoken with three bars about the kind of space they’re trying to create for

By Simone Lindvall (she/her) The theme for this year’s Copenhagen Pride Week is COME TOGETHER, and this is reflected in the culture event programme, which features several performances where artists have come together to create something special for the audience. There will also be events that you yourself help create – for example a sing-along

By Mathias Palmqvist Jensen (They/Them) Disclaimer: The quotes in this article are from actual interviews, but we have chosen to anonymise the people interviewed since there are often strong negative reactions against people who speak for separatist spaces. The editorial staff is familiar with the identities of all people interviewed. Separatist: “Someone who, with like-minded

Last year we had the first Copenhagen Pride Youth Night, organised by our amazing youth group. It was a huge success, so this year we’ve stepped it up a notch and organised two Youth Days! So come and join us at Pride Square on Wednesday 16 and Thursday 17 August for a series of talks

Photo: Carl-Johan Paulsens photo series Church at Night. Photographer: Anahit. Models: Guillaume Lamour & Matthieu La-Brossard. Design: Carl-Johan Paulsen Last year, Pride Art planted a seed as Copenhagen Pride launched its first visual art exhibition. With over 4,000 visitors and the receival of the Danish Rainbow Awards art price, the project firmly rooted itself by

Photo: Rikke Høyen When community is strength  By Lars Henriksen (He/Him) ”At last night’s festivities, the courtyard was jammed with people who would in lewd terms shout that the participants were homosexual persons, and in the room several couples in male attire were observed kissing one another while at the same time persons of the

Foto: Beniamin Gorgoń By Ilya Kharkow (He/Him) Trigger warning: This story contains violence and mentions of war.  This is the foreword to a collection of short stories by Ilya Kharkow, a writer from Ukraine. When he asked me if I think that only mentally healthy people can build relationships, I replied that healthy people scare

Photo: News Oresund via Wikimedia Commons By Mathias Palmqvist Jensen (They/Them) Daniel Delove works at The National Hospital (Rigshospitalet) and the night club Den Anden Side (meaning: The Other Side), and he is also an activist and Queer. Daniel is one of the reasons that some vulnerable people get help from the civil society, when

Photo: Mia Harvey via Unsplash Japanese Lesbian Shunga Revisited By Anne Sophie Parsons (she/her) Porn is readily accessible on the internet – the lesbian variety being a mostly frowned upon category amongst queer women for its not all-too realistic portrayal of sex between women. This is not any different for shunga, erotic visual prints produced