By Anne Sophie Parsons When author Karen Stenlev met the Danish Health Care System in the context of undergoing fertility treatment with her wife, she was not prepared to face a wall – all due to her own mental illness. “Be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.” The Biblical[…]
Andre Sanchez-Montoya The Copenhagen based collective known as Group Therapy charts out their vision towards a more inclusive and safer nightlife on a path, we can all follow and dance along on. Our journey as LGBTI+ individuals is rarely a straight line – and our history depicts the arc we have traveled towards self-discovery and[…]
By Anne Sophie Parsons and Maria Rathje Family – can’t live with them, can’t live without them. Family dynamics are portrayed in widely different ways in LGBTI+ films, as exemplified here through The Bird Cage (1996), Theorem (1968), Saving Face (2004), and A Fantastic Woman (2017), but they all revolve around the question of inclusion[…]
‘Slottet’ (eng. ‘The Castle’), Denmark’s first and only LGBTI + nursing home, is celebrating its anniversary. After five years in rainbow colours, headmaster Henriette Højsteen is reminiscing on a weekday that is, most of all, outrageously ordinary. By Liv Rossander “Hi!” With a warm smile, a curly-haired woman steps out of Slottet’s impressive front door.[…]
This article was originally written for INCLUDE Magazine by Martin Dover, published by Copenhagen2021 in 2019 Karen Therkelsen is on a quest to popularize her so-called “parent speed matching” as a method for LGBTI+ people to form a family of their own in a country that prohibits the use of surrogacy. The idea sprung to[…]
By Paulie Calderon-Cifuentes PANDEMIC! RIGHT AHEAD! Rise and shine, fellow Queers. It’s time for your morning meditation, your bowl of oatmeal with berries, bananas, and fiber supplement, your daily skin-care routine, and then out to… Oh, wait a minute… It’s lockdown. Is the anxiety kicking in? Mine is. Do you miss your friends? I do.[…]
By Lee Ravn Kristensen When you feel like you don’t fit in in the world around you, be it due to who you are or what you like, it is invaluable to find an accepting community – even one that’s spread around the world. This is Lee’s story about finding a family in the online[…]
Article and interview by Steve Taylor, Director of Communications for Copenhagen 2021. Heteronormativity probably affects all LGBTI+ people at least once every day. We just get used to it, metaphorically rolling our eyes when we get the inevitable thoughtless question or comment. But for LGBTI+ parents, it can be especially wearing. The emotionally draining comments[…]
One night, I left my friends, and they wondered where I went. I wondered that too. It was supposed to be another night of being hypnotized by beautiful boys’ and their bodacious thighs while dancing all dumb and doubting danger while dosing drugs and drinking with strangers But for the first time in a long[…]
By Mariya Alfa Staugaard The volunteers during Copenhagen Pride Week are known as volunqueers. All it takes to volunteer is a profound respect for our values and the community between shared by LGBTI+ people and as well as allies. Copenhagen Pride Week would not be what it is today, had it not been for the[…]
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