Photo: N&J Photos By Kira Olsen (She/Her)This name is a pseudonym. The editorial staff is familiar with the writer’s identity. Through the ages, a boundless amount of stupidity has been thought and uttered on queers and queerness. But fortunately, we’re getting smarter all the time, and here’s the proof: Five concepts that have thoroughly flatlined,[…]
Author: Steve Taylor
Bury Your Gays
By Mie Hald (She/Her) Almost every Queer person knows the feeling: The hope that your favorite rainbow character of your current TV obsession will survive to the end. Unfortunately, if there’s a chance of death, the alphabet mafia is often on the line… In recent years, it’s become more common to find media like TV[…]
Requiem for a cracked birch
This is a short story by Ilya Kharkow, a writer from Ukraine. You can find more of Ilyas work on his website here. Trigger warning: This story mentions war, suicide, and sexual assault. I decided to buy grey clothes, after the words of a Polish guy. This was our third meeting, and at the very[…]
Wanted: Head of Parade
As Head of Parade at Copenhagen Pride, you will be in charge of running Denmark’s largest and most colourful human rights manifestation, which for more than 25 years has brought the fight for equality and diversity to the streets of Frederiksberg and Copenhagen. Your tasks will include leading a volunteer parade team that will plan[…]
The queer vampire comes out of the coffin
By C.A. Wolters (They/Them)Photography by Cesar Maldonado A big thank you to Den Anden Side for letting us use their club as a location for the photoshoot and to dMasque for lending us the Pleaser boots and harness worn by Barbera. Blade, Drucilla, Damian, Nadja of Antipaxos and Edward Cullen – what do they have[…]
Poem: Death is final, Pride is forever
By Tilde Haar (She/Her) Hey Mom, I didn’t just get your teeth hands sense of justice I only regret not getting to talk about another thing we share We mistook you for an ally But really you were not only that You must have known we would find this proof of what we always[…]
A big melancholic world: Interview with Ilya Kharkow
By Ilya Kharkow (He/Him), Louise Østergaard Sørensen (She/Her), and Mariya Alfa Staugaard (She/Her) Throughout 2023, HeartCore has collaborated with Ilya Kharkow to publish three of his short stories: Port Street in the Eyes of Daniel, Conversations in Polish Detroit, and Requiem for a Cracked Birch. For this final publication of his work in HeartCore, we[…]
Pride Week Highlights
Thank you for an amazing Copenhagen Pride Week 2023! Thank you to all of you who chose to #ComeTogether to the debates, concerts, parties, conversations, films, experiences – to fight and to celebrate, which is what Pride is all about. And an especially big thank you to our Volunqueers, who have worked tirelessly to create[…]
Shortcut to writing your will
We’re very good at getting insurance on a lot of areas in life: House, car, accidents, animals, household, health. But paradoxically, very few of us consider insuring our last wishes – through a will. Writing a will can be difficult for many people – it can be hard to talk about, but it does not[…]
General Meeting 2023
Copenhagen Pride will hold its Annual General Meeting on Thursday 30 November at 17.00 at Farvergade 2 according to the following preliminary agenda: The finalised agenda, as well as the wording of proposals received, will be posted on the association’s website no later than 7 days before the general meeting: www.copenhagenpride.dk. Proposals for the general[…]