Tag: Copenhagen Pride

  • Copenhagen calls on its American ‘sister’ to show a more Danish level of tolerance towards LGBTQ+ events

    Following a decision by Solvang – the Californian city that takes pride in calling itself ‘the Danish capital of America’ – to reject several requests from organizers of a Pride event in June, Copenhagen Mayor Sophie Hæstorp Andersen has written. an open letter calls for a reconsideration. Mayor Andersen has called on his colleague Mark…

  • Copenhagen among the most LGBTQ+-friendly capitals in the world

    Copenhagen among the most LGBTQ+-friendly capitals in the world

    Copenhagen has steadily established itself as one of the world’s LGBTQ+ capitals, and it was no surprise when World Pride chose the city to host its 2021 event. Indeed, Copenhagen and neighboring Malmö won the right to also host the EuroGames at the same time, but the restrictions prevented ‘Copenhagen 2021’ from being one of…

  • Culture Round-Up: Move over The Brown Bunny … Danish actor now has the right to receive cinema’s most tasteless blowjob ever

    Culture Round-Up: Move over The Brown Bunny … Danish actor now has the right to receive cinema’s most tasteless blowjob ever

    Danish actor Caspar Phillipson believed the most controversial moment of his career – when he was sued by the London Toast Theater for sneaking to Paris to audition for the role of JFK in ‘Jackie’, even though he was contracted to appear in the Crazy Christmas Cabaret in Tivoli – stood behind him. But he…

  • Play Scrabble with pride!

    Play Scrabble with pride!

    As Copenhagen Pride prepares for the Parade tomorrow afternoon, the capital is lit up in the colors of the rainbow to celebrate and shine a light on the LGBTQ+ community. Scrabble will contribute to this by showing words of love and inclusion in both English and Danish at Arbejdernes Landsbank in Copenhagen. This will be…

  • Local Round-Up: Record number of sailing ships visiting Copenhagen, but a steep drop in cruise ship visitors

    Local Round-Up: Record number of sailing ships visiting Copenhagen, but a steep drop in cruise ship visitors

    The number of ships mooring in Copenhagen’s marinas has never been higher. There have already been 3,200 arrivals this year – a new record. In July several vessels had to share space in some of the better places. City & Harbor could open a new marina“The new record and the large number of visitors show…

  • Denmark is considering proposals to make the monkeypox vaccine more accessible to the LGBT+ community

    Denmark is considering proposals to make the monkeypox vaccine more accessible to the LGBT+ community

    This week, the number of new cases of monkeypox in Denmark has reached 24, which means that the total number of cases so far has reached 105. Men who have strong skin contact with other men are responsible for most cases. Based on this, the LGBT+ community in Denmark believes that the Danish Health Authority’s…

  • Culture Round-Up: Music critic Thomas Treo says ‘Roskilde is dead’

    Culture Round-Up: Music critic Thomas Treo says ‘Roskilde is dead’

    Thomas Treo, the popular and polemical Danish music critic, has blown up Roskilde Festival review for tabloid Ekstra Bladet. “Before, people got smarter in Roskilde,” writes Treo, “Now you get stupider.” “Teenagers have bad taste”Treo blames the organizers for booking artists loved by teenagers when, according to him, “teenagers have bad taste in music”. In…

  • Local Round-Up: Road paved to new city bus terminal

    Local Round-Up: Road paved to new city bus terminal

    Almost 200 buses a dayA new terminal has been on the map for a while now due to the traffic chaos that is hampering cyclists, cars and passengers on Ingerslevsgade by DGI Byen, where they are currently located. The buses serve about 1.4 million passengers annually, and the new terminal is expected to handle about…

  • Children have to wait with legal gender reassignment

    Children have to wait with legal gender reassignment

    The bill that was supposed to pave the way for the possibility is not among those planned for the coming parliamentary year. – In light of the Danish Council of Ethics’ deliberations to the Parliament’s Gender Equality Committee on this issue in particular, the Government has found it necessary to consider further, reads a written…

  • Minister announces proposal for legal gender reassignment

    Minister announces proposal for legal gender reassignment

    It will be presented at the next parliamentary session. The bill that was to pave the way for the possibility was otherwise not among those planned for the coming parliamentary year. In a written response from the Ministry of the Interior to Jyllands-Posten, it was stated that it was necessary for the government to think…

  • Copenhagen 2021: Pride of the World Pride of the World

    Copenhagen 2021: Pride of the World Pride of the World

    It is not much of a surprise that Copenhagen is hosting WorldPride this year. After all, it was named the most queer-friendly city in the world by both the British LGBT Awards and Lonely Planet – a great admirer of the Danish capital’s openness and tolerance It is also home to the world’s oldest gay…

  • Copenhagen 2021: Now we are all here!

    Copenhagen 2021: Now we are all here!

    When Copenhagen 2021 kicks off on 12 August, it will be the culmination of several years of work. In 2015, the team behind the annual Copenhagen Pride Parade began an ambitious plan to bring the largest LGBTI + event in the world – WorldPride – to Copenhagen. Meanwhile, the sports association Pan Idræt had a…

  • Politisk regnbuefest folder sig ud i København

    Politisk regnbuefest folder sig ud i København

    Demonstrationerne blev en vigtig katalysator for kampen for rettigheder for homoseksuelle. Lidt over 50 år senere vil LGBT+-personer gå i Københavns gader for at mødes i Fælledparken. Det kulminerer i Pride-paraden i København, som afslutter den internationale begivenhed WorldPride. København og Malmø er værterne i år. WorldPride holdes for første gang sammen med EuroGames, som…

  • Copenhagen looks set to ‘eradicate’ HIV by 2030

    Copenhagen looks set to ‘eradicate’ HIV by 2030

    Difficult, not impossible Copenhagen will also significantly increase its test capacity, especially within risk groups. For this purpose, the city is looking for sex parties, gay bars, Copenhagen Pride and other arenas in the nightlife to test those who may be infected without knowing it. According to the AIDS Foundation, the task is difficult, but…