Copenhagen Pride Week 2018 / English

COPENHAGEN PRIDE WEEK

PROGRAM

2018 GL EN

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14. August – 19. August

PRIDE WEEK

2018

GRAPHIC DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION Kathrine Dahl Nielsen TRANSLATION proudly sponsored by Tolkegruppen Oversættergruppen P/S

WELCOME TO

COPENHAGEN

Copenhagen Pride Week goes down from August 14. - 19. and this is the full program which includes free concerts, debates, workshops, seminars, parties and activities all aiming to celebrate love and diversity and to create a platform from which we can gain more knowledge and share our mutual experiences.

Our human rights program this year is bigger than ever before with several more venues than previous years. Besides the debate tent on Regnbuepladsen (the Rainbow Square) and Brasserie Royal, our program also takes place at the City Hall, in Vartov and at AIDS-Fondet in Vestergade. A map of locations can be found inside. The board of Copenhagen Pride wishes to give a loud and proud shout-out to the amazing team of volunteers who has worked intensely over the last 6 months with planning and organising the human rights program.

This year again we transform the City Hall Square into Pride Square from Tuesday 14. August until Saturday 18. August. Pride Square is open daily from noon and you can meet LGBT Danmark, AIDS-Fondet, Sabaah, Homoware, Wella, New York Pride, Stolichnaya, Barefoot Wine, LO & FTF, Cock’s & Cows, 7-Eleven and Pan Idræt along with several other partners who are present at Pride Square throughout the week.

On stage we are especially proud of presenting a line-up of amazing Danish artists including Anne Linnet, Ida Corr, Iris Gold, L.I.G.A, Kill J and Jonezy. On Saturday we also look forward to seeing queer hip hop artist Zebra Katz conquer Pride Stage followed by legendary DJ Robin Skouteris who once again will be the closing act on Pride Stage. For those of you who still haven’t gotten enough, the official Pride Party will take place at Pumpehuset in Studiestræde.

Copenhagen Pride Week is only possible because we have a lot of partners and sponsors who choose to support us financially and in other ways. For this support we are truly grateful, and we hope that you will pay attention to the organisations, brands and companies that come out and support us while celebrating the core values that are in the very heart of Copenhagen Pride. And on that note we also want thank Tolkegruppen Oversættergruppen P/S for translating the Copenhagen Pride Week Program 2018.

We also urge you to buy our support wristband for 50 DKK and to quench your thirst in our bars on Pride Square. By doing so you are helping us directly and supporting your pride.

We have done our very best to put together a diverse program with a broad representation, and we hope the following pages are full of activities and events that you do not want to miss.

We look forward to seeing you for Copenhagen Pride Week 2018!

Lots of love from

A big thanks to our main sponsors:

PROGRAM OVERVIEW VENUE

DEBATE TENT

HUMAN RIGHTS VENUE

BRASSERIE ROYAL

HUMAN RIGHTS VENUE

HOVEDKASSEN

HUMAN RIGHTS VENUE

TUESDAY 14/08

WEDNESDAY 15/08

14:00 - 14:15 Opening of the Human Rights Programme

14:00 - 14:45 LGBT+ seniors and nursing staff

14:15 - 14:45 Diversity or tolerance?

15:00 - 15:45 Drags in the Pride

15:00 - 16:00 Perspectives on Nordic cooperation

16:00 - 16:45 Health inequality amongst WSW

16:15 - 17:00 Conditional love

16:45 - 17:00 Brush-up

17:00 - 17:45 Did we swipe intimacy to death?

17:00 - 17:45 Loneliness and shame

18:00 - 18:45 Asexual in a sexual society

18:00 - 18:45 Political parties at Pride – cheap PR?

19:00 - 20:00 Youth political debate

19:00 - 19:45 Shame on you!

14:00 - 14:45 Trans monologue

14:00 - 14:45 Fighting HIV infection

15:00 - 15:45 Chemsex – addicted to drugs or to sex?

15:00 - 15:45 Transgender children and youths

14:00 - 14:45 Room for everyone in football – also LGBTs?

14:00 - 14:45 The mic is yours!

15:00 - 15:45 Drag for beginners

15:00 - 15:45 Not a heterosexual – but then what?

16:00 - 16:45 Inclusiveness and the use of language

16:00 - 16:45 LGBT history

17:00 - 17:45 Norm-critics at children’s level

17:00 - 17:45 Diversity and everyday life for transgender kids

18:00 - 18:45 LGBTQI family formation

18:00 - 18:45 Femme-shaming, sexual culture and Grindr

19:00 - 19:45 A need for separatist spaces?

19:00 - 19:45 Minority stresses

MOJO BLUES BAR

HUMAN RIGHTS VENUE 17:00 - 18:30 How can you become sex-positive again?

VARTOV

19:00 - 20:30 The many faces of orgasms

SEX - AND BODY POSITIVISM VENUE

AIDS-FONDET

SEX - AND BODY POSITIVISM VENUE

17:00 - 19:00 Tantra mini workshop

17:00 - 19:00 BDSM / Power Exchange workshop

19:30 - 21:00 Workshop about intimacy and closeness

19:30 - 21:00 Anal sex 102

THURSDAY 16/08

FRIDAY 17/08

14:00 - 14:45 Intersex children grow up as intersex adults – and then what?

14:00 - 14:30 Queer Cinema and Media in South Asia

15:00 - 15:45 Global wins in the struggle for LGBT+ rights

14:45 - 15:45 Are LGBTQ+ youths advantaged or at-risk?

16:00 - 16:45 Let’s Talk About Race!

16:00 - 16:45 Gender, equality and norm-critics in the welfare education

16:45 - 17:00 Brush-up

16:45 - 17:00 Brush-Up

17:00 - 17:45 Inclusivity or institutionalised discrimination?

17:00 - 17:45 Overlooked in the health sector

18:00 - 19:45 Copenhagen 2021: WorldPride & EuroGames

18:00 - 18:45 LGBTQIA Inclusive University Environments 19:00 - 19:45 Diversity Party Odense – rethinking the Pride?

14:00 - 14:45 Misrepresentation!

14:00 - 14:45 Guide to poly relations

15:00 - 15:45 Human rights as a tool

15:00 - 15:45 YAOI (Istanbul)

14:00 - 14:45 Being LGBTIQ+ in Tunisia

14:00 - 14:45 Intersexuality 101

15:00 - 15:45 Queer representation in Danish literature

15:00 - 15:45 Increased efforts through the HPV vaccine to MSMs

16:00 - 16:45 Rainbow families and surrogates

16:00 - 16:45 The Global Fight for LGBTI Rights: Human rights activists share their stories

17:00 - 17:45 Stigmas in the rainbow scene: What about us?!

18:00 - 18:45 LGBTQIA and norm critics at the workplace 19:00 - 19:45 Inclusion and exclusion at the bars

17:00 - 17:45 Diversity on the school timetable 18:00 - 18:45 Hate crimes in the pre-preparatory schooling

17:00 - 17:45 Authors read out loud

17:00 - 18:30 Body and beauty ideals

17:00 - 17:45 Being out

19:00 - 20:30 Kinks 101

17:00 - 19:00 Bondage Basic - workshop

17:00 - 19:00 S&M 101

19:30 - 21:00 Am I a human or a thing?

19:30 - 21:00 Fetish 101

SATURDAY 18/08

PROGRAM OVERVIEW VENUE

TUESDAY 14/08

WEDNESDAY 15/08

16:00 - 19:00 Access to the HPV vaccine

13:00 - 16:00 Be creative with Normstormerne 15:00 - 19:00 Steamy/lots of/quick/intimate sex? For sure!

PRIDE SQUARE

16:00 - 20:00 How to fight the spreading of HIV in developing countries

COPENHAGEN CITY HALL SQUARE

17:00 - 18:00 Pan Yoga

18:15 - 18:30 Official opening speech

FROM HAMBURG WITH LOVE

TAKE ME BACK TUESDAY

Hamburg Pride takes the stage tonight, and they will feature both live performances, DJs, high heels and enormous amounts of glitter!

On stage will be Leopold and DJ Barry E, and the show will be hosted by German singer and actor Annie Heger.

18:30 - 23:00

The opening show on Pride Stage 2018 offers swing, jazz, disco and great classics when this year’s host, cultural reporter and theatre reviewer Jakob Steen Olsen takes the stage.

18:30 - 19:10 Big Dipper Big Band 19:10 - 19:30 Pianist Rasmus Kjær with singers Sanne Amanda Sommer and Annemette Vedel Augustesen.

19:30 - 20:15 Big Dipper Big Band

PRIDE STAGE

COPENHAGEN CITY HALL SQUARE

FREDERIKSBERG TOWN HALL SQUARE

20:30 - 21:30 Me Jane 21:45 - 22:45 Silas Holst & the Flamingo Orchestra

19:00 - 23:00

THURSDAY 16/08

FRIDAY 17/08

15:00 - 19:00 When will we get access to PrEP in Denmark?

12:00 - 23:00 Styling with Wella

15:00 - 19:00 Chemsex – what is it?

13:00 - 16:00 Be creative with Normstormerne

16:00 - 18:00 Checkpoint offers HIV testing

15:00 - 19:00 Steamy/lots of/quick/intimate sex? For sure!

17:00 - 18:00 Pan Badminton

16:00 - 18:00 Checkpoint offers HIV testing

18:00 Copenhagen Frontrunners

17:00 - 18:00 Pan Dans

UNDER THE RAINBOW

DRAG NIGHT

SATURDAY 18/08

PRIDE SHOW

19:00 - 23:00

19:45 - 23:45

14:00 - 23:45

Concert night with live music. Copenhagen Pride is proud to present the uncrowned queen of Danish pop music, Anne Linnet. Together with a talented line-up by up and coming artists on stage expect a sensation of a concert in all the rainbow’s colours.

This year’s Drag Night is dedicated to the undisputed queen of Pop: Madonna! We have invited a Gang Bang of drag queens on stage to give us their Next Best Things of Madonna acts in a 4-hour long drag show. Expect to see one of Europe’s absolutely biggest and most amazing drag shows.

True to tradition, Copenhagen Pride lights up the enormous Pride Show at the Copenhagen City Hall Square / Pride Square on Saturday afternoon and evening. This year’s official host is journalist, debater and author Abdel Aziz Mahmoud.

19:00 - 19:30 Sigmund

14:00 - 15:10 Glitter Boys (DK)

19:30 - 20:00 Feel Freeze

15:10 - 15:20 Award: Salmon of the year

20:00 - 20:30 Theo X

15:20 - 16:30 DJ Gul (DK)

20:30 - 21:00 Jeanett Albeck, Ramona Macho & Rosa Lux

16:30 - 17:00 Official Pride speeches

21:00 - 22:15 Anne Linnet + band

17:00 - 18:00 Lucas (S) Moody (DK) Housefrau (DK)

22:15 - 23:00 DJ Wonderboy Cph

18:00 - 19:00 Ivy (S) Iris Gold (DK) Jonezy (DK) 19:00 - 20:00 Ida Corr (DK) Kill J (DK) 20:00 - 21:00 L.I.G.A (DK) Copenhagen Queens - Drag Show (DK) 21:00 - 22:00 Attention Whores / Mendoza (DK) Zebra Katz (US) 22:00 - 23:45 Robin Skouteris (GR) 11:00 - 13:00 Parade Warm-up 13:00 - 15:30

COPENHAGEN PRIDE PARADE 2018

TUESDAY 14/8

HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAM 14:00 - 14:15 OPENING OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAMME

Minister for Equal Opportunities, Eva Kjer Hansen, opens the Human Rights Program of Copenhagen Pride Week 2018. Language: Danish.

Venue: Debate Tent on the Rainbow Square

14:00 - 14:45 TRANS MONOLOGUE

What will you be using your pussy for, once you get it? Which happiness will it bring you that your cock can’t? What’s on your mind when you masturbate? These are all examples of questions that many trans persons were asked when meeting the health workers at Rigshospitalet. Join a trailblazing debate/performance with spokesperson Moeisha Aden from Sabaah, who dares to mix up stories, truth and fiction about what it means to be transgender, a Muslim and a minority in the minority. Language: Danish.

Venue: Brasserie Royal on the Rainbow Square

14:00 - 14:45 ROOM FOR EVERYONE IN FOOTBALL – ALSO LGBTS? DBU, the Danish national football [soccer] association, has kicked the ball into play on the LGBT area, but a number of questions pop up. What is it that in practice can make it hard for LGBT people to join in? What will it take out in the clubs to create a setting with room for everyone? Hear more about the tone and jargon on the field, learn more about DBU’s campaigns and join the debate. Language: Danish.

Venue: Hovedkassen, Copenhagen City Hall

14:15 - 14:45 DIVERSITY OR TOLERANCE?

The norm stormers will thematise the differences between diversity and tolerance in this debate, where we’ll discuss representation of LBGTIQA+ persons in popular culture and based on our experiences with normcritical teaching in the 7th to 10th grades. How are LGBTIQA+ persons portrayed in movies, series and other media? How do schools teach about LGBTIQA+? Are we dealing with diversification or a tolerance culture, and what are the different effects of each of these? Language: Danish.

Venue: Debate Tent on the Rainbow Square

15:00 - 15:45 CHEMSEX – ADDICTED TO DRUGS OR TO SEX?

In Copenhagen and other cities around the world, chemsex – the use of psychedelic drugs in connection with sex – is on the rise amongst men, who sleep with men. In a study by AIDS-Fondet in the summer of 2017, several respond that they have had negative experiences related to chemsex, including sexual assaults, the loss of social relations, overdoses and addictions. At the same time, chemsex increases the risk of infection with HIV and other STIs significantly. Join the debate with experts from AIDS-Fondet about a phenomenon that takes up more and more space in the Danish gay scene and take part in discussing, what the scene in specific and society in general can and should do to minimise the related risks. Language: Danish.

Venue: Brasserie Royal on the Rainbow Square

15:00 - 15:45 DRAG FOR BEGINNERS

Do you also love drag? Would you consider trying to be transformed yourself? Stop by and meet some of Copenhagen’s most popular drags, and learn about everything from tucking to contouring. This workshop is run by Chantal al Arab. Language: Danish.

Venue: Hovedkassen, Copenhagen City Hall

15:00 - 16:00 PERSPECTIVES ON NORDIC COOPERATION

In Denmark, the government recently introduced an LGBT action plan to help increase the focus on LGBTI people’s safety and promote openness. But how are things in Sweden and Norway? Come and join a conversation between, amongst others, the Danish minister for Equal Opportunities and pride representatives, where we share experiences and discuss the challenges and potential solutions to better quality of life for LGBTI persons. Language: Danish.

Venue: Debate Tent on the Rainbow Square

16:00 - 16:45 INCLUSIVENESS AND THE USE OF LANGUAGE

What does it mean to be inclusive? How is exclusion and rejection felt, and how can we be better at avoiding this both in the scene and in society? Come join this discussion, where we want to shine a light on whether we succeed in creating inclusiveness, and how our way of speaking can affect the ability of others to join in. Language: Danish.

Venue: Hovedkassen, Copenhagen City Hall

16:15 - 17:00 CONDITIONAL LOVE

Can love be conditional? Can parents love their children for ever, if they need their love of God to be even greater? Unfortunately, it is not alien for LGBT+ persons that their family’s acceptance and love is not without conditions, and even in a political landscape increasingly putting open-mindedness and diversity on the agenda, LGBT+ persons still experience challenges with everything from selfcensorship, unwanted homelessness to expulsion from the home.

Sabaah in particular talks to many young people, who experience these challenges in their families and surroundings, where topics such as honour and shame can ultimately lead to checking in to crisis centres and residences. Sabaah therefore invites you to dialogue and debate about conditional love. Language: Danish.

Venue: Debate Tent on the Rainbow Square

17:00 - 17:45 DID WE SWIPE INTIMACY TO DEATH?

Whether you’re after a quick bang or a romantic date, Grindr, Hornet and Tinder are amazing tools to get in touch with others on the scene.

Research shows that since the different apps penetrated phones in Denmark, we have much more casual sex. But it seems that the casual goes hand-in-hand with the impersonal and even reckless – far more people are worse at discussing prevention, before the sheets start to rustle. Are we removing the intimacy from sex by cynically swiping right or left looking for our next hook-up? And how can that affect our own self-determination in terms of how to protect ourselves, who to have sex with and not least how? Stop in, when AIDS-Fondet invites you to a debate on how the universe of dating apps create both opportunities and challenges in our sex lives. Language: Danish.

Venue: Debate Tent on the Rainbow Square

17:00 - 17:45 NORM-CRITICS AT CHILDREN’S LEVEL

In this workshop we’ll give a short introduction to norm-critical practice at the children’s and youths area. We will investigate how norms concerning, amongst others, gender, sexuality and minority positions may have a negatively categorising effect on the pedagogical work – also in relation to some of today’s popular pedagogical concepts such as recognition and inclusion. There will be an opportunity to work with tools to become more critical of one’s own norms through case studies and discussions. Participants: Jacob Graack, lecturer at the Bachelor degree in Social Education, UCC Campus Carlsberg and Lisa Rasmussen, lecturer at the Bachelor degree in Social Education, UCC Nord. Language: Danish.

Venue: Hovedkassen, Copenhagen City Hall

17:00 - 19:00 TANTRA MINI-WORKSHOP

Workshop focused on your own body awareness. We start with a brief theoretical overview, followed by exercises. The topics are body awareness games which contain closeness exercises, touching exercises, massage exercises (non-genital). All exercises will be focused on listening to your own body, daring to explore, drawing boundaries and expressing desires. What happens in you; e.g. when is a touch okay and when isn’t it; and what does it do to you, when it feels okay or when it doesn’t feel quite as okay? The workshop is a safe-space workshop open to any LGBTQIA+ person. It is a closed workshop, which you need to sign-up for through our Facebook event: KSP: Tantra mini-workshop. Language: Danish.

Venue: AIDS-Fondet, Vestergade 18E, 1456 Copenhagen

TUESDAY 14/8

18:00 - 18:45 ASEXUAL IN A SEXUAL SOCIETY

A widespread understanding of sexuality is that of sexual liberation being a human right, but therein also lies a norm that “real” liberation includes hooking up with whomever you want, whenever you want, however you want. What happens for those, who fall outside that norm and do not have an interest in sex? Are they excluded from sexual liberation? Does it even hold true, when we in Denmark believe to have the right to our own sexuality? These questions are debated by the Danish Association of Asexuals. A panel will invite to a busy debate – with each other and with the audience. They seek to make it clear how asexuality affects various current understandings of sexuality, and to uncover the stigma met by asexuals in a sexualised society. Language: Danish.

Venue: Debate Tent on the Rainbow Square

18:00 - 18:45 LGBTQI FAMILY FORMATION

It’s not easy to form a family as an LGBTQI person. First off, there is the biological part: Should it be adoption, a rainbow family, a sperm donor, a surrogate or an entirely different option? Next up are the mental challenges, which can be both internal and external: How will the child react to the way it was brought into this world? Do others think of us as a real family? Who is the mother, and who is the father – and are both of those even needed? The chairman of Dare Danmark, Mikkel Raahede, is the father of 3 girls born by a carrier in the USA. Signe Fjord is a single mum by choice. Along with representatives of other family forms, they meet for a candid chat with each other and the audience about family formation, pressure of expectations and release. Language: Danish.

Venue: Hovedkassen, Copenhagen City Hall

19:00 - 20:00 YOUTH POLITICAL DEBATE

We have invited the youth political parties to talk about LGBTQ rights in Denmark, where we will cover topics including: Where are we today?

Where do we want to go? - And not least, what can the youth parties do to help lift the LGBTQ agenda? Language: Danish.

Venue: Debate Tent on the Rainbow Square

19:00 - 19:45 A NEED FOR SEPARATIST SPACES?

We take our basis in the group KSKyoung and the opportunities and challenges in creating separatist spaces for a single minority in a minoritised environment. As an example, is it alright to make a space only for women, who sleep with women? Further to this, we dive deeper into some of the talks and exchanges that may take place in a space for WSWs. Language: Danish.

Venue: Hovedkassen, Copenhagen City Hall

19:30 - 21:00 WORKSHOP ABOUT INTIMACY AND CLOSENESS

On the LGBTQIA+ scene, many are happy to talk about sex. Casual sex, one-night stands and sex clubs. Sex on drugs and sex when drunk.

But maybe we don’t talk quite as much about closeness and intimacy?

In the hunt for the right partner, for many it becomes hard to keep themselves in focus. Are we sometimes willing to forego protection in our eagerness for acknowledgement and physical closeness, because we are scared of rejection? Does chemsex and alcohol become a choice, because we are vulnerable? And does HIV become just one pill a day? That, and much more, is the focus for MSM campaign manager Karoline Barkvoll Holstad and clinical sexologist Tonny Brønløkke Hertz from AIDS-Fondet. The workshop will be a mix of presentations, assignments and debate; and is a safe-space workshop open to all LGBTQIA+ persons. Language: Danish.

Venue: AIDS-Fondet, Vestergade 18E, 1456 Copenhagen

LGBTQI family formation 18:00 - 18:45, Hovedkassen

TUESDAY 14/8

PRIDE STAGE 18:15 - 18:30 OFFICIAL OPENING SPEECH

The chairperson of Copenhagen Pride, Lars Henriksen, kicks off Copenhagen Pride Week with this year’s opening speech.

18:30 - 23:00 TAKE ME BACK TUESDAY

The opening show on Pride Stage 2018, as usual, offers swing, jazz, disco and great classics when this year’s host, cultural reporter and theatre reviewer Jakob Steen Olsen, takes the stage to lead you safely through a night full of musical flashbacks and loving blasts from the music past.

LINE-UP 18:30 - 19:10 Big Dipper Big Band 19:10 - 19:30 Pianist Rasmus Kjær with singers Sanne Amanda Sommer and Annemette Vedel Augustesen 19:30 - 20:15 Big Dipper Big Band 20:30 - 21:30 Me Jane 21:45 - 22:45 Silas Holst & the Flamingo Orchestra

Silas Holst & the Flamingo Orchestra 21:45 - 22:45, Pride Stage

PRIDE SQUARE ACCESS TO THE HPV VACCINE Should all young people have free access to the HPV-vaccine or should it continue to be targeted to girls and boys who are into boys? Come by AIDS-Fondet's tent at Pride Square and get a chat about why boys who are into boys are particularly vulnerable for getting HPV, and whether the vaccine should be made freely available for all young people.

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EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES 08:30 - 10.00 DIVERSE STORIES

Three young Danes tell their own personal stories about their lives and dreams. Each one of them comes from a minority background in the Danish youth organizations. For more information check duf.dk. In Danish.

Studenterrådet KU, Købmagergade 52, 2. floor, 1150 Copenhagen

21:00 DOUBLE SAUSAGES WITH THE WORKS – DRAG SHOW

The best, and not least the worst, of “Dansktop” pop. A swinging-along, singing-along show with the mood firmly set to festive. Release your inhibitions and pump it up; that makes the night fun as ever.

Centralhjørnet, Kattesundet 18, 1458 Copenhagen

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WEDNESDAY TUESDAY 8/16 15/8

HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAM 14:00 - 14:45 LGBT+ SENIORS AND NURSING STAFF

16:00 - 16:45 LGBT HISTORY

14:00 - 14:45 FIGHTING HIV INFECTION

16:45 - 17:00 BRUSH-UP

14:00 - 14:45 THE MIC IS YOURS!

17:00 - 17:45 LONELINESS AND SHAME

15:00 - 15:45 DRAGS IN THE PRIDE

17:00 - 17:45 DIVERSITY AND EVERYDAY LIFE FOR TRANSGENDER KIDS

The way to discuss gender and sexuality has changed significantly, since those now 70+ years old were young and forced into hiding. Some have been open, but go back into their closet. Is nursing currently able to handle that not everyone is a heterosexual, and not everyone is binary man or woman? If you don’t know the conditions of LGBT+ seniors, it becomes hard to give them the right care and attention. Hear, how the seniors want to be able to thrive. Language: Danish.

Venue: Debate Tent on the Rainbow Square

Today there are many different tools to fight HIV. What are their respective advantages, and how can we combine them to take better care of each other? Join a dialogue about how we’re using the different strategies to form one united front against HIV. Language: Danish.

Venue: Brasserie Royal on the Rainbow Square

How would your rights speech sound, in the year 2018? This workshop explores what speech-writing as a tool can be used for, and how speeches can create room for change and be used to shine the spotlight on LGBT+ person’s experiences and rights. This workshop is presented by musician and LGBT+ activist Karina Willumsen, who is part of the social enterprise communication agency SIVIL. Language: Danish.

Venue: Hovedkassen, Copenhagen City Hall

When the Pride movement was founded in the aftermath of the Stonewall riots, transgender persons and drags were key driving forces.

Also in Denmark, The Gay Liberation Front was characterised by fluid gender expressions. Here, the activists were men in dresses, who marched through the city and thereby pushed the understanding of gender and sexuality. The question is; have we lost our way? Has the Pride become too CIS-gendered? At this panel, local drag queens will discuss why drag is more than lip-syncing and high heels, and why drags are needed in the Pride. Chantal al Arab will lead you through the debate with some of Copenhagen’s most popular drags taking part. Language: Danish.

Venue: Debate Tent on the Rainbow Square

15:00 - 15:45 TRANSGENDER CHILDREN AND YOUTHS

Questions and answers...: What about changing clothes at school? And classmates, family and friends? How does name-change work? What is a binder? Where do I find equals? Where can I read more? Here it’s possible to ask questions and have answers. There will be a panel to offer answers and possible solutions for transgender children and youths based on their own practical experience. Language: Danish.

Venue: Brasserie Royal on the Rainbow Square

15:00 - 15:45 NOT A HETEROSEXUAL – BUT THEN WHAT?

Humans are varied creatures, and sexual and romantic orientations interweave in different ways; not just gay or straight. Bi+; pan; fluid; asexual and biromantic; bisexual and homoromantic… plus many more variations. To get to know yourself, sometimes it helps to know about more terms. Is it also important to meet others that you can reflect in?

And what are the options for that today? Language: Danish.

Venue: Hovedkassen, Copenhagen City Hall

16:00 - 16:45 HEALTH INEQUALITY AMONGST WSW

There is a high degree of inequality in health and higher mortality rates among LBGT persons, particularly among women, who sleep with women.

What can we do to reduce inequality in health? How do we break the barriers faced by women, who sleep with women? What has happened since last year’s debate? Come and join the debate. Language: Danish.

Venue: Debate Tent on the Rainbow Square

Denmark has great stories to tell, when it comes to the conditions for LGBTs. Registered partnerships, Lili Elbe, the removal of transgenderness as a psychiatric diagnosis, the 1950s Pornography Affairs, “the ugly law”, lesbian separatism, just to mention some of them. In this lecture, Peter Edelberg – a historian specialising in sexuality history – will tell about Danish LGBT history and open up for a debate about what we want with the history. Language: Danish.

Venue: Hovedkassen, Copenhagen City Hall

What are gender and norms? What are sexuality and sexual orientation?

Who are covered by the abbreviation LGBTQIA+? Come and learn more about LGBTQIA+, gender, norms and sexuality, or have your knowledge refreshed in a quick and accessible format. Language: Danish.

Venue: Debate Tent on the Rainbow Square

Exclusion from communities is often followed by the shame of feeling that you do not fit in. Many LGBT+ persons experience loneliness, which can in the worst cases lead to suicides. LGBT Danmark’s hotline invites to a dialogue about loneliness in LGBT+ persons and examines how the feelings of shame and not fitting in can imprint on a life as LGBT+. Language: Danish.

Venue: Debate Tent on the Rainbow Square

There are diverse policies for diversity and inclusion, but do those also include transgender children? How are gender identity, diversity and inclusion seen? How is that implemented in practice? What meaning does it have in everyday life for transgender kids and youths? And how can we improve it? Language: Danish.

Venue: Hovedkassen, Copenhagen City Hall

17:00 - 18:30 HOW CAN YOU BECOME SEX-POSITIVE AGAIN?

Open “session”, where we discuss the way to become sex-positive again after assaults, rapes, coming out, illness, chemsex, prostitution, shame, gender and body issues and many other topics. The session will be open to any and all questions. We will cover topics such as rebuilding one’s sexuality after a trauma, shame, wrongness, vulnerability, the road to sex-positivism, one’s own kink and sexuality, self-esteem in sexuality – an “okayness” about yourself, acknowledgment and praise. This is a safe-space workshop, where all LGBTQIA+ persons are welcome to participate. Language: Danish.

Venue: Vartov, Farvergade 27, 1463 Copenhagen

17:00 - 19:00 BDSM / POWER EXCHANGE WORKSHOP

BDSM / Power Exchange is, among other things, about becoming aware of both sides of ourselves; both the dominant and the submissive parts, and about exploring ourselves; expressing desires and setting boundaries. After a short, theoretical talk about remedies, agreements, respect for boundaries and similar, a practice-game will be organised, where participants can explore the dynamics in devotion, control and boundary-setting with respect and trust. Please bring any remedies, that you might need for the game, yourself; such as blindfolds, clamps, ropes, soft whips or whatever else tickles your fancy. Everyone is expected to join in the games in a respectful and attentive manner and to particiapte in a closing reflection. This is a safe-space workshop, open to all LGBTQIA+ persons. Language: Danish.

Venue: AIDS-Fondet, Vestergade 18E, 1456 Copenhagen

WEDNESDAY TUESDAY 8/16 15/8

18:00 - 18:45 POLITICAL PARTIES AT PRIDE – CHEAP PR?

Through the last many year, most political parties have found it obvious to join Copenhagen Pride. But will that strengthen their fight, or does it give politicians and parties the chance to brand themselves as tolerant and ‘with it’? Or is the truth found somewhere between those two points? Join a debate about political parties’ participation in the Pride. Language: Danish.

Venue: Debate Tent on the Rainbow Square

18:00 - 18:45 FEMME-SHAMING, SEXUAL CULTURE AND GRINDR Grindr and other hook-up apps, along with the urban scene, set the frame for much of the lust in men, who sleep with men. Bodily and sexual ideals are based in masculinity, and femininity in men is often frowned upon. What is the status of femme-shaming among MSMs, and how does it affect the sexual and dating culture? Come and join the debate. Language: Danish.

Venue: Hovedkassen, Copenhagen City Hall

19:00 - 19:45 SHAME ON YOU!

Together with legislation and persecution, shame is one of the most effective means to suppress free sexuality and free gender identity.

Shame is what prevent the personal liberation process, and shame is the final and toughest challenge. How does shame work, where does it come from, and how do we get rid of it? The panel consists of Tomas Lagermand Lundme, Anne Mette Lorentzen, Tone Ottilie, René Benjamin Hansen, Jesper Frølund Hansen and Marianne Davidsen Nielsen. Language: Danish.

Venue: Debate Tent on the Rainbow Square

19:00 - 19:45 MINORITY STRESSES

LGBTQs experience significantly more discrimination, stigmatisation, and bullying than the rest of the population. For that reason, many

hold back from seeking help. People identifying with the LGBTQ population are used to being misunderstood, and therefore have become despondent. Some are afraid to see their doctor, even if they have a lump in the breast or testicle that needs examination, while other LGBTQs do not get the help they should, because time is spent explaining and informing about their ‘different’ lifestyle. These stigmatising experiences are also described as one with the term ‘minority stresses’. Presenter Nina Lildal-Schrøder is a psychologist, instructor and speaker. Language: Danish.

Venue: Hovedkassen, Copenhagen City Hall

19:00 - 20:30 THE MANY FACES OF ORGASMS

We talk about what orgasms really are, ask all the silly questions and get some healthy, reflecting answers. What it’s like on your own, and when you’re with someone else. About what body image does to the ability to orgasm. About the loss of desire, asexual behaviour, horniness and celibacy. About different types of orgasms, and how to get them. And about sexual dependency. There will be opportunities for questions both during and after. This is a safe-space workshop, open to all LGBTQIA+ persons. Language: Danish.

Venue: Vartov, Farvergade 27, 1463 Copenhagen

19:30 - 21:00 ANAL SEX 102

Curious about anal sex? Do you want to learn how to be stimulated anally and be pleasured that way – and what good anal sex can be? Then drop in for an anal sex workshop, where Michael will guide us through everything from “how to get started with anal sex”, “what is the best douching technique?” and “is lube really that important?” to “which toys can be used?”. There will be plenty of openings to ask questions, so come and learn about the exciting world of anal sex. This afternoon is open to everyone of all genders. No product recommendations in this workshop can be considered an endorsement on behalf of Copenhagen Pride by neither product nor producer. Language: Danish.

Venue: AIDS-Fondet, Vestergade 18E, 1456 Copenhagen

Femme-shaming, sexual culture and Grindr 18:00 - 18:45, Hovedkassen

Foto: Stock

WEDNESDAY TUESDAY 8/16 15/8

PRIDE SQUARE 13:00 - 16:00 BE CREATIVE WITH NORMSTORMERNE

Do you need a norm critical badge, a sticker, a painting, a board to the Pride Parade or something totally different? Join in and be creative with Normstormerne when we hang out at AIDS-Fondets tent. We have some material – such as paint, paper, scissors, badge machine – but please feel free to bring a t-shirt, a dishcloth or a painting, which needs to get a norm critical twist.

15:00 - 19:00 STEAMY/LOTS OF/QUICK/INTIMATE SEX? FOR SURE! Sex can be amazing. Particularly if you don’t have to think about the risk of getting infected with HIV or other STIs when you are turned on. During the last couple of years, several alternatives in regard to protection against HIV have become a reality. But how you should or want to protect yourself depends on who you are having sex with and the sex you are having. Come by AIDS-Fondet at Pride Square and get information on the options within how you can protect yourself and your sex partners for HIV.

16:00 - 20:00 HOW TO FIGHT THE SPREADING OF HIV IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

AIDS-Fondet is working to fight the spreading of HIV in among other Ukraine, Uganda, Malawi and Kenya. Come by AIDS-Fondets tent for a chat on how we work and the methods we use to fight the spreading of HIV internationally.

17:00 - 18:00 PAN YOGA

Pan Yoga teaches and demonstrates yoga at the Pride Square in front of the Pan Idræt tent.

PRIDE STAGE 19:00 - 23:00 FROM HAMBURG WITH LOVE

This year, we have invited Hamburg Pride to take the stage on Wednesday night, and they will feature both live performances, DJs, high heels and enormous amounts of glitter! On stage will be Leopold and DJ Barry E, and the show is brought to you by the night’s host, German singer and actor Annie Heger, and will also include visits by the German ambassador and a number of wunderbar surprises - mit viele Liebe aus Hamburg.

Photographer: Linn Marx

From Hamburg with Love 19:00 - 23:00 Host, Annie Heger

WEDNESDAY 15/8

OTHER

EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES 08:30 MORNING SONGS

At The Copenhagen Main Library – every single Wednesday morning all year around 150-400 Copenhageners gather to sing together. They have been doing this for almost 3 years and this event will be hosted

by Copenhagen Pride’s Festival Manager, Lars Henriksen, and the wonderful and very talented singer Karina Willumsen.

Copenhagen Main Library, Krystalgade 15, 1172 Copenhagen

Your evening will be hosted by the amazing queens Di Di and Harley, who add a dash of glamour, humour, wild antics and joy to your night. This event is divided into two parts; 15 places on the kitchen team for those who want to learn some culinary skills and 29 seats available for a three course New Nordic Pride Dining Experience (created by the kitchen team). See more on www.cphcookingclass.com.

Tickets: 525 DKK - 875 DKK via billetto.dk.

Herluf Trolles Gade 9, 1st floor, 1052 Copenhagen

17:00 - 19:00 GULLASCH GET-TOGETHER - PRIDE EDITION

18:00 - 20:00 COME SEE THE SLM CLUB

17:00 - 18:30 PRIDE WALKING TOUR

20:00 - 22:00 DON'T EVER WIPE TEARS WITHOUT GLOVES

17:00 - 22:30 COOKING WITH PRIDE

21:00 EGTVEDPIGERNE – FOLKSY

DUF – The Danish Youth Council invites for a gullasch get-together and a talk about how we can improve diversity in youth organizations in Denmark. Registration is required on duf.dk – The event is free.

For more information check duf.dk LO Ungdom, Islands Brygge 32D, 2300 Copenhagen S

Come for a 'hyggelig' (cosy) 90 min tour of Copenhagen and hear the long and colourful history of queer Denmark, including the evolution of the gay civil rights movement and how it shaped Copenhagen into one of the most gay-friendly cities in the world, plus highlighting bars, venues and some of the city's best naughty places. Language: English. Price: 50 DKK. The steps in front of the City Hall, 1599 Copenhagen Look for the rainbow umbrella.

CPH Cooking Class invites you to be part of their most colourful and embracing event, Cooking with Pride 2018. For the first time they join the Pride party with an exquisite cooking and dining event, and you’re invited.

Scandinavian Leather Men marks Pride Week 2018 with a 2 hour "open house" event. Many ask: What does SLM look like on the inside? Now you have the opportunity to see for yourself. The bar will be open and board members will be there to show you around. Men only over 18 years.

SLM Copenhagen, Lavendelstræde 17 (back building), 1462 Copenhagen

For Copenhagen Pride Week, Eventministeriet revives at the Royal theatre the critic acclaimed, moving, relevant, stage version of Jonas Gardell’s book trilogy, “Don’t ever wipe tears without gloves” about the AIDS crisis in Stockholm of the mid 1980s – Johannes Lilleør is radiant as Paul and Simon Bennebjerg exposes the full vulnerability of Benjamin to the audience. Language: Danish.

Skuespilhuset, Sankt. Annæ Plads 36, 1250 Copenhagen K

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Centralhjørnet, Kattesundet 18, 1458 Copenhagen

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THURSDAY 16/8

HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAM 14:00 - 14:45 INTERSEX CHILDREN GROW UP AS INTERSEX ADULTS – AND THEN WHAT?

I May 2017, Amnesty International published the report “First Do No Harm – Securing the rights of children with variations in gender characteristica in Denmark and Germany”. The report covered the violations of human rights that intersex children are subjected to in Denmark and Germany.

However, intersex children grow up to become intersex youths and adults, and this is where we’ll focus. The debate will be based on several of the topics and challenges that an intersex youth and adult risks facing.

How does it feel as a young intersex person, when none of the things taught in biology and sexual education match the workings of your own body? When your body is in the middle, where should you change and shower, and which sports team do you belong to? How do you handle discrimination? And what about love and the sex life? Language: Danish.

Venue: Debate Tent on the Rainbow Square

14:00 - 14:45 MISREPRESENTATION!

About being a minority inside a minority. Conversation between Ahmad Mahmoud, the author of “Black Land”, and Mikael Aktor from Intact Denmark about standing in the crossfire between minority rights, LGBT rights and children’s rights and experiencing that religious organisations monopolise the right to define what it means to be, respectively, a Muslim and a Jew without respecting internal criticism. Language: Danish.

Venue: Brasserie Royal on the Rainbow Square

14:00 - 14:45 BEING LGBTIQ+ IN TUNISIA

Islem Mejri, activist and counsellor in Mawjoudin - We Exist - one of Tunisia’s first LGBTIQ+ organisations, and Abir Boukornine, cofounder of the organisation and project manager in LGBT Denmark will talk about the situation of LGBTIQ+ individuals in Tunisia after the Arab spring as well as the reality of queer activism in a country where being LGBTIQ+ is illegal. Language: English.

Venue: Hovedkassen, Copenhagen City Hall

15:00 - 15:45 GLOBAL WINS IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LGBT+ RIGHTS

In over 70 countries, it is illegal to be LGBT+. Even so, we see huge progress in many places thanks to a strong civic society fighting a tireless struggle.

In this debate, we zoom in on the methods used by these civic societies.

What works in different places around the world? And how is that progress felt by the LGBT+ persons that it’s all about? Language: English.

Venue: Debate Tent on the Rainbow Square

15:00 - 15:45 HUMAN RIGHTS AS A TOOL

When there is a difference in access to services. When your family life is challenged by states having different views of family structures. When you cannot just host events. These are all situations, where it might be necessary to bring in help from higher-level court structures. The LGBT area has frequently been grounds for human rights instruments. LGBT Danmark and the Danish Institute for Human Rights review specific cases and consider, how these have been handled: Where have human rights been effective, and where have there been challenges? Human rights are constantly developing, and the LGBT area is one of the areas to have been anchored the latest. It is important that we continue to develop them, and that we put them into use, whenever we have to solve specific problems and develop policies. Language: Danish.

Venue: Brasserie Royal on the Rainbow Square

15:00 - 15:45 QUEER REPRESENTATION IN DANISH LITERATURE

In the past few years, several Danish authors have created novels with strong queer representation. At this year’s Pride we want to honour some of the authors, who have brought modern literature far more nuances about homosexuals, bisexuals and fluid sexuality into the book universe. We therefore invite you to a talk about the thoughts of

selected authors in terms of sexual representation in their work(s), and what value they see being brought to Danish literature by a broader spectre of representation. Language: Danish.

Venue: Hovedkassen, Copenhagen City Hall

16:00 - 16:45 LET’S TALK ABOUT RACE!

The rainbow has many nuances, but is the scene broad and inclusive enough to make room for all types of experience? Is the LGBT scene blind to those spots, where we ourselves help recreate suppressive structures, discrimination and racism? Can we even acknowledge that even in the LGBT scene, there are racist structures; and if so, how do those look? In this debate, Sabaah charges into the difficult conversation, looks inwards and urges constructive solutions. Language: Danish.

Venue: Debate Tent on the Rainbow Square

16:00 - 16:45 RAINBOW FAMILIES AND SURROGATES

A political panel debate about equality within family formation, with a particular focus on rainbow families formed through the use of surrogacy.

There is still differential treatment of especially homosexuals and trans persons, when it comes to forming families, which is why more and more use surrogates in Denmark and abroad. Is surrogacy exploitation of the women? Or is the exact opposite, when a woman actively chooses to give others the greatest gift? Is it even a right to have children? We can expect fierce debate about an important topic. Language: Danish.

Venue: Hovedkassen, Copenhagen City Hall

16:45 - 17:00 BRUSH-UP

What are gender and norms? What are sexuality and sexual orientation?

Who are covered by the abbreviation LGBTQIA+? Come and learn more about LGBTQIA+, gender, norms and sexuality, or have your knowledge refreshed in a quick and accessible format. Language: Danish.

Venue: Debate Tent on the Rainbow Square

17:00 - 17:45 INCLUSIVITY OR INSTITUTIONALISED DISCRIMINATION?

Are priests allowed to denying marrying same-sex couples? In section 7 (a) of the Danish Act on Membership of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark, Church Services and Parish Changes, permission is given to priests in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark to abstains from marrying and blessing same-sex couples. Is this a symbol of the Church’ alleged inclusivity, or is it in fact institutionalised discrimination? Participants: Thomas Høg Nørager (parish priest in Stefanskirken), Henrik Højlund (parish priest in Kingoskirken) and Peder Holk Svendsen (chairperson, LGBT Denmark). Language: Danish.

Venue: Debate Tent on the Rainbow Square

17:00 - 17:45 STIGMAS IN THE RAINBOW SCENE: WHAT ABOUT US?!

The rainbow scene has for decades prided itself on being at the forefront of the battle against stigmatisation, hate and narrow social norms. But what is the score, if we turn to look inwards? To what degree are minorities within the minority stigmatised by the LGBT+ scene itself?

We know that stigma and self-hate are vital challenges, when it comes to preventing e.g. HIV, and for that reason the struggle for inclusion is important. At this debate, we will hear from people experiencing marginalisation within the scene, and then the speaker’s floor passes to the audience. Together we will examine, how we can each take (more) responsibility for widening the fight for inclusion to ourselves and our circle. Debate arranged by AIDS-Fondet, LGBT Danmark, Sabaah and Copenhagen Pride. Language: Danish.

Venue: Hovedkassen, Copenhagen City Hall

17:00 - 18:30 BODY AND BEAUTY IDEALS

Which ideals exists for our bodies, and where do those ideals come from?

Is there such a thing as objectively beautiful people? And why is it even

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THURSDAY TUESDAY 8/16 16/8

Copenhagen 2021: WorldPride & EuroGames 18:00 - 19:45, Debate Tent

so important how we look? The two hostesses of the Fabulous Feminists podcast invite you to a workshop, where we will jointly work on become aware of beauty privileges and crushing body expectations. This is a safespace workshop open to every LGBTQIA+ person. Language: Danish.

Venue: Vartov, Farvergade 27, 1463 Copenhagen

is that done in a respectful way, which doesn’t lead to pinkwashing or forced outings? Language: Danish.

Venue: Hovedkassen, Copenhagen City Hall

17:00 - 17:45 AUTHORS READ OUT LOUD

In a few short years, it’ll be time for Copenhagen 2021, where Copenhagen Pride and Pan Idræt welcome both WorldPride and EuroGames. This will be a global mega-event, and we have already started planning! Come and hear more about our plans – and tell us your thoughts on what needs to happen, when the whole world enters Copenhagen for a rainbow festival for everyone. Language: Danish.

Venue: Debate Tent on the Rainbow Square

In extention of the debate about queer representation in Danish literature, you’re invited to a reading by the authors from that debate.

Here, we will get a sense of their books, as every author will read for about 10 minutes. Come by and enjoy an hour’s time with literature in quiet surroundings. This session will be recorded and published as a podcast during the autumn. Language: Danish.

Venue: Mojo Blues Bar, Løngangsstræde 21C, 1468 Copenhagen

17:00 - 19:00 BONDAGE BASICS – WORKSHOP

You don’t need to be skilled in bondage, because we will cover some simple bindings that you can put into use straight away. After that you will have time to try out some of those basic bindings with other participants. Ropes will be available to borrow, but you are also very welcome to bring your own. We expect all participants to be careful and considerate of each other, and to participate in a closing reflection.

The workshop is a safe-space workshop open to any LGBTQIA+ person.

It is a closed workshop, which you need to sign-up for through our Facebook event: Pride Week: Bondage workshop. Language: Danish.

Venue: AIDS-Fondet, Vestergade 18E, 1456 Copenhagen

18:00 - 18:45 LGBTQIA AND NORM CRITICS AT THE WORKPLACE

Many LGBTQIA persons experience their sexual observation and gender identity being either emphasised as ‘best practice’ for HR and CSR strategies, or either kept invisible and followed by harassment in an often masculine working environment. That duality makes the LGBTQIA area a tight balancing act in many organisations, and many leaders therefore sweep the topic under the carpet. As a consequence, many LGBTQIA persons do not feel that they can be open at their workplace, and therefore must carry the extra burden of constantly re-negotiating their professional relations. With this debate, we want to focus on the responsibility of workplaces, including employers and leaders, to ensure an open, diverse and inclusive working environment.

But how do you do that, and how is it done best? Should companies include an LGBTQIA focus in their employee policy? Should they launch diversity and inclusivity initiatives for/with LGBTQIAs? And if so, how

18:00 - 19:45 COPENHAGEN 2021: WORLDPRIDE & EUROGAMES

19:00 - 19:45 INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION AT THE BARS

How is the inclusion coming along at bars and parties on the LGBT+ scene? What can we do better? Come and hear bars and party arrangers from the scene talk about how they experience inclusion and what they are each doing. Language: Danish.

Venue: Hovedkassen, Copenhagen City Hall

19:00 - 20:30 KINKS 101

Do you dare to discuss kinks? Learn how kinks stimulate the body, and how you safely experiment with kinks. No matter if you are strictly vanilla or prefer some kinky spice in the queen bed, you might be curious to find out what others thinks and do to spice up the sex life.

We take a look at what fisting, sounding, ball stretching, nipple clamps, watersports, electro and much more means to the sex life. We break up taboos and share experiences and knowledge about how kinks are played out both safely and fun. This is a safe-space workshop open to all LGBTQIA+ persons. Language: Danish.

Venue: Vartov, Farvergade 27, 1463 Copenhagen

19:30 - 21:00 AM I A HUMAN OR A THING?

Many LGBTQ persons often experience being objectified. Can this be positive? What can objectification be used for? How do you cope with objectification, when it’s negative? How can being objectified affect a person? This presentation is a dialogue between a group of people from the LGBTQ and kink scenes, who all have both positive and negative experience with this topic. Language: Danish.

Venue: AIDS-Fondet, Vestergade 18E, 1456 Copenhagen

UNDER THE RAINBOW IS PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY STARBUCKS

PRIDE SQUARE 15:00 - 19:00 WHEN WILL WE GET ACCESS TO PrEP IN DENMARK?

PrEP is quickly becoming one of the most popular methods to protect oneself agianst HIV, among men who have sex with men. Meet AIDSFondet’s expert on PrEP for a chat on the ups and downs with PrEP, and get the newest information on when we can expect PrEP to be accessible in Denmark. AIDS-Fondet’s tent on Pride Square.

15:00 - 19:00 CHEMSEX – WHAT IS IT?

Chemsex – the use of certain euphonizing drugs in combination with sex – is a growing phenomenon in Denmark and in Europe. But what risks are there with chemsex? Come by AIDS-Fondet’s tent for at chat with our expert and become wiser on what chemsex is, and what you should be aware of if you take part in it.

16:00 - 18:00 CHECKPOINT OFFERS HIV TESTING

Get tested for HIV in AIDS-Fondet’s tent at Pride Square. The test is a oral test, and you will get the result the next day.

17:00 - 18:00 PAN BADMINTON

Pan Badminton erect their nets and invites everyone to a Pan Idræt mini tournament right at Pride Square.

18:00 COPENHAGEN FRONTRUNNERS

The running team of Pan Idræt, the Copenhagen Frontrunners, arrange 4 km [2.5 mile] and 8 km [5 mile] races starting from the Pan Idræt tent. Open to everyone.

Anne Linnet 21:00 - 22:15, Pride Stage

THURSDAY 16/8

PRIDE STAGE 19:00 - 23:00 UNDER THE RAINBOW 2018

Under the Rainbow is the major concert night of the Pride Week focused on live music, and Copenhagen Pride are proud to present as this year’s main draw the uncrowned queen of Danish pop music, Anne Linnet. Together with a talented line-up by up and coming artists on stage, we present a sensation of a concert in all the rainbow’s colours.

This year’s host is Karen Sangvin.

LINE-UP 19:00 - 19:30 Sigmund 19:30 - 20:00 Feel Freeze 20:00 - 20:30 Theo X 20:30 - 21:00 Jeanett Albeck, Ramona Macho & Rosa Lux 21:00 - 22:15 Anne Linnet + band 22:15 - 23:00 DJ Wonderboy Cph

THURSDAY 16/8

OTHER

EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES 16:00 - 18:00 A QUEER LOOK AT THE RED-GREEN ALLIANCE’S (ENHEDSLISTEN) 100-DAY PLAN

The Red-Green Alliance invites everyone to an open debate about the party’s plan for what will happen in the first 100 days, if the party achieves the power needed to create change. The panel will be filled with strong queer debaters, and the party hopes that you will also join in. The debate starts at 16:30. After the debate, the courtyard will host a lounge and community kitchen.

Enhedslisten, the courtyard behind Studiestræde 24, 1455 Copenhagen

16:00 - 18:00 SKAMLEBBEN - BOOK RELEASE

The publishing house Cobolt celebrates the release of Anne Mette Lorentzen's autofictional graphic novel SKAMLEBBEN. Language: Danish.

SORTE FIRKANT, Blågårdsgade 29 A-E, 2200 Copenhagen N

16:00 - 18:00 PRIDE FOOTBALL [SOCCER] TOURNAMENT

Pan Idræt and the Danish sporting associations meet again this year for a mini-tournament in connection with Copenhagen Pride. The purpose is to turn the spotlight to diversity and inclusion in the sporting world in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity. Pan Idræt has for years worked with sporting associations to emphasise the important message that there is a place for everyone in sports, and at this event DBU (the Danish football/soccer association), DGI (the umbrella organisation for many sports associations) and the Danish Professional Soccer Players’ Union will put it beyond doubt that everyone must feel welcome in football clubs and any other sports run by Danish associations. Come and join in spreading some great mood, and cheer for your favourite players!

Nytorv, 1450 Copenhagen

17:00 - 17:45 THE STORY OF A RAINBOW MOM

For heterosexual women close to their eggs expiration date the biological clock is ticking like crazy and the men are running as fast as they can. But that is not the case with homosexual men – on the contrary. More and more heterosexual women choose to have a rainbow child. Come and hear Karen Therkelsen tell you about her considerations, downs and the ultimate happiness as a rainbow mom.

Copenhagen Pride, H. C. Andersens Boulevard 27, 1553 Copenhagen

17:00 - 18:30 PRIDE WALKING TOUR

Come for a 'hyggelig' (cosy) 90 min tour of Copenhagen and hear the long and colourful history of queer Denmark, including the evolution of the gay civil rights movement and how it shaped Copenhagen into one of the most gay friendly cities in the world, plus highlighting bars, venues and some of the city's best naughty places. Language: English. Price: 50 DKK. The steps in front of the City Hall, 1599 Copenhagen Look for the rainbow umbrella.

17:00 - 20:30 PRIDE AT GLYPTOTEKET

18:00 + 19:15 cANAL TOURS

After last year’s success with sold out departures, we are proud to give you a very warm welcome on board the fifth series of cAnal Tours. cAnal Tours is the ultimate guided tour in the channels of Copenhagen. The best way to kick off your Copenhagen Pride week. Our guides in drag are ready to give you an experience you'll never forget; Jokes, songs and definitely naughty fun in the best cAnal tradition. Get your sea legs over to the harbour and come sail with us – we have new boats and cold drinks. Language: English. Tickets: 100 DKK via billetto.dk Ved Stranden 26, Kajplads 5 (Højbro Plads), 1061 Copenhagen

18:00 - 20:00 COME SEE THE SLM CLUB

Scandinavian Leather Men marks Pride Week 2018 with a 2 hour "open house" event. Many ask: What does SLM look like on the inside?

Now you have the opportunity to see for yourself. The bar will be open and board members will be there to show you around.

Men only over 18 years.

SLM Copenhagen, Lavendelstræde 17 (back building), 1462 Copenhagen K

18:00 - 20:00 DANISH PREMIERE ON “PARENT SPEED MATCHING” If you are dreaming of finding a co-parent you now got the chance to meet many potential ones in only two hours. All you got to do is show up in Copenhagen Pride’s premises. It all begins with a short introduction and input to conversation topics from Karen Therkelsen, a rainbow mom and the initiator of “Parent speed Matching”. It has never been easier to go hunting for a co-parent.

Copenhagen Pride, H. C. Andersens Boulevard 27, 1553 Copenhagen

20:00 - 22:00 DON'T EVER WIPE TEARS WITHOUT GLOVES

For Copenhagen Pride Week, Eventministeriet revives at the Royal theatre the critic acclaimed, moving, relevant, stage version of Jonas Gardell’s book trilogy, “Don’t ever wipe tears without gloves” about the AIDS crisis in Stockholm of the mid 1980s – Johannes Lilleør is radiant as Paul and Simon Bennebjerg exposes the full vulnerability of Benjamin to the audience. Language: Danish.

Skuespilhuset, Sankt. Annæ Plads 36, 1250 Copenhagen K

21:00 SOUND - MUSIC FOR YOUR FEET

Sound takes over the Great Stage at Centralhjørnet. Familiar beats and lovely harmonies will stream from the Great Stage this day.

Centralhjørnet, Kattesundet 18, 1458 Copenhagen

22:00 - 03:00 BEARD’S NIGHT - PRIDE 2018

Do you think that real men are bearded men? Then grow your beard and join BEARDS’ Night in SLM Copenhagen. Dresscode: Full beard. The event ends at about 03 am and you can enter until midnight.

SLM Copenhagen, Lavendelstræde 17 (back building), 1462 Copenhagen K

Come along, when Glyptoteket lift the covers on Antiquity’s diverse love stories. Listen to literary scientist Dag Heede tell about the roman Emperor Hadrian’s relationship with gorgeous twink Antinous, witness Ellen Hillingsøe read poetry by Sappho about the love of other women, and join the walking tour Fall of the Fig Leaf that examines art’s portrayal of sexuality.

Find more information at the Facebook event: Pride på Glyptoteket.

Glyptoteket, Dantes Plads 7, 1556 Copenhagen

17:00 COCKS ON BLOX

Drag Catwalk Competition: D.R.A.G. (Dressed As Girl) is an ancient word from the times when there were no female actors. Male actors would dress up in women’s clothes and put on makeup and could then play the female parts as drags. Participating drags will be rated by a qualified jury. Prices, gift cards for DKK 2,000, 1,000 and 500 for no. 1, 2 and 3! Stay tuned on blox.dk and oaonline.dk for further information about signing up.

Bryghuspladsen by Blox, 1473 Copenhagen

Photographer: Tobias Jørgensen

cAnal Tours 18:00 + 19:15

FRIDAY 17/8

HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAM 14:00 - 14:45 INTERSECTIONALITY 101

Have you also wondered what intersectionality is, can and should do?

The term comes from academia, but it actually makes good sense to use it in everyday activism. Join Sabrina Vitting-Seerup, a ph.d. scholar at the University of Copenhagen in the field of representation, when she tells more about intersectionality at a level everyone can follow. Language: Danish.

Venue: Hovedkassen, Copenhagen City Hall

14:00 - 14:30 QUEER CINEMA AND MEDIA IN SOUTH ASIA

Our guests Kapil Sharma and Yuvraj Parshar (filmstars and producers) will discuss why it is important to create visibility for queer and LGBT minorities through the medium of cinema. They will share their experiences behind the making of the first Indian mainstream gay love story "Dunno Y - Na jane Kyon" in early 2010. Since then they have been making several other LGBTIQ+ projects. We will also invite Waqas Aziz (activist and film festival producer) from Pakistan who is part of Aks Festival. Language: English.

Venue: Debate tent on the Rainbow Square

14:00 - 14:45 GUIDE TO POLY RELATIONS

What happens, when we let go the idea of monogamy being the only right way to love? How can one learn to appreciate different kinds of love, to deconstruct jealousy and to question our assumptions and expectations about romantic relations? Is a loved one always the most important relation in our lives? The two hostesses of the Fabulous Feminists podcast invite you inside a conversation room, where we’ll share our knowledge and experience about how love can be something other and more than a twosome. Language: Danish.

Venue: Brasserie Royal on the Rainbow Square

14:45 - 15:45 ARE LGBTQ+ YOUTHS ADVANTAGED OR AT-RISK?

Are LGBTQ+ youths an at-risk population group, or is Denmark due to its liberal-mindedness and tolerant society a safe space to grow up as an LGBTQ+ person? AURA is a community for youths, who break the norms for gender and sexuality. These youths experience a sense of belonging, share experiences and support each other. Why do the youths not have that same opportunity in traditional communities such as the school, sports associations and after-school clubs? Language: Danish.

Venue: Debate tent on the Rainbow Square

15:00 - 15:45 YAOI (ISTANBUL)

Film project by Lotte Nielsen. YAOI (Istanbul) depicts a group of youngsters from the LGBT scene from Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. It takes place under the de facto dictatorship in Turkey at a time when conditions for LGBT people in the country are greatly exacerbated. We meet Nirhan, Yunus and Hakan, who introduce us to their personal lives: their first sexual encounters, their relationship to their parents and the thoughts of suicide that several of them have had. Language: English.

Venue: Brasserie Royal on the Rainbow Square

15:00 - 15:45 INCREASED EFFORTS THROUGH THE HPV VACCINE TO MSMS

It is estimated that around 80 % of sexually active persons are infected

by HPV at some point during their lives. Especially men, who sleep with men (MSMs) are a group at risk, since they have an increased risk of developing anal cancer due to the HPV virus and were not previously offered a vaccination. AIDS-Fondet and the Danish Health Authority have therefore joined forces to offer a free HPV vaccine to boys between 15 and 20 years of age in a limited period of time. Come and hear more about the background for this offer, and the importance of the efforts directed at just this target group. Language: Danish.

Venue: Hovedkassen, Copenhagen City Hall

16:00 - 16:45 GENDER, EQUALITY AND NORM-CRITICS IN THE WELFARE EDUCATIONS

Since 2014, students at the first semester of the bachelor’s degree in Social Education have been taught a 6-week module called ‘Gender, sexuality and diversity’. That module touches on a vast number of themes related to the professional work in social education – including gender identity, gendered and gender-divided activities, gender roles, accommodation, language, sexuality and sexual development across different age groups and difference social education specialities. We look at the understanding of normality and deviation, norm-critical social education, intersectional perspectives, heteronormativity, family forms, equality and more. Language: Danish.

Venue: Debate tent on the Rainbow Square

16:00 - 16:45 THE GLOBAL FIGHT FOR LGBTI RIGHTS: HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS SHARE THEIR STORIES

Today, LGBTI rights are under pressure on a global scale. Facing discrimination, violence and legal persecution, activists all over the world are raising their voices and mobilizing to stand up and claim their human rights. For this debate, we have invited some of these activists to join us and share their stories and perspectives from their respective countries and regions. Language: English.

Venue: Hovedkassen, Copenhagen City Hall

16:45 - 17:00 BRUSH-UP

What are gender and norms? What are sexuality and sexual orientation?

Who are covered by the abbreviation LGBTQIA+? Come and learn more about LGBTQIA+, gender, norms and sexuality, or have your knowledge refreshed in a quick and accessible format. Language: Danish.

Venue: Debate Tent on the Rainbow Square

17:00 - 17:45 OVERLOOKED IN THE HEALTH SECTOR

According to studies, LGBT+ persons are met by a lack of understanding several places in the health sector. Among other things, several are afraid to openly discuss their sexuality, sexual practices or gender identity with their general practitioner and other health staffers, fearing differential treatment. On the flip side, those LGBT+ persons who do speak openly of this are often met with a lack of understanding from the health personnel. We invite you to a debate about how we can create more attention about the area, and what the groups of health workers can do to better prepare for meeting LGBT+ persons. Language: Danish.

Venue: Debate tent on the Rainbow Square

17:00 - 17:45 DIVERSITY ON THE SCHOOL TIMETABLE

How do we make sure that school and youth education centres support diversity? How do we ensure that LGBT+ children and youths must not go through life with a feeling of being different and being excluded? In this debate, we focus on the importance of norm-critical teaching in gender, body and sexuality in the Danish education system. Language: Danish.

Venue: Hovedkassen, Copenhagen City Hall

17:00 - 17:45 BEING OUT

Being “out” as an LGBTQ person is important to many, but we are all different people with different backgrounds, and therefore the choice to “be out” can be different from each person to the next, and from each context to the next. For example, how does being religious or coming from a religious family affect how “out” you are; and is it important to be out at your workplace or between your old friends? Do LGBTQ persons have a responsibility themselves to create changes, making it easier to be out, or must society take up that responsibility? This, and much more, we will try to learn more about in this debate. Language: Danish.

Venue: Vartov, Farvergade 27, 1463 Copenhagen

TUESDAY FRIDAY 17/8 8/16

17:00 - 19:00 S&M 101

An introduction to the joys and duties, pleasures and pains of sadomasochism. We want to give you a view of what SM is, how it’s lived, which precautions should be taken and what the respective roles entail. The presentation will contain a review of pain affliction with a hands-on approach, where you will have the chance to learn more about different techniques. This workshop is facilitated by Sanne and Mads and is a safe-space workshop, where all LGBTQIA+ persons are welcome to participate. Language: Danish.

Venue: AIDS-Fondet, Vestergade 18E, 1456 Copenhagen

18:00 - 18:45 LGBTQIA INCLUSIVE UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENTS

Universities are spaces of learning and socialization; they form a large part of students’ life and are central to their identity building. Universities must, therefore, create safe environments for young LGBTQIA people in Denmark. From the first promotion material through the intro week to daily teaching and student life – questions of sexuality and gender identity run through everything, and addressing such questions is, for many LGBTQIA persons, paramount to their personal well-being and success as students. With this debate, we will problematize the university environment as a (hetero)sexual space and discuss how to make this environment more LGBTQIA inclusive. Language: English.

Venue: Debate tent on the Rainbow Square

18:00 - 18:45 HATE CRIMES IN THE PRE-PREPARATORY SCHOOLING Crimes driven by hate to minorities is a persistent problem in Denmark.

Although the problem is smaller here than in many other locations, it is still vital to prevent hate crimes. But how do we do that the best way possible? Should hate crimes be on the school timetables? Should it be part of a workplace’s continuing education offerings? Or something else entirely? AIDS-Fondet together with LGBT Denmark invite you to a debate, where you will hear new angles on a much too old problem – just like you will have your own chance to present constructive suggested solutions. Language: Danish.

Venue: Hovedkassen, Copenhagen City Hall

19:00 - 19:45 DIVERSITY PARTY ODENSE – RETHINKING THE PRIDE?

Every major Danish city has a Pride Parade, except for Odense. Instead, Odense has established a Diversity Party. Come and hear a presentation from two of the driving forces behind the initiative of Diversity Party Odense. Here, you will hear the story of rethinking what diversity as a concept actually means, and the importance of thinking in diversity in a time, where Odense is facing intense urban renewal. After that, a receptive dialogue with audience input is on the cards. Language: Danish.

Venue: Debate tent on the Rainbow Square

19:30 - 21:00 FETISH 101

What is a fetish? What does it mean to be a fetishist? How do you practice it? Where do you buy fetish gear? What happens at a fetish party? Can I practice a fetish without having sex? Is there a difference between straight and gay fetishism? What is the history of fetishism in Denmark? These and many more questions Sanne and Mads will try to answer during Fetish 101. The workshop is a safe-space workshop, where all LGBTQIA people are welcome to participate. Language: English.

Venue: AIDS-Fondet, Vestergade 18E, 1456 Copenhagen

Photo: Stock

Hate crimes in the pre-preparatory schooling 18:00 - 18:45, Hovedkassen

DRAG NIGHT IS PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY 7-ELEVEN DANMARK

Drag Night 2018 19:45 - 23:45, Pride Stage

Photographer: Wilfred Gachau

PRIDE SQUARE 12:00 - 23:00 STYLING WITH WELLA

Stop by the pop-up salon by Wella at Pride Square and get your Pride Hair styled. Open all Friday.

13:00 - 16:00 BE CREATIVE WITH NORMSTORMERNE

Do you need a norm critical badge, a sticker, a painting, a board to the Pride Parade or something totally different? Join in and be creative with Normstormerne when we hang out at AIDS-Fondet’s tent. We have some material – such as paint, paper, scissors, badge machine – but please feel free to bring a t-shirt, a dishcloth or a painting, which needs to get a norm critical twist.

15:00 - 19:00 STEAMY/LOTS OF/QUICK/INTIMATE SEX? FOR SURE! Sex can be amazing. Particularly if you don’t have to think about the risk of getting infected with HIV or other STIs when you are turned on. During the last couple of years, several alternatives in regard to protection against HIV have become a reality. But how you should or want to protect yourself depends on who you are having sex with and the sex you are having. Come by AIDS-Fondet at Pride Square and get information on the options within how you can protect yourself and your sex partners for HIV.

16:00 - 18:00 CHECKPOINT OFFERS HIV TESTING

Get tested for HIV in AIDS-Fondet’s tent at Pride Square. The test is a oral test, and you will get the result the next day.

17:00 - 18:00 PAN DANS

Pan Dans invites you to a dance party in front of the stage on Pride Square.

FRIDAY 17/8

PRIDE STAGE 19:45 - 23:45 DRAG NIGHT 2018 - QUEENS OF POP

This year’s Drag Night is dedicated to the undisputed queen of Pop: Madonna! We have invited a Gang Bang of drag queens on stage to give us their Next Best Things of Madonna acts in a 4-hour long drag show and once again you can expect to see one of Europe’s absolutely biggest and most Amazing drag shows.

LINE-UP: Megan Moore, Tinus, Harley Queen, We Do Madonna, Denise Delight, Di Di Cancerella, Faux Phoenix, Jaxie, Chez Tity, Disturbing Business, Roxy Thyrune, Mariah Freefall, Ion, Miss Bonnie Honey, Betty Bitschlap, Jezebelle May Daniel's, Brynhildr, Lucciana, Veninderne: Chantal Al Arab, Jumbo Jette, Athena Lady & Miss Lucky.

The day before this year’s Drag Night is Madonna’s 60th birthday, and few superstars have like her meant so much for both gay culture and drag culture since the 1980s. With hits including Vogue and Express Yourself, Madonna has been in the lead with messages about the freedom to be yourself and the right to express yourself. At this year’s Drag Night, we celebrate her and Turn Up The Radio volume! Expect large numbers of Madonna hits, loving mixed in with other of pop’s greatest queens, all served by some of Denmark’s most skilled queens.

FRIDAY 17/8

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EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES 09:30 - 13:00 LGBT+ EQUALITY AT THE DANISH LABOUR MARKET FIU-Ligestilling joins the Copenhagen Pride celebrations by, amongst other initiatives, hosting a conference where we sum up the presence of LGBT+ equality at the Danish labour market and in the labour unions as well as discuss possible ways to act. For sign-up and more information: susanne.fast.jensen@3f.dk. Language: Danish.

3F, Kampmannsgade 4, 1790 København V

10:00 - 10:30 A DRAG QUEEN READS ALOUD FOR CHILDREN

In the name of Pride and diversity, a drag queen will read for children (ages approx. 3-6 years) at Copenhagen’s Central Library – both because reading is super important for that age group in order to develop language and fantasy, but also because it’s helpful for the kids to meet people that look ‘different’. Studies have shown, that such an experience helps make children more tolerant in later life. The event is mainly targeted at children and families, but anyone else is also welcome. The event will run for about half an hour, and the books that are read from will concern rainbow families and gender identity. Language: Danish.

Copenhagen Library, Salonen, Krystalgade 15, 1172 Copenhagen

12:00 - 18:00 GET MARRIED DURING COPENHAGEN PRIDE WEEK Love is love – seal yours at beautiful Sixtus Battery / the frigate Peder Skram. Both are located on the peninsula Nyholm in Central Copenhagen, giving you a spectacular view of Amalienborg Palace, the Royal Danish Opera House and the Marble Church. You can choose to get a person from the LGBTQIA community to perform your wedding speech. See who and how to apply at idocph.kk.dk.

Nyholm, Holmen, 1439 Copenhagen

16:00 - 18:00 LGBT+, WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND EQUALITY

In 2016, Akademikerne (Epinion) carried out a study of the labour market and the working environment for LGBT+ persons. The results were discouraging and showed that only a little less than one-third of those questioned considered it relevant to contact their trade union representatives in case of discrimination and exclusion. Considering this knowledge, and not least keeping in mind the new LGBTI action plan by the Danish Government, the Danish Association of Masters and PhDs (DM) calls a debate salon on this topic: What can labour unions do to improve the working environment for LGBT+ persons? Based on the debate salon, DM will join with participants from the various scenes and launch an effort to phrase a particular focus on the working environment for LGBT+ persons.

Come and help give voice to those challenges and, not least, give hope to the solutions. Sign-up through dm.dk; participation is free. Language: Danish.

Peter Bangs Vej 30, 2000 Frederiksberg

19:00 - 21:30 QUEERS

Queers celebrates a century of evolving social attitudes and political milestones in British LGBT+ history, told by eight characters in a series of monologues and performed in the intimate confines of Galathea Kroen – an art deco-themed pub located just a five-minute walk from Pride Square. Written by eight new and established writers including Mark Gatiss (Sherlock) and Brian Fillis (An Englishman in New York), Leftfield Theatre is extremely proud to challenge the medium of traditional storytelling and presents a wonderfully unapologetic spectacle of characters emerging from the dark to tell the extraordinary stories of queer Britons from the last 100 years.

Language: English. Tickets: 140 DKK / 300 DKK with dinner.

Ticket Availability: At Galathea Kroen or at via scenen.dk Galathea Kroen, Rådhusstræde 9, 1466 Copenhagen

21:00 LARS OUT LOUD

For the first time this year, Lars Out Loud will return to the Great Stage for a festive night with crisp, swinging, energetic and musical worldclass entertainment.

Centralhjørnet, Kattesundet 18, 1458 Copenhagen

20:00 - 22:00 DON'T EVER WIPE TEARS WITHOUT GLOVES

For Copenhagen Pride Week, Eventministeriet revives at the Royal theatre the critic acclaimed, moving, relevant, stage version of Jonas Gardell’s book trilogy, “Don’t ever wipe tears without gloves” about the AIDS crisis in Stockholm of the mid 1980s – Johannes Lilleør is radiant as Paul and Simon Bennebjerg exposes the full vulnerability of Benjamin to the audience. Language: Danish.

Skuespilhuset, Sankt. Annæ Plads 36, 1250 Copenhagen K

22:00 - 02:00 FULL FETISH PARTY - PRIDE EDITION

Full Fetish Party is a night in SLM where we go out in fetish. Strict dresscode: No jockstrap or naked - so find your sexy fetish outfit (leather, rubber, army etc.). The event ends at about 04 am. MEN ONLY. SLM Copenhagen, Lavendelstræde 17 (back building), 1462 Copenhagen

17:00 - 18:30 PRIDE WALKING TOUR

Come for a 'hyggelig' (cosy) 90 min tour of Copenhagen and hear the long and colourful history of queer Denmark, including the evolution of the gay civil rights movement and how it shaped Copenhagen into one of the most gay-friendly cities in the world, plus highlighting bars, venues and some of the city's best naughty places. Language: English. Price: 50 DKK. The steps in front of the City Hall, 1599 Copenhagen Look for the rainbow umbrella.

16.30 + 18:00 + 19:15 cANAL TOURS

After last year's success with sold out departures, we are proud to give you a very warm welcome on board the fifth series of cAnal Tours. cAnal Tours is the ultimate guided tour in the channels of Copenhagen.

The best way to kick of your Copenhagen Pride Week. Our guide in drag are ready to give you an experience you'll never forget; Jokes, songs and definitely naughty fun in the best cAnal tradition. Get your sea legs over to the harbour and come sail with us – we have new boats and cold drinks. Language: English. Tickets: 100 DKK via billetto.dk Ved Stranden 26, Kajplads 5 (Højbro Plads), 1061 Copenhagen

Photo: Copenhagen commune

Get married during Copenhagen Pride Week 12:00 - 18:00, Nyholm

SATURDAY 18/8

PRIDE STAGE 14:00 - 23:45 PRIDE SHOW 2018

True to tradition, Copenhagen Pride lights up the enormous Pride Show at Copenhagen City Hall Square/Pride Square on Saturday afternoon and evening. This year’s official host is journalist, debater and author Abdel Aziz Mahmoud, and he will undoubtedly spread love all over Pride Square and tie up the show on stage in all the colours of the rainbow. The show will also have a very special surprise, where we celebrate the 30th anniversary of one of Denmark’s most famous and most important pop songs.

PARADE 11:00 - 13:00 PARADE WARM-UP

DJ Wonderboy Cph is warming up for the parade, serving you all the best pride anthems and rainbow classics.

Frederiksberg Town Hall Square, 2000 Frederiksberg

13:00 - 15:30 COPENHAGEN PRIDE PARADE 2018

The parade takes off from Frederiksberg Town Hall Square at 13:00 and proceeds via Allégade, Frederiksberg Allé, Vesterbrogade, Hammerichsgade, Jarmers Plads and Vester Voldgade before finishing at Copenhagen City Hall Square (Pride Square).

LINE-UP 14:00 - 15:10 Glitter Boys (DK) 15:10 - 15:20 Prize award:

SALMON OF THE YEAR Awarded by LGBT Danmark.

15:20 - 16:30 DJ Gul (DK) 16:30 - 17:00 Official Pride 2018 speeches:

Speakers include Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Copenhagen Pride's vice chair Ane Rindom, Copenhagen Mayor for Culture and Leisure Niko Grünfeld, Alexandr Agapov of the Russian LGBT Sports Federation and more.

17:00 - 18:00 Lucas (S) Moody (DK) Housefrau (DK) 18:00 - 19:00 Ivy (S) Iris Gold (DK) Jonezy (DK) 19:00 - 20:00 Ida Corr (DK) Kill J (DK) 20:00 - 21:00 L.I.G.A (DK) Copenhagen Queens - Drag Show (DK) 21:00 - 22:00 Attention Whores / Mendoza (DK) Zebra Katz (US) 22:00 - 23:45 Robin Skouteris (GR) Photographer: Julie Vester Jørgensen

SATURDAY 18/8

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EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES 12:00 - 00z00 CENTRALHJØRNET’S PRIDE STREET PARTY

The entire Centralhjørnet team stand by to serve up beers, drinks, DJs and a Pride party on the street outside Centralhjørnet.

Centralhjørnet, Kattesundet 18, 1458 Copenhagen

13:00 - 00:00 STUDIESTRÆDE STREET PARTY

As always, Studiestræde is closed for traffic and transformed into a fabulous street party, arranged by some of the bars located in the street.

Studiestræde, 1455 Copenhagen

14:00 - 04:00 OSCAR PRIDE 2018

Oscar Bar & Café hosts a street party at Regnbuepladsen featuring an outdoor bar and DJs until midnight, followed by an indoors party with DJ Mikael Costa manning the mixing booth until 4 am.

Oscar Bar & Café, Regnbuepladsen 7, 1550 Copenhagen

15:00 - 20:00 LOVE FEST 2018

Brøchner Hotels invite you to LOVE FEST 2018 on the street with a heck of a party in front of Hotel SP34 in Sankt Peders Stræde. DJ’s, street food, drinks and dancing - all in the name of L-O-V-E. Sankt Peders Stræde, 1453 Copenhagen

16:00 - 23:00 FETISH CHILL OUT ZONE

Copenhagen Fetish Men welcomes you to this year’s Fetish Chill Out Zone in front of Men’s Bar on Teglgårdstræde 3. The Fetish Chill Out Zone opens directly after the pride parade has ended. Here You can meet guys in all types of fetishes, chill out, have a cold beer and enjoy some smooth house music. This is the afternoon party for all guys with a fetish. No dresscode.

Teglgårdstræde 3, 1452 Copenhagen

19:00 - 21:30 QUEERS

Queers celebrates a century of evolving social attitudes and political milestones in British LGBT+ history, told by eight characters in a series of monologues and performed in the intimate confines of Galathea Kroen – an art deco-themed pub located just a five-minute walk from Pride Square. Written by eight new and established writers including Mark Gatiss (Sherlock) and Brian Fillis (An Englishman in New York), Leftfield Theatre is extremely proud to challenge the medium of traditional storytelling and presents a wonderfully unapologetic spectacle of characters emerging from the dark to tell the extraordinary stories of queer Britons from the last 100 years.

Language: English Tickets: 140 DKK / 300 DKK with dinner.

Ticket Availability: At Galathea Kroen or via scenen.dk Galathea Kroen, Rådhusstræde 9, 1466 Copenhagen

22:00 - 02:00 SLM PRIDE PARTY 2018

After the Pride Parade SLM opens up the doors for Pride Party.

Dresscode: Masculine outfit. The event ends at about 04 am. Entry fee is 100 DKK and membership is not required this night. Men only.

SLM Copenhagen, Lavendelstræde 17 (back building), 1462 Copenhagen

23:00 - 05:00 THE OFFICIAL COPENHAGEN PRIDE PARTY 2018

As you know it and love it, Copenhagen Pride hosts the official Pride Party in Pumpehuset, where everyone is welcome to party, dance and celebrate love in all the rainbow colours right until the morning sun rises. We have brought DJs Cihan Akar and Mark Hartmann to Copenhagen to light up this year’s Pride Party, and we recommend that you buy tickets in advance at billeto.dk.

Price for advance purchase DKK 120 / in the door DKK 140.

Pumpehuset, Studiestræde 52, 1554 Copenhagen

Copenhagen Pride Parade 13:00 - 15:30

SUNDAY 19/8

OTHER

EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES 14:00 - 15:30 PRIDE SERVICE

Wrap up Copenhagen Pride in a pleasant manner with the annual musical service. We finish Pride Week with rhythmic music, and as always it is including and festive – includes lighting candles and comes with a glass of bubbly after the service. Everyone is very welcome.

Participants: CIC, Copenhagen Inclusive Churches; the youth choir of Sankt Jakobs Kirke and preacher Mia Rahr Jacobsen.

Sankt Jakobs Kirke, Østerbrogade 59, 2100 Copenhagen

16:00 - 19:00 FREE CONCERT IN SUPPORT OF TRANSGENDER CHILDREN

Wrap up Pride Week with a concert arranged by FSTB – the Association in Support of Transgender Children. From 16:00 to 17:00, bassist Mikkel Deleuran Hansen will play, followed from 17:30 to 19:00 by the jazz quartet Nordklang. The entrance is free, and you can buy drinks and snacks on location. All profits are donated to FTSB. uKirke, Dannebrogsgade 53, 1660 Copenhagen V

Photo: Wikipedia

19:00 - 21:30 QUEERS

Queers celebrates a century of evolving social attitudes and political milestones in British LGBT+ history, told by eight characters in a series of monologues and performed in the intimate confines of Galathea Kroen – an art deco-themed pub located just a five-minute walk from Pride Square. Written by eight new and established writers including Mark Gatiss (Sherlock) and Brian Fillis (An Englishman in New York), Leftfield Theatre is extremely proud to challenge the medium of traditional storytelling and presents a wonderfully unapologetic spectacle of characters emerging from the dark to tell the extraordinary stories of queer Britons from the last 100 years. Language: English.

Tickets: 140 DKK / 300 DKK with dinner.

Ticket Availability: At Galathea Kroen or via scenen.dk Galathea Kroen, Rådhusstræde 9, 1466 Copenhagen

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