Copenhagen Pride 2023 program (english)

PROGRAMME

WELCOME TO COPENHAGEN PRIDE WEEK!

It is our pleasure to welcome you to this year’s Pride celebrations in Copenhagen! We are also proud to share an ambitious nine-day program with you all. As always, the programme has been thought up, planned, and will be executed by our incredible volunteer groups - a huge thank you goes to them for their hard work in creating this event.

Indeed, our movement has only achieved things when we have come together. Which

BSP EVENTS

The Body and Sex Positive events are an important part of the programme, where we aim to create a safer space. The events center around subjects such as sexuality, sex, the body, gender and life experiences as a LGBTQ+ person. Our BSP content is presented through workshops, presentations and talks. For some events are subject to limited capacity and therefore require signing up beforehand.

In order to create a safer space for the participants, there are specific rules for the BSP events. The doors close when the events begin, so please be on time.

The rules are:

is why this years theme of Copenhagen Pride Week 2023 is Come Together

The decriminalisation of homosexuality (90 years ago this year in Denmark), equal age of consent, registered partnerships, adoption rights, legal gender recognition, hate crime legislation, the list goes on but all have only been possible because we could come together.

And now, in 2023, the need to come together has never been greater.

Nationalists, the far right, evangelical Christian groups, and gender critical and ‘anti-woke’ movements, and many others want to slow and reverse the progress we have made. To challenge these destructive and hateful narratives, and to support the LGBTI+ community globally, we must once again come together.

The events will take place in a closed-off room where photography or filming is not allowed. Tagging the participants on social media is also not allowed.

Doors close when the event begins. To avoid interruptions, it will NOT be possible to arrive late for BSP events. Please be on time.

What happens in the room, stays in the room. Respect the discretion of all participants and do not discuss the event or mention personal information obtained from the event with people who were not present.

And with that in mind, we invite you to join us for the biggest and boldest Copenhagen Pride Week yet. It is our sincere hope that we can create a space for the LGBTI+ community to come together in joy, understanding, and with curiousity for one another’s lived experience.

WELCOME!

VENUES

COMMUNITY GARDEN

A quieter and more secluded garden where you can retreat from the party, have a drink from our non-alcoholic bar, meet a wide range of LGBTI+ organizations and participate in social events. There will also be private space to change clothes if you want to do so. Find by the trees in the far end of City Hall Square.

Location: Pride Square

Step free access: Yes

SAFER SPACE TENT

The tent will be quiet and our Safer Space Team is here to talk to you, sit with you or otherwise look after your wellbeing.

Location: Community Garden

Step free access: Yes

THE DEBATE TENT

Explore your passion for human rights at our transformative debate tent. Engage in a diverse form of events from debates and conversations to quizzes.

Location: Regnbuepladsen

Step free access: Yes, but note the cobblestone pavement.

HOVEDKASSEN

Indulge yourself in captivating conversations and panels at our vibrant venue in the heart of the city. Enter through the main entrance on Pride Square and find the room in the leftmost corner.

Location: Copenhagen City Hall

Step free access: Yes, by asking the staff

MANNAZ

Step into this captivating venue where diverse LGBTI+ voices take center stage and will talk about various facets of the community. Mannaz’ office is located just down the street from Regnbuepladsen.

Location: Farvergade 2

Step free access: Yes

VARTOV: MATHILDE FIBER

Learn new perspectives and share knowledge on LGBTI+ issues at our workshop venue. Vartov is located just across the street from Regnbuepladsen. Go in through the gate and follow the signs.

Location: Farvergade 27

Step free access: Yes

VARTOV: GRUNDTVIG

Join us at our safer space venue for talks and workshops about body, mind, sex and sexuality. This venue is the BSP venue.

Location: Farvergade 27

Step free access: Yes

VARTOV: STORE SAL

Another venue for debates primarily focused on the workplace.

Location: Farvergade 27

Step free access: Yes

HUSET-KBH

Be part of the first PrideCon in Denmark! A place where fandom will meet Pride. Join a variety of panels, workshops and social events at Huset-KBH. Huset is located three minutes walk from Regnbuepladsen. In front, you’ll find Bastard Café.

Location: Rådhusstræde 13

Step free access: Yes, by asking the staff.

THE CORNER

On 13-16 August, this intimate stage will create the framework for talks and performances at eye level with the audience. Find it on the far end of Pride Square, towards H.C. Andersens Boulevard.

Location: Pride Square

Step free access: Yes

PRIDE WEEK STAGE

A larger stage for concerts and performances from 12-16 August. Find it on Pride Square next to City Hall.

Location: Pride Square

Step free access: Yes

SHOW STAGE

The big stage for the spectacular shows for Youth Nights, Drag Night, and the Pride Show on 17, 18, and 19 August. Located right in front of City Hall.

Location: Pride Square

Step free access: Yes

GRAND TEATRET

Again this year we are working together with Grand Teatret to host a number of LGBTI+ film screenings.

Location: Mikkel Bryggers Gade 8

Step free access: No

PRIDE ART

From 14-19 August, the Pride Art exhibition will be open to visitors from 12-20. The exhibition is free to enter.

Location: Nytorv

Step free access: Yes

RÅDHUSHAVEN

A cosy space for families and kids, Rådhushaven will be open on 13 and 19 August with fun activities and a calm space to relax in.

Location: Rådhushaven (entry from H.C. Andersens Boulevard)

Step free access: Yes

14.00-15.00

The Big Sex Quiz!

16.00-18.00

Open counselling: LGBT+ Parenting

18.00-19.00

Friendship Dating

14.30-15.30

How do we make the nightlife safer?

16.00-16.30

DJ Diana Diamond

18.00-19.00

The Drag School’s Drag Show

19.00-19.30

Voguing Class

19.45-20.15 Barbro

20.30-21.00

Nao Mali

21.15-22.00

Ballad night - DJ Elijah Kashmir

14.00-14.30

alex blum

16.30-17.15

The Pride Parade is still a protest demonstration

17.30-18.00

Tyrannosaurus Regs

13.00-15.30

Badge and signage workshop with AURA KBH

16.00-18.00

Experiences from my intersex life

19.00-22.00

Shisha Lounge and Quiz

16.15-16.45 Spring & I

17.00-17.15

Mystical Alliance Circus Performance

17.45-18.00

Host speech

18.00-19.00

Comedy Queens

19.15-19.45 NIMĀ

20.00-20.30

Julie Pavon

21.00-21.45

Ravi Kuma

22.00-22.45

Bazooka Babe + DJ

19.00-23.45

Drag Night

14.00-15.20

DJ Soleil

15.20-16.45 DJ SCHAARUP

17.30-19.00

Queer Music Agency Showcase

19.15-21.00

Reiley + BATHSHEBA

21.00-23.45

First Hate + Robin Skouteris

12.00-20.00

Opening hours

17.00-18.30

Performance: Rikke Bogetoft

12.00-20.00

Opening hours

17.00-18.00

Artist Talk

12.00-20.00

Opening hours

17.00-17.30

Performance: Nicolai Risbjerg

16.00-18.30

Family picnic in Rådhushaven

PROGRAM OVERVIEW: HUMAN RIGHTS & PRIDE CON

14.00-14.45

Freedom rights under pressure

15.00-15.45

Alliances between minorities

16.00-16.45

Current

17.00-17.45

Freedom of sex & sexual liberation

18.00-18.45

Living in Copenhagen is a Privilege?

19.00-20.00

When did drag become dangerous?

20.30-21.30

Jaxie’s Game Show x CopenhagenPride

14.00-14.45

LGBT+ persons and their parents

15.00-15.45

In a World With Bi+phobia

Hovedkassen

16.00-16.45

Queer Asylum - A uncertain life in Denmark

17.00-17.45

Bridging the Gap for LGBT+ Workers

14.00-14.45

Sabaah’s peer-to-peer work

15.00-15.45

Across Communities

16.00-16.45

Masculinity = sexuality?

17.00-17.45

Sexual education for adults

18.00-18.45

To play sports as queer

19.00-20.00

#HateHurts

20.30-21.30

Rainbow Pub Quiz x Pride

14.00-14.45

Egg donation between partners

15.00-15.45

Book: Like rooting in quicksand

16.00-16.45

Child in a rainbow family

17.00-17.45

How to be a supporting colleague?

Vartov

Note: multiple venues

14.00-14.45

Birth leave rights for LGBT+ people

15.00-15.45

Justice Committee on Hate Crimes

15.00.16.30

Workshop: DEI

16.00-16.45

Towards a queer inclusive workplace

16.45-18.15 and 19.00-20.30

Queer Rope Intro - BSP event

17.00-17.45

Sexual health for all

17.00-18.30

Workshop: Anti-Racism

15.00-16.30

Workshop: Online Debate and Trolls

17.00-18.00

Coming to terms with femininity BSP event

19.00-20.30

Sex, Signalling Molecules & SM BSP event

Mannaz

The Debate Tent

WEDNESDAY 16 AUGUST

13.00-13.45

Minister for Equality in Debate

14.00-14.45

Paternalism and belief in authority

15.00-15.45

LGBTQI+ Rights and Diplomacy

16.00-16.45

Are associations for LGBTI+ youth?

17.00-17.45

Repression in Uganda: implications

18.00-18.45

Queer Sounds and Silences

19.00-20.00

Iran’s LGBTI+ Struggle

20.30-21.30

Pride Sing-A-Long

THURSDAY 17 AUGUST

14.00-14.45

Gender and Autism

15.00-15.45

Inuit and 2SLGBTI+ Rights

16.00-16.45

Ghana and Uganda, LGBT Under Attack

17.00-17.45

Spaces for all LGBTI+ people?

18.00-18.45

Unveiling Europe’s Ballroom Culture

19.00-20.00

Organizing Pride in Hostile Places

20.30-22.00

Silent Disco x Pride

14.00-14.45

HIV/AIDS in the Nordic countries

15.00-15.45

Diverse Communities for the youth

16.00-16.45

Didn’t you used to be…?

17.00-17.45

Expectations of my body vol. 3

Watch from home: all events in Hovedkassen and the Debate Tent will be live-streamed via Copenhagen Pride’s Facebook and YouTube channel.

14.00-14.45

Creating a family as a LGBTI+ person

15.00-15.45

Homophobia in the Church

16.00-16.45

LGBTI+ Shelters

17.00-17.45

Sex on drugs: New health crisis?

16.30-17.30

Invisible Disabilities and Queer - BSP event

19.00-20.30

Kinks 2.0 - BSP event

Note: multiple venues

WEDNESDAY

12.00-24.00

Board Games and Fun

17.00-18.00

JK Rowling’s transphobic development

17.00-18.00

Queerbaiting in popular culture

17.00-20.00

Table top role play session

18.30-19.30

Costumes, gender, and creativity

20.00-21.00

Women in armour

20.00-21.00

Interactive Choose Your Own Adventure

20.00-22.00

Bring your own gaming device

12.00-24.00

Board Games and Fun

17.00-18.00

Fanfiction and Community

17.00-20.00

Magic meetup

18.00-19.00

Cosplay Catwalk Youth

18.00-19.00

Pokemon Go meetup

18.30-19.30

Normbreaking role play

20.00-21.00

Cosplay Catwalk 18+

20.00-22.00

How to write an inclusive campaign

14.30-23.45

PRIDE WEEK OPENING SHOW

Chantal Al-Arab is hosting as we open this year’s Copenhagen Pride Week with a fantastic show featuring DJs, drags and live music.

Venue: Pride Week Stage

14.30-16.00

DJ JONAS TUK

Jonas Tuk is one of the freshest breaths from the Copenhagen scene. He has an insatiable love for music, and he is a very versatile DJ, which you can feel in the way he plays at the decks. Jonas is a DJ in constant development, and has never locked himself into one genre, though he has always had a love for techno and electronic sounds.

Venue: Pride Week Stage

16.00-17.40

DJ ROSA LUX

It’s been 12 years since Rosa Lux had her big breakthrough with her debut album ”Monsters”. When Rosa plays, it’s never certain where we will end, but expect Afrobeat, House, Booty and Pop.

Venue: Pride Week Stage

17.45-18.15

OPENING SPEECH BY POLITICAL CHAIRPERSON LARS HENRIKSEN

Come and hear our political chairperson welcome you to this year’s Pride and also reflect on the situation for LGBTI+ people in Denmark.

Venue: Pride Week Stage

18.15-20.30

THE REFLECTIONS + FVN + BAMBI MILAN

The Reflections are a new Danish band represented by Queer Music Agency. With a baggage full of sassiness, FVN is heading for the stars. It’s girl power for all the money when FVN takes us into her rap universe. DJ Bambi Milan plays House in most of its forms, but preferably a lot of old school house to honour the LGBTI+ roots, mixed with a lot of new stuff and a few pop hits to get the party started.

Venue: Pride Week Stage

20.30-21.40

BETTY BITSCHLAP + TANDEM

Betty Bitschlap is Denmark’s only music publishing drag queen. But even though she is queer, her music is straight forward. And Betty is a serious pop girl who delivers great songwriting, catchy music and high-level production. Tandem is two young men who let music pierce through their thick skin, making it pour out with unfiltered emotion. On stage, Tandem focuses greatly on creating an immersive experience. With their odd, spontaneous stage presence, the duo aims to subject both newcomers and long-time fans to a well-deserved mixture of laughter and tears.

Venue: Pride Week Stage

21.00-08.00

IF I CAN’T DANCE, IT’S NOT MY PRIDE

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the abolition of Danseforbuddet, which for decades prohibited men from dancing together in public spaces, the nightclub Den Anden Side and Copenhagen Pride are hosting an event to

celebrate the dance communities in Copenhagen that continue to resist oppression and queerphobia. With talks, dance workshops, live performances curated by choreographer alex blum and DJ sets by Sekena Ali, DJ Nah Care, and others, Den Anden Side creates space for the politics of dancing bodies.

Location: Axeltorv 5

Participants: Den Anden Side, alex blum

No step free access

21.45-23.45

DJ TONNY LILJENBERG + EVITA KEDAVRA, KAYCEY JAYNE, DANICA DIMEFOX

Get ready for a unique dancing experience. Tonny Liljenberg (aka Dragdaddy) has been DJing for over 20 years in various queer clubs around the world and he is also the owner of Draghouse and the producer of Copenhagen Pride’s Drag Night. For this particular dj set he has combined the world of DJing with the art of drag and has invited three amazing drag performers to join in. You can expect pop, house and dance music, sprinkled with drag performances, live vocals and dancers.

Venue: Pride Week Stage

09.00-16.00

SUNDAY COSINESS IN RÅDHUSHAVEN

There are lots of fun activities for children and rainbow families in Rådhushaven. Build with LEGO and Duplo, play tumbling games with bObles, take a ride in VW walking cars, draw your family, colour your own rainbow, get colourful Pride nails – and much more! So come and enjoy yourself in a calm and child-friendly environment.

Venue: City Hall Garden

13.00-13.30

MAGIC CHILDREN’S SHOW

Come and experience the talented performers Di Di Cancerella, Diana Diamond and Mizz Privileze create magic for the kids.

Venue: City Hall Garden

13.00-14.00

QUEER COMMUNITY SINGING GROUP: WORKSHOP

Queer Community Singing Group is a fun and diverse singing group that is an evolution of the traditional choir. To be more inclusive of all voice types and gender identities, the group will sing in voices to create harmonies instead of the traditional SATB choir format. Together we create a musical space where queer people can come together and participate in a meaningful and creative community, singing familiar pop songs regardless of previous musical experience. We will be working towards a short performance on Pride Week Stage for those who would like to be a part of this. It will take place in the afternoon on Tuesday 15 August.

Venue: The Community Tent

13.30-15.00

VYTAS

Vytas aka Vytautas Jurevicius is an artist who brings together music from classic ambient to techno, creating eclectic mixes in collabora-

tion with producers, choreographers, different communities, and artists worldwide. Vytas opens Pride Square with an hour and a half long DJ set and a message of compassion and unity.

Venue: Pride Week Stage

15.00-16.45 and 17.45-19.30 / DRAG BINGO: ‘VENINDERNE’ REUNITED!

They are back! Faster, better, and stronger than ever before. Jumbo Jette is eager to show off her new hair and Athena has been practising all numbers between 1 and 90, while Chantal has been busy ironing her brassieres. Nicholas Nybro has mainly been trying to stay sane around the girls. The four friends are here to entertain you with their bingo, fabulous prizes, and tall tales that you will be late to forget - even if you want to. Don’t miss out on the bingo event of the year!

Venue: The Corner Note: Limited seating, arrive in good time. Bingo cards are sold from the Pride Merch Shop at Pride Square. The price for a sheet of cards is 50 DKK.

16.00-19.00

PRIDE AND PREP YOUR SIGN

Walk with Sex & Samfund in the Copenhagen Pride Parade with your own sign and share your message! You are invited to draw and paint your sign with Sex & Samfund’s theme: Freedom of every body. It will be a pleasant afternoon where you can both express yourself creatively and meet others who also will be going with Sex & Samfund to the parade. We provide fresh and delicious supplies and the en-

tire palette of paint and glitter.

Venue: Community Tent

Participants: Sex & Samfund

17.00-17.45

CLASSICAL AT PRIDE WITH RAMEZ

MHAANNA & CHRISTINE BERNSTED

The award-winning, critically acclaimed classical pianist Ramez Mhaanna performs with Danish star violinist Christine Bernsted in this banger of a classical performance.

Venue: Pride Week Stage

19.00-21.00

FILM SCREENING: PRIDE

UK gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984. Earnest without being didactic and uplifting without stooping to sentimentality, Pride is a joyous crowd-pleaser that genuinely works. Language: English with Danish subtitles

Venue: Grand Teatret

Tickets: 75/100 DKK (with/without Copenhagen Pride support wristband) No step free access

Explanation of symbols

Danish spoken language

English spoken language

Step free access

Concert

Ticketed event

Event will be livestreamed

BSP BSP event, more info on p. 2 of the programme

19.30-20.15

BRYAN RICE TRIO WITH NOAH SKAALUM

18 years, 6 albums, several hit singles, and lots of live experience later, Danish pop singer/songwriter Bryan Rice (“No Promises”, “Homeless Heart”, “Breathing”, “Can’t Say I’m Sorry”, “Warriors”, etc.) is more ready than ever to present his new honest, positive, and very present lyrics and songs to a broad audience. Come join him for both a sing-along, party time, as well as a special guest appearance by Noah Skaalum on a cosy Sunday evening during Pride Week.

Venue: Pride Week Stage

20.15-21.00

THE SUPER SENSATIONAL RAINBOW SING-ALONG CONCERT!

Have you always dreamed of being the star on Broadway? Of being a part of the Pink Ladies, the Jets, or walking down the yellow brick road? Now is your chance. The Super Sensational Rainbow Sing-along Concert is here! We’ll go through a marvellous set of showtunes and queer anthems and you are in the ensemble! Grab a cast member and come sing with us.

Venue: The Corner

21.00-21.45

KEDDE

Kedde’s music is based on personal experiences and is sonically inspired by everything from heavy groovy pop to the vulnerable heartfelt singer-songwriter sound. However, the common ground between the seemingly different sources of inspiration for his sound is the unique sound of his voice that makes the two worlds blend seamlessly.

Venue: Pride Week Stage

13.00-14.00

QUEER COMMUNITY SINGING GROUP: WORKSHOP

Queer Community Singing Group is a fun and diverse singing group that is an evolution of the traditional choir. To be more inclusive of all voice types and gender identities, the group will sing in voices to create harmonies instead of the traditional SATB choir format. Together we create a musical space where queer people can come together and participate in a meaningful and creative community, singing familiar pop songs regardless of previous musical experience. We will be working towards a short performance on Pride Week Stage for those who would like to be a part of this. It will take place in the afternoon on Tuesday August 15th.

Venue: The Community Tent

13.30-15.00

VYTAS

Vytas aka Vytautas Jurevicius is an artist who brings together music from classic ambient to techno, creating eclectic mixes in collaboration with producers, choreographers, different communities, and artists

worldwide. Vytas opens Pride Square with an hour and a half long DJ set and a message of compassion and unity.

Venue: Pride Week Stage

14.00-14.45 / FREEDOM RIGHTS UNDER PRESSURE

Globally, we see well-coordinated efforts to limit sexual and reproductive rights. LGBTI+ rights and the right to abortion in particular are under pressure, and we see these tendencies from the USA spreading globally. In this debate, the panellists will discuss international perspectives on sexual and reproductive rights, Denmark as a forerunner, and how we (politicians and civil society) best can support the national, European, and global fight for freedom to love who you love and be who you are.

Venue: Debatteltet

Participants: Sex & Samfund

14.00-14.45 (on request)

LGBTI+ PERSONS AND THEIR PARENTS

A large number of LGBTI+ people have conflicts with their families due to the family’s lack of acceptance of

their gender identity and/or sexuality. Some experience getting thrown out or end up in a shelter. At the same time many experience a longing for their family’s acceptance and love. We will, together with parents from Sabaah’s parent network and experts, talk about the complexity of these conflicts and share our experiences with building bridges between children, parents, and civil society.

Venue: Hovedkassen at City Hall

Participants: Sabaah

14.00-14.45

PARENTAL LEAVE RIGHTS FOR LGBTI+ PEOPLE

On 1 January 2024, the legislation on parental leave will expand with new possibilities for rainbow families and single parents. Join this event to know more about the work put into this new legislation and get an introduction to the new rules. Why did the Danish federation of workers take part in this work, and what part of the new legislation would you have to pay attention to?

Language: Danish

Venue: Vartov (Store Sal)

Participants: FH

15.00-15.45

ALLIANCES BETWEEN MINORITIES

No one’s free until everybody’s free. But how do we do this in practice? How do we ensure that the fight for freedom and equality - where we have gotten more aware of the intersections there are - becomes intersectional? How can we aid each other between different minority groups and organisations and together make each other stronger? And how do we ensure that no one is made out to be the scapegoat? This, and much more, will be discussed by a panel consisting of minority organisations.

Venue: Debatteltet

15.00-15.45

JUSTICE COMMITTEE ON HATE CRIMES

In 2023, a new police framework will be negotiated which frames the police’s finances and priorities for the next year. But how will this framework better ensure that the legal rights of queer people are met? Lev og Lad Leve invites you to an open session in the Justice Committee of parliament, where we will ask the different political parties’ spokesperson on law and justice how queer people’s rights and the rule of law are improved in the new framework.

Venue: Vartov (Store Sal)

Participants: Lev og Lad Leve

15.00-15.45

(on request)

IN A WORLD WITH BI+PHOBIA Bi+sexual, bi+romantic (and other terms that are sometimes used synonymously) are by many viewed as something dangerous or something to avoid. Despite the fact that these terms fit the most people within the LGBTI+ community, knowledge about us is limited and often misunderstood – and that leads to prejudice! Many bi+people therefore understandably choose to lay low. But we need to make sure there is also room for those who want to educate

others. This requires a community –Come Together!

Venue: Hovedkassen at City Hall. Participants: LGBT+ Denmark

15.00-16.30

WORKSHOP: DEI

Does your company want to improve on their work with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion? Are you interested in what measures your company can do that will support the wellbeing of minorities at your workplace? Bring a few colleagues and enjoy an inspiring afternoon workshop on DEI measures. You’ll get tips for the easy measures that will get you going before embarking on the more complex ones.

Venue: Vartov (Mathilde Fiber)

15.00-16.00

SEX, DRUGS AND SELFCARE

Sex on drugs is not a new thing in the LGBTI+ community – but it has become more widespread within recent years. And with more people using drugs, consequences, such as overdosing, follow. How do we best take care of each other – and ourselves? What do you do when someone is overdosing? Who do you call and what do you do after? Alongside Den Anden Side, we at the AIDS Foundation invite you to join us for an open and frank talk where you will learn how to keep your cool if things go awry.

Venue: The Community Tent Participants: The AIDS Foundation

15.00-16.00 (on request)

ACCESSIBLE LGBTI+ LITERATURE?

What is the current state of the prevalence of LGBTI+ literature in Denmark? In this conversation, we focus on the active effort it takes to make LGBTI+ literature accessible – and why it’s so important that

we do so. Authors Karin Lützen and Susanne Bösche will read from their own works, and Julie Ahle Dybvad, editor at SAGA, and Tobias de Fønss Wung-Sung, long-time volunteer at LGBT+ Denmark’s library, will provide the framework.

Venue: The Corner

16.00-16.45

CURRENT

We bide our time and see what the summer brings in terms of political debates. We have saved a spot in the programme so we are ready to discuss it! Follow the Facebook event for the chosen subject.

Venue: Debatteltet

ACCESSIBILITY AT PRIDE

We strive to create an inclusive space. At Pride Square, you will find accessible toilets next to the 7-Eleven tent.

On 17-19 August, we will have a wheelchair platform located by the fenced-off Dragon Fountain in the middle of the square. The other days, there will be a designated area available for wheelchair users.

Again this year, we are participating in the Sunflower Scheme, which shines a light on hidden disabilities. You can get a lanyard at the Pride Merch store free of charge.

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16.00-16.45 (on

request)

QUEER ASYLUM – AN UNCERTAIN LIFE IN DENMARK

LGBTI+ refugees who were granted asylum because of persecution in their countries of origin based on their sexuality or gender identity still lack a sense of security in Denmark. Permanent residence permits are hard to obtain, and refugees must reapply for a new temporary residence permit every year or two. The panel features LGBTI+ refugees sharing their experiences with living in this uncertainty, along with PhD scholars discussing their research.

Venue: Hovedkassen at City Hall

Participants: LGBT Asylum

16.00-16.45

TOWARDS A QUEER INCLUSIVE WORKPLACE

Are business interests being displaced by the DEI agenda (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion)? Ørsted invites you to a panel debate about what companies and their employees can and should do to create an inclusive and equitable workplace that helps to bring diversity and attract talent. The panel includes a queer person, the parent of a queer person, a political representative, and a business representative.

Venue: Vartov (Store Sal)

Participants: Ørsted A/S

16.00-16.45

SØREN TORPEGAARD LUND

Søren Torpegaard Lund is a prominent and rising name in Danish musical theatre and on the Danish music scene. He has been a part of shows like Kinky Boots, Grease, and Oliver and was last cast in the leading role of Tony in The Royal Theatre’s production of West Side Story. In February 2023, Søren took part in the Danish version of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Lige her”, which in his own words was an homage to his chosen family. He is a proud member of the LGBTI+ community and is looking forward to play both his own songs and other great tunes at this year’s Copenhagen Pride Week.

Venue: Pride Week Stage

16.45-18.15 and 19.00-20.30

QUEER ROPE INTRO

BSP

Are you LGBTI+? Do you want to learn to tie or be tied with rope in a safe environment? Then this is the workshop for you! This introductory class is for people with little or no experience with kinbaku/shibari. Registration in pairs required. Find more information on Facebook.

Venue: Vartov (Grundtvig)

16.45-17.30

CYBERNAUTERNE X PRIDE

But what about the children! Transphobia and the fight against drag queens are growing. Much of the hatred and many of the arguments start in the USA and in England, and several of those are repeats of arguments seen previously. Cybernauterne will in this live recorded special episode of their podcast take us on a journey through it all, so that we might better understand the wave of transphobia currently flooding Denmark.

Venue: The Corner

17.00-20.00

PRIDE ART: OFFICIAL OPENING

Join us as we celebrate the opening of the group exhibition A Part of Us, which explores the significance of belonging or being outside a community and proposes art as a space where we can come together across life experiences and identity. The opening will be marked with a speech.

Venue: Pride Art, Nytorv

17.00-17.45

FREEDOM OF SEX & SEXUAL LIBERATION

How does asexuality fit into the narrative of sexual freedom? Is freedom from sex a viable standpoint under the banner of sexual liberation? Sexual liberation has become part of the national narrative in Denmark, and the recent discussions of consent are another key to promoting equal sexual relations. But with the emphasis on being able to say yes and act out sexuality in all its diversity, people on the asexual spectrum can feel overlooked and trapped.

Venue: Debatteltet

Participants: Asexual Association Denmark

17.00-17.45 (on request)

BRIDGING THE GAP FOR LGBTI+ WORKERS

81% of LGBTI+ employees have experienced or witnessed discriminatory situations at work, often affecting well-being, job satisfaction, and achievement. Still, companies in Denmark face difficulties taking action. In this session, Gertie Find Laerkholm, Managing Director & Partner at Boston Consulting Group, will share insights from a recent national report BCG published with LGBT+ Denmark. Join us to understand LGBTI+ work challenges and explore concrete solutions that can ignite positive change.

Venue: Hovedkassen at City Hall

Participants: Boston Consultancy Group

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17.00-17.45

SEXUAL HEALTH FOR ALL

LGBTI+ people’s sexual health is significantly worse than the population at large. STIs, sexual assault, loneliness, and suicidal thoughts are heavily overrepresented. This is an acute and overlooked problem that we have to act on now. The AIDS Foundation therefore invites you to a debate on inequality in sexual health and how we can create sexual health for everyone. Now!

Venue: Vartov (Store Sal)

Participants: The AIDS Foundation

17.00-18.30

WORKSHOP: ANTI-RACISM

We want to become better at anti-racist work and we want to invite the rest of the community - activists as well as people wanting to know more - to learn with us. How do we ensure real inclusion, how do we amplify ethnic minority LGBTI+ voices and how do we avoid tokenism?

Venue: Vartov (Mathilde Fiber)

17.00-18.00

FRIENDSHIP DATING

Are you looking for new acquaintances and possible new friends within the LGBTI+ community? Then come to the Community Tent when we yet again host “Friendship Dating”. We will facilitate different conversations so that you will get the opportunity to talk to others and potentially expand your network. Who knows, perhaps you will meet some people that you can see yourself in or that can expand your horisont? Please participate with an open and curious mind. Everyone’s welcome, no signup necessary.

Venue: The Community Tent

cated to all musical enthusiasts out there. Experience a show with some of the greatest show tunes of our time but made drag with glitz, glam, showbiz, and a whole lot of theatrical acting and storytelling.

Venue: Pride Week Stage

18.00-18.45

LIVING IN COPENHAGEN IS A PRIVILEGE?

What influence does where you live have on your life? Are LGBTI+ people in Copenhagen more privileged than those living on Stevns or in Odense? What impact does it have on your wellbeing and opportunities and on the resistance you may face what city or municipality you live in? Is everything greener, better and safer in Copenhagen? With this debate we want to open up for a talk about privileges of living in certain cities but also to nuance the understanding that everything is better in cities.

Venue: Debatteltet

18.15-19.00

MARKUSSEN & RAABO

Markussen & Raabo put lyrics and delivery at the forefront. In a mellow soundscape, they insist on an experience of presence and empathy. The album “Holbæk Station” grew out of their experiences as teens and resonates with the time and the town where they grew up and eventually came out as gay. The 1980s was a time of existential questions, Cold War, environmental challenges, and AIDS. It’s a long time ago but both on an intimate and global level, Markussen & Raabo’s songs are still relevant today.

Venue: The Corner

18.30-19.30

more about the association and its work.

Venue: The Community Tent

Participants: Asexual Association

Denmark

19.00-20.00

WHEN DID DRAG BECOME DANGEROUS?

In March there was a demonstration outside Frederiksberg library because two drag queens performed for children. In the US several states have passed laws banning drag shows for children. The phenomena and the arguments quickly traverse the digital highways and have gotten a foothold in Denmark. What is this movement and what are the arguments they use against drag? Why do we, again, experience children being at the centre, and how should we counter the anti-drag and anti-trans groups?

Venue: Debatteltet

19.00-19.30

CONCERT WITH LESBISK PIK

There will be a party on Pride Square when Lesbisk Pik starts the trouble! It is punk, it is lesbian, and it will be a party! From Gothersgade to Femø Lesbisk Pik starts the party and adds to the resilience, and we are so thrilled that they stop by Pride Square.

Venue: Pride Week Stage

19.00-20.30

GIRLS IN UNIFORM

17.30-18.15

DRAG MY MUSICAL

Di Di Cancerella, Denise Delight, and Evita Kedavra are bringing Broadway to Pride Square with a show dedi-

MEET THE ACES AND THEIR ORGANISATION

Stop by and meet the volunteers in Asexual Association Denmark where you have the opportunity to learn

Fräulein von Bernburg is an empathetic teacher at an all-girls boarding school. When new student Manuela starts to fall in love with her kind tutor, pupil and teacher soon discover that their feelings are mutual. As Manuela seeks to follow her

heart, she encounters the challenges of pursuing a forbidden romance and a scandal soon erupts. A key film of the Weimar era, which also carries a potent anti-fascist message, Girls in Uniform is an undisputed landmark of lesbian representation on screen. The film is screened in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Dänemark.

Language: German with English

subtitles

Venue: Grand Teatret

Tickets: 75/100 DKK (with/without Copenhagen Pride support wristband)

No step free access

19.30-20.15

LITTLE TOO MUCH

Comedian Anshita Koul guests Pride Square with her first ever solo show in English! The show engages the audience with stories about why she switched careers from software engineering to hardware comedy, why she thinks marriage is a pyramid scheme, why she misses her catcallers back home, why she despises the question ‘how are you?’ and what happened when she came out to her folks as a vulva with opinions on Indian TV. 36, queer, married, childfree, and a comedian by profession, An-

shita is a poster child for everything patriarchy hates. But guess what? She hates it back even more.

Venue: The Corner

20.15-21.00

FREDDYQ FEAT. SINFOHME

FreddyQ is a provocative artist from Denmark who makes honest and fearless rap music about his life and experiences. As a gay man who spent six years serving in the army, he knows what it means to stand up for himself. As much as he makes fun and sexy music that reverses the typical expectations of rap by writing about men and queer relationships, he also makes music that confronts the listeners with their own prejudices. He will be joined by queer DJ Sinfohme and together they will create a very special show for you at Pride Square.

Venue: Pride Week Stage

20.30-21.30

JAXIE’S GAME SHOW X COPENHAGEN PRIDE

Denmark’s ONLY LIVE Game ShowJaxie’s Game Show - is happening at Copenhagen Pride! It is a spin the wheel battle between two selected players with categories of buffoonery, challenges and gaggery. It WILL be wild! This is a Pride edition, so expect pride to be the central concept. Bring your besties and let’s all try to win prizes - or cry trying! The audience participates and can win prizes

as well! Remember, this is a drag game show in a tent – It is all about having fun and acting a fool!

Venue: Debatteltet

21.00-21.45

SINFOHME

Anira Orlando aka Sinfohme is a queer trans woman of colour, who first and foremost started her DJ journey because she loves music but also because queer femme DJs like her are missing from the scene! Sinfohme plays pop, hip-hop/trap, oldschool throwbacks, Brazilian funk, and house/soft techno. She loves to vibe with the audience, to be creative with her outfits, and really provide a performance and an experience when she is on stage. She is sassy, smiling, outgoing, always ready to ‘tuuurn up’, and she closes the night at Pride Square with a bang!

Venue: Pride Week Stage

21.00-22.40

BEYOND THE REEL

Handpicked short films from MIX Copenhagen 2022. Scenes of dance, connection and magic from seven countries with QTIBIPOC at the centre. Representations of QTIBIPOC lives are oftentimes preoccupied with pain-centred narratives but our experiences also oscillate ferociously between euphoria, pleasure, and desire. This short film programme shows a broader spectrum of QTIBIPOC life. For details, including languages and trigger warnings, see the Copenhagen Pride app or Facebook event.

Venue: Grand Teatret

Tickets: 75/100 DKK (with/without Copenhagen Pride support wristband) No step free access

11.00-12.30

QUEER COMMUNITY SINGING GROUP: WORKSHOP

Queer Community Singing Group is a fun and diverse singing group that is an evolution of the traditional choir. To be more inclusive of all voice types and gender identities, the group will sing in voices to create harmonies instead of the traditional SATB choir format. Together we create a musical space where queer people can come together and participate in a meaningful and creative community, singing familiar pop songs regardless of previous musical experience. We will be working towards a short performance on Pride Week Stage for those who would like to be a part of this. It will take place in the afternoon on Tuesday 15 August.

Venue: The Community Tent

13.30-15.00

VYTAS

Vytas aka Vytautas Jurevicius is an artist who brings together music from classic ambient to techno, creating eclectic mixes in collaboration with producers, choreographers, different communities, and artists worldwide. Vytas opens Pride Square with an hour and a half long DJ set and a message of compassion and unity.

Venue: Pride Week Stage

14.00-14.45

SABAAH’S PEER-TO-PEER WORK

them? We will dive into both the activism, the healing and the joy of these meetings and what it takes to facilitate them.

Venue: Debatteltet Participants: Sabaah

14.00-14.45

EGG DONATION BETWEEN PARTNERS

CELEBRATE 50 YEARS OF BØSSEHUSET!

Based on Sabaah’s experience with facilitating rooms and conversations with BIPOC LGBTI+ folks we reflect on the effects of sharing stories, emotions and challenges. How do our participants use these conversations? And what kind of space do they create with

You will find Bøssehuset at Mælkevejen 69D in Christiania. The venue has step free access. Please note that Copenhagen Pride is not organising these events.

12 August 20.00-05.00

The big summer party XL: Bøssehuset 50 years

14, 15, 16 and 17 August 12.00-13.00

Queer Spirit Space

14, 15, 16 and 17 August 15.00-18.00

Dress café with coffee and cake

14, 15, 16 and 17 August 18.00-19.00

Community kitchen

14 August 19.00-23.00

Lyrical evening

15 August 14.00-23.45

Art Market & Mini Concert to support LGBT+ Rights Ghana

16 August 19.00-23.45

Lesbian campfire songs

17 August 20.00-23.45

Show evening with Smilla & other big stars

19 August 10.00-12.00

Warm-up for Pride Parade

In Denmark we have a highly developed system for fertility treatment that helps childless people with fertility treatment. Double donation is fully legal for cis-hetero couples that cannot have children. On the other hand cis-women, non-binary and trans men cannot legally access partner donation (pregnancy with a partner’s egg) without a medical reason. Is it not high time to change the law, or are there still medical arguments against partner donation?

Venue: Mannaz

14.00-18.00

/ THE HUMAN LIBRARY

The Human Library is a library of people. However, instead of books, people are being lent for conversations. The starting point for the concept is that we all could benefit from having our prejudices’ challenged. For that reason, the library creates a safe space for conversation where challenging topics can be discussed and talked over without condemnation. The human books each represent groups in the society who have directly or indirectly been exposed to prejudice, bias, and discrimination.

Venue: The Community Tent

15.00-15.45

ACROSS COMMUNITIES

Join us for a panel debate when the Association of Youth with Disabilities (SUMH) gathers a group of youth from different organisations to a conversation about communities. We look at what we have in common despite our differences, what a person gets from being part of a

community, and how we can support each other.

Venue: Debatteltet

Participants: The Association of Youth with Handicap

15.00-15.45

BOOK: LIKE ROOTING IN QUICKSAND

In February 2023, LGBT Asylum published the book “Like rooting in quicksand”. The book is an anthology of stories about LGBTI+ newcomers navigating life in Denmark after being granted asylum. And LGBT Asylum is launching a new Mentor Program to support integration in Denmark. Based on the stories of the book and Mentor Program, members of LGBT Asylum will take the stage and provide insight into the hopes, challenges, and accomplishments of LGBTI+ persons with refugee backgrounds in Denmark.

Venue: Mannaz

Participants: LGBT Asylum

15.00-16.30

WORKSHOP: ONLINE DEBATE AND TROLLS

Trolls and hate are abundant online. Sometimes we just want to escape it and sometimes we want to fight it. If you sometimes feel like the latter, but lack the tools and knowledge to do so, then you’ve come to the right place! We have invited Maia Kalhke-Lorentzen to do a workshop on this. When is the person a troll? When should you go into a debate with the other? What arguments work the best? This and much more you can learn about in this workshop.

Venue: Vartov (Mathilde Fiber)

15.00-15.15

QUEER COMMUNITY SINGING GROUP: PERFORMANCE

With this performance, the Queer Community Singing Group presents the culmination of several days of rehearsal and creative musical expression. Queer Community Singing Group is a fun and diverse singing

group that is an evolution of the traditional choir, and we’re excited to showcase ourselves and our voices. Come and show your support by listening!

Venue: Pride Week Stage

15.15-16.25

KÆRLIG HILSEN HADET

A harsh monologue by author and playwright Tomas Lagermand Lundme about being beaten down both physically and mentally. A monologue about getting up and going out into the world to another reality beyond hate, a new reality, and a new way of living your life instead of just living with it. Actor Johannes Nymark has taken on the role and the text and made it his own. The performance will be followed by a conversation between Johannes Nymark, Tomas Lagermand Lundme and director Christoffer Berdal.

Venue: The Corner Trigger warning! The performance touches on assault and rape

16.00-16.45

MASCULINITY = SEXUALITY?

Masculinity is often talked about as a subject disconnected from other parts of our identity. Yet masculinity intertwines with and sometimes creates conflicts with other aspects of our identities – things like sexuality, gender, social and everyday life. Through conversation we will explore how the experience and expression of (a)sexuality interacts with masculinity.

Venue: Debatteltet Participants: Asexual Association Denmark

16.00-16.45

CHILD IN A RAINBOW FAMILY

These days a lot of work is done to improve the rights, legal framework, and conditions for rainbow families. But too rarely do we listen to the stories of the children. How did they experience growing up in a rainbow family, how are they met and included in their day to day lives and what do they dream of in terms of changes for future generations of rainbow families? The panel will consist of adult rainbow children, amongst them Karla Rosalindma who were in the media with her story last year.

Venue: Mannaz

Participants: LGBT+ Denmark

16.30-17.15

QUEER READINGS: HEALTHCARE

For many LGBTI+ people the meeting with the healthcare system is a negative experience associated with stress, anxiety, postponing, and ignorance. Many of these experiences are

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described in literature, which provides a new understanding into what it means to be queer in a straight world. Join us when the AIDS Foundation invites you to a reading (including a poetry bingo!) by authors that have written about this meeting.

Venue: The Corner

Participants: The AIDS Foundation

17.00-18.00

ARTIST TALK: FRIDA RETZ & POLINA BACHLAKOVA

In the art porn piece Glory Hoe, feminist and queer artist Frida Retz reinterprets glory holes with reference to the arcade game whac-amole, but instead of moles, it’s butts being spanked. Journalist and editor Polina Bachlakova is, just like Retz, part of Bedside Productions. Listen along, as they discuss using art to nuance what pornography can look like and create a more ethical porn production.

Venue: Pride Art, Nytorv

17.00-17.45

SEXUAL EDUCATION FOR ADULTS

Frederikke Kjerulff Madsen is a MD and sex educator. She opens up a conversation about sexuality, communication, safe sex and consent. Is safe sex more than condoms and how do you actually talk about boundaries? Talking about sex with their partners is hard for most people. How do you learn more about your own and other people’s boundaries? Come and learn more about sex, sexuality and consent.

Venue: Debatteltet

17.00-17.45

HOW TO BE A SUPPORTIVE COLLEAGUE?

This talk will explore the pivotal role each of us plays in transforming our workplace into an inclusive and supportive environment for our LGBTI+ coworkers. Matas will delve into our shared responsibility and the

profound impact it has on fostering a culture that not only embraces diversity but also enhances collaboration, productivity, and overall job satisfaction.

Venue: Mannaz

Participants: Matas

17.00-18.00 BSP

COMING TO TERMS WITH FEMININITY

Trans men and transmasculine individuals will often have a complex relationship with their femininity. It can be hard to navigate social norms, gender norms and embracing all aspects of oneself. Join a conversation with and for trans men/trans masc, about femininity and the journey on coming to terms with it.

Venue: Vartov (Grundtvig)

17.15-17.35

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end or whether you have never tried it before you are most welcome as we welcome this traditional dance from the 1800s to Pride and celebrate it being 50 years since the repeal of the “dance law”.

Venue: The Corner Participants: Pan Dance

18.00-18.45

TO PLAY SPORTS AS QUEER

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BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO

Join us when the world-renowned drag ballet company takes on Pride Square with pointe shoes, tutus, and tiaras in their wigs. The Trocks is a ballet company with a unique approach to the classical ballet repertory that is as playfully parodic as it is formed by a profound love for classical ballet. They have conquered audiences all over the world with their incredible charm that makes everyone laugh whether they are ballet lovers or novices. We will present an excerpt of the full show presented at Folketeatret

16-20 August.

Venue: Pride Week Stage

17.45-18.30

LES LANCIERS

Pan Idræt and Copenhagen Pride invites to dance Les Lancies on Rådhuspladsen. PanDans represented by Niels-Henrik Hartvigsson and Kasper Bang Jensen will guide us safely through quadrilles, chassés, spins, turns, and all other parts so we get through all five dances together. Whether you dance it every week-

Sport is often more than physical activity – it is also about community, contact with one’s own body and mental health. But normative expectations regarding body, gender, and sexuality often lead to barriers and discrimination when we as queers participate in sports. NORM has invited an inspiring panel of people from different separatist sports initiatives to have a conversation about being queer and wanting to play sports together in a safer way.

Venue: Debatteltet Participants: NORM

18.00-19.00 / DOG MEET UP

Woof woof, bark bark! Translation: Are you a dog and would like to make new dog friends? Come and meet other dogs with LGBTI+ owners. We will take a walk in Ørstedsparken. Please note: This is an event for humans and their pets.

Venue: The Community Tent

18.30-19.15

TIN

Originally from Australia and currently blazing his way through the UK, TIN is inspired by the boy bands and girl groups of the noughties. TIN loves to create pop music that gives you all the feels, and his lyrics are often about his misadventures as an out-

TUESDAY 15 AUGUST

landish queer creative just wanting to inspire and move people.

Venue: Pride Week Stage

19.00-20.00

#HATEHURTS

What does hate do to queer people, and how do we stop it? We are having a conversation with queer people that experience hate in their daily life and experts who are researching the subject and know what can be done to secure queer people’s rights.

Venue: Debatteltet

Participants: Amnesty International Danmark og Lev og Lad Leve

19.00-20.30 BSP

SEX, SIGNALLING MOLECULES & SM

Join MD and sex educator, Frederikke Kjerulff Madsen, on a journey into a world of eroticism, pain, and pleasure. The lecture is for everyone regardless of sexual experience or preference. Why are some into spanking and others into cross-

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fit? How can anyone enjoy being slapped? Are you fantasising about spanking? We explore senses, nerves, and hormones. What biological buttons can we push when we explore our bodies and sexuality. Come and get answers to questions you didn’t know you had.

Venue: Vartov (Grundtvig)

19.00-20.45

SEX IN CHAINS

Sex in Chains is one of the so-called ‘Aufklärungsfilme’ about taboo subjects such as STDs, homosexuality, and prostitution. Franz Sommer is sentenced to three years in prison for manslaughter when he kills a man who has made a pass at his wife. As he begins to serve his sentence, his wife begins to seek greener pastures. So does he but while his wife is having an affair with her boss, Franz is attracted to one of his cellmates. The film is a silent film with German intertitles and screened in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Dänemark. 107 min., 1928, Germany. Language: Silent film with German intertitles

Venue: Grand Teatret

Tickets: 75/100 DKK (with/without Copenhagen Pride support wristband)

No step free access

19.30-20.15

PHTALO

Allow yourself to be captivated by the unexpected as Phtalo guests

Copenhagen Pride Week with the distinctive sonic exploration and experimental approach to music that characterises their work. Just like their gender-nonconforming identity,

Phtalo’s tracks are quick to take on new shapes while keeping the core intact. Styles such as IDM, Chicago house, new wave, and ambient as well as carefully selected elements of synth and glitch are all present in Phtalo’s music, allowing musical magic to emerge from the meeting of opposites. During their 20 year long career they have played in most of the world and today you have the chance to experience them right in the middle of Pride Square.

Venue: Pride Week Stage

20.15-21.00

UKØN X PRIDE - QUEER WORDS

UKØN is a platform for queer stage art. We wish to create a safe environment to explore identity and norms through words, music, and performance. Tonight, we will present both experienced performers as well as debutants who will share their newly written poetry with us! Through 11-13 August, UKØN will host a workshop where we will work with creating texts and practise performing. The workshop leads up to the show at this Pride event! Check out our Facebook page ‘UKØN’ for more info.

Venue: The Corner

20.30-21.30

RAINBOW PUB QUIZ X PRIDE

Are you a human encyclopaedia or are your friends? Do you excel in fabulously unimportant knowledge and are you always able to remember the name of that one, you know, from that thing? Then we offer you an hour of entertainment tailored for you! We quiz in everything culture, arts, and all things related. We quiz in English, in teams of 2-5 people. Come and join us!

Venue: Debatteltet

21.00-21.45

O/RIOH

O/RIOH is a queer producer and artist from the North Jutland region whose music cannot be defined by genre labels. It is defined by energies – of

euphoria, anger, happiness, and change, which is why O/RIOH is inspired by everyone from pop guru Justin Bieber to feminist punk rapper Peaches. With hard electronic beats, vocals distorted by autotune, and lyrics about sex, money, exhaustion, and everything in between, O/RIOH

makes music to make people move.

Venue: Pride Week Stage

21.00-22.45

SUMMER OF 85

A passionate drama wrapped in a nostalgic breeze from the coast of Normandy. The shipwrecked Alexis is heroically rescued by the slightly older David. Alexis has met his soulmate, but will the dream last longer than

one summer, the summer of 85? This work by François Ozon evokes associations to ‘Call Me By Your Name’ and shows the French auteur from a vantage point. Language: French with Danish subtitles

Venue: Grand Teatret

No step free access

WEDNESDAY 16 AUGUST

12.00-24.00

BOARD GAMES AND FUN

Come and play board games all day long with other likeminded people at Bastard Café all day.

Venue: Bastard Café, Huset-KBH

13.00-13.45

MINISTER FOR EQUALITY IN DEBATE

Minister for Equality Marie Bjerre in a debate about her efforts and visions on the LGBTI+ area. Head of Secretariat at LGBT+ Denmark, Susanne Branner, will interview her and there will be time for questions from the audience.

Venue: Debatteltet

Participants: LGBT+ Denmark

14.00-14.45

PATERNALISM AND BELIEF IN AUTHORITY

In 2022, the government removed the I for intersex from the acronym, both in the new action plan and in all other policy contexts. What does it mean for a minority who daily fights invisibility, pathologization, and paternalism, and is it possible to fight

violations of our human rights when the politicians who should ensure recognition of our rights instead actively contribute to our invisibilization, have blind faith in those who commit these violations and thereby implicitly sanction them?

Venue: Debatteltet Participants: Intersex Denmark

14.00-14.45

CREATING A FAMILY AS A LGBTI+ PERSON

What does it actually take to create a family as a LGBTI+ person? Which considerations does one need to have/do? before starting the process? The counselling in LGBT+ Denmark and the Rainbow Family Network will host a conversation based on some of the dilemmas, challenges and questions related to family creation that LGBTI+ persons can have.

Venue: Mannaz

Participants: LGBT+ Denmark

14.00-15.00

THE BIG SEX QUIZ! Do you know every-

thing there is to know about sex? And do you want to brag about your knowledge? Perhaps you don’t know everything, but want to learn more? Well, then the Big Sex Quiz is just for you! And it is not just fun and games – hopefully you will learn something new about your own sexual health. Oh, and also there are amazing prizes to win!

Venue: The Community Tent Participants: The AIDS Foundation

14.30-15.30

HOW DO WE MAKE THE NIGHTLIFE SAFER?

Gender- and sexuality-minoritised people are more vulnerable in nightlife and more often victims of harassment and assault. This is found in the report “Discrimination and inappropriate behaviour in the Copenhagen nightlife”, and it will be the basis for this conversation among nightlife users, stakeholders and citizen representatives on how to ensure a safer nightlife and a party culture that is both inclusive and diverse.

Venue: Pride Week Stage

15.00-15.45

LGBTI+ RIGHTS AND DIPLOMACY

A panel discussion with representatives of the United States and other foreign countries in Denmark on how countries use diplomacy to protect and promote LGBTI+ rights abroad.

Venue: Debatteltet

Participants: US Embassy

15.00-15.45

HOMOPHOBIA IN THE CHURCH

Discrimination of LGBTI+ persons sadly exists in the Danish State Church and other denominations. Some experience the Church as a heteronormative and toxic place that stops them from living authentically. It can lead to long-term self-denial, guilt, and shame. Some go through conversation therapy and harsh requirements, while others leave their church and faith. But how do we find a way forward and experience a healthier Christian spirituality, where we can live as integrated human beings?

Venue: Mannaz

Participants: Interchurch working group

16.00-16.30

DJ DIANA DIAMOND

Diana Diamond is a Danish drag queen known for winning the first season of Absalon’s Drag Race and performing everywhere from Comedy Zoo, Pumpehuset and Reffen. She received a lot of attention when she

organised a children’s drag show at Frederiksberg Library in the spring. It made headlines in all the country’s media and resulted in a demonstration that was met by an even bigger counter-demonstration that gathered an entire community. She is also part of the team at Das Disco, where she performs and DJs on weekends. She is also known from the trio “The Cocktail Destroyers” and the DR1 programme “Matched on the Milky Way”.

Venue: Pride Week Stage

16.00-16.45

chat about creating a family as a LGBTI+ person. LGBT+ Denmark’s Counselling will in collaboration with LGBT+ Denmark’s Rainbow Family Network host an open counselling event. You’ll be able to meet other queer parents as well as ask our legal counsellors questions about some of the topics that LGBTI+ people encounter when creating a family.

Venue: The Community Tent

Participants: LGBT+ Denmark’s Counselling Service

16.30-17.15

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ASSOCIATIONS FOR LGBTI+ YOUTH?

The Danish associations are a place where many children and young people spend a great deal of their childhood and youth, and where they create strong relationships. Is there space for differences and inclusion towards LGBTI+ youth in the Danish associations? Meet a panel of representatives for children and youth associations and hear their reflections on what they do to create a more open and inclusive community in their respective associations.

Venue: Debatteltet

16.00-16.45

LGBTI+ SHELTERS

In 2022, two LGBTI+ shelters opened in Denmark. The shelter Red+ is for young, ethnic minority LGBTI+ persons in honour-related conflicts, and Tårnbyhus is for adult LGBTI+ persons in Denmark. In a conversation with the managers of the two shelters, we will learn more about why there is a need for specific LGBTI+ shelters and learn about the everyday life in the shelters.

Venue: Mannaz

Participants: Sabaah

16.00-18.00

OPEN COUNSELLING: LGBTI+ PARENTING

Stop by the Community Tent for a

LIVE AND LET LIVE - THE PRIDE PARADE IS STILL A PROTEST DEMONSTRATION

Hundreds of thousands of people participate in and watch the Pride parade every year. We dance and smile together. But has our collective memory forgotten that the parade is a protest demonstration in defence of queer rights and against discrimination and hate? Live and Let Live, together with activists and experts, will give advice on how to ensure more political activism in the parade and remember that the parade is a demonstration and not just a public celebration.

Venue: The Corner

16.30-17.30 BSP

INVISIBLE DISABILITIES AND QUEER

Join us for a conversation about body and sexuality with other LGBTI+ people with invisible physical disabilities and chronic illnesses. We talk about how to relate to body positivity, gender, health care, and barriers as rainbow people with physical disabilities. This is a BSP event and a safer space, where all LGBTI+ people with physical disabilities and chronic illness are welcome to participate. The venue has a lift and is easily accessible. More info about the location on Facebook.

Venue: Vartov (Grundtvig)

17.00-18.30

PERFORMANCE: RIKKE BOGETOFT

Under a moonless sky, queer feminist artist Rikke Bogetoft invites you to a collective new moon ritual. Ceremony for Selene is an audience-engaging performance that treats the queer body as a transformative agent - as goddess, as witch, as catalyst, as rebel and as activist. The ceremony invites the audience into a process of rebirth, where unnecessary genes are cut away and new powers grow in step with the rise of the moon. Together we transform, and rise again as a collective.

Venue: Pride Art, Nytorv

17.00-17.45

REPRESSION IN UGANDA: IMPLICATIONS

Uganda already criminalised homosexuality but the new bill that the Parliament passed imposes not only death penalty for ‘aggrevated homosexuality’ but also criminalises anything interpreted as promotion, recruiting or funding of lgbt activities. Come together to hear Dr Stella Nyanzi, a renowned Ugandan human and queer rights advocate, and Noah Mirembe Gabigogo, a trans man and activist, discuss the law and the political implications in Uganda and beyond. What can happen? And what can we do?

Venue: Debatteltet

Participants: Action Aid Denmark

17.00-17.45

SEX ON DRUGS: NEW HEALTH CRISIS?

Sex on drugs in the LGBTI+ scene is on the rise, and the combination is felt in the nightlife scene as well as in the AIDS Foundation’s counselling rooms, which help people who have sex on drugs. The rise also means a rise in STIs, sexual assaults and overdoses –but often, the people involved are not cared for and help and resources are desperately needed. The AIDS Foundation invites you to an open debate about the looming crisis and will

debate best practices to combat the problems surrounding sex on drugs.

Venue: Mannaz

Participants: The AIDS Foundation

17.00-18.00

JK ROWLING’S TRANSPHOBIC DEVELOPMENT

Live-recording of a bonus-episode of the podcast “Why we were never accepted into the school for magic”, which talks about the development of JK Rowling’s transphobia. The crowdfunded mini series is produced by Ivy-Oak Beck Charlton and they will invite relevant guests to come and talk about why you cannot separate the work from the authorespecially not when the author uses their giant platform to spread hate against minority persons. And about how one can be norm critical towards books and other forms of art.

Venue: Huset-KBH (Xenon)

Participants: Ivy-Oak Bech Charlton (@TankerOmKon)

17.00-18.00

QUEERBAITING IN POPULAR CULTURE

You might have heard of the term ‘queer baiting’, but what does it actually mean? When is it queer baiting, and what does it look like? Is queer baiting only concerning fictional characters, and what with the queer stories from countries where queer representation is illegal? Do you also find the “they’re just really good friends” to be yesterday, then join us and learn about the concept in all its diversity from k-pop to sci-fi, literature and tv shows.

Venue: Huset-KBH (Musikcaféen)

17.00-20.00 /

TABLE TOP ROLE PLAY SESSION

Have you ever wanted to be a magical Wizard Half-orc, a singing Bard Tiefling or a sword-wielding Lesbian? Whether you have travelled the lands of Table-Top RPG for years, or the closest you have been to Dungeons & Dragons is Stranger Things, you are

all welcome to come and adventure on the tables of Pridecon with other LGBTI+ players. Anyone can join in –whether you will commit for all three hours or just want to try a short 30 minute session. See Facebook for sign up details for the 3-hour oneshot.

Venue: Huset-KBH (Stardust)

17.30-18.00

TYRANNOSAURUS REGS

Have you ever dreamed of what it would be like to be a mermaid who found Prince Charming and turned into a human? Then you’ve come to the wrong place! Tyrannosaurus Regs gives the narrative and the beautiful Disney princess an overhaul, drowning the norms of both beauty and happiness in this combined performance and talk. Are you ready to embrace a new idea of what a mermaid could be?

Venue: The Corner

18.00-19.00

THE DRAG SCHOOL’S DRAG SHOW

Experience a drag show with the stars of tomorrow. The Drag School takes the stage and with Mizz Privileze at the wheel, you can experience a lot of youthful takes on what drag performances can be. The students are between 12 and 30 years old and have spent the last year training in performance, make-up, and much more at the Drag School. It all culminates when they kick it up a notch at Pride Square and show why drag is awesome and for everyone.

Venue: Pride Week Stage

18.00-18.45

QUEER SOUNDS AND SILENCES

We often hear that the LGBTI+ movement needs to be loud and visible. Being silent is a sign of being repressed and shamed. But how do members of the LGBTI+ community experience their voices, their sounds - and

their silences? Events like the GLSEN Day of Silence, queer meditation retreats, and prayer spaces show that silence(s) can be a powerful tool of disruption and resistance, too. At the event, we invite the audience to discover and experiment with new sounds, new voices, new silences.

Venue: Debatteltet

Participants: Copenhagen Business School

18.00-19.00

FRIENDSHIP DATING

Are you looking for new acquaintances and possible new friends within the LGBTI+ community? Then come to the Community Tent when we yet again host “Friendship Dating”. Here we facilitate different conversations so that you will get the opportunity to talk to others and potentially expand your network. Who knows, perhaps you will meet some people that you can see yourself in or that can expand your horisont? Please participate with an open and curious mind. Everyone’s welcome, no sign up necessary.

Venue: The Community Tent

18.30-19.30

COSTUMES, GENDER AND CREATIVITY

Drag, cosplay and queerlesque, all three are creative and someway or another imitates and experiments with our perception of gender. But what does it mean for the person performing to be a different character or persona for a few hours? How can the costumes and the character make one better understand oneself? And how can one use gender creativity in everyday life? In this panel, we

look at the commonalities and differences between the genres.

Venue: Huset-KBH (Musikcaféen)

19.00-19.30

VOGUING CLASS WITH THE DANISH BALLROOM COMMUNITY

Hand performance, cat walks, duck walks, floor performance, dips & spins! Have you always wanted to learn how to vogue on a runway? Or maybe try your hand at doing a death drop? Come to the Voguing Class and experience wonderful performers from the Danish Ballroom scene as they take over Pride Square with the historic dance. Join the dance and start a party as we honour the voguing culture and the history behind it.

Venue: Pride Week Stage

19.00-20.00

IRAN’S LGBTI+ STRUGGLE

This panel discussion sheds light on the situation faced by the LGBTI+ community in Iran, a country where LGBTI+ individuals encounter significant legal and societal challenges. Drawing upon the recent history of the Iranian revolution, the panel explores how this struggle for equal rights can serve as a catalyst for change in neighbouring countries. The panellists will examine how the fight for equal rights in Iran has sparked conversations and mobilisation within neighbouring countries.

Venue: Debatteltet

19.00-20.30 BSP

KINKS 2.0

Come to a workshop with other LGBTI+ people. You can get new inspiration and learn more about how kinks stimulate the body and how you can experiment with kinks. At the workshop we will look at the taboos when we talk about kinks, where you can explore them and take a dive into the kinky world. The workshop is aimed at those who have a little experience

already.

Venue: Vartov (Grundtvig)

19.00-20.20

DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS + EDMUNDO

Considered to be one of the first pro-homosexual films in the history of cinema, Different from the Others is about a homosexual concert pianist named Körner, who is blackmailed by the corrupt Bollek. In the process, Körner’s budding relationship with a young music student is ruined, and when he goes to the authorities, both he and Bollek are hit by the then-current Section 175, which criminalised homosexuality. The film is screened in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Dänemark. The short film, Edmundo, depicts the young Edmundo, who is forced to return to his parents’ home in the city he left to study and discover new realities. Here, he reconnects with childhood friends, rekindling a series of untold truths, facing him with unresolved feelings and the fear of being trapped in a universe where he feels unhappy. More information in the app and on Facebook.

Venue: Grand Teatret

Tickets: 75/100 DKK (with/without Copenhagen Pride support wristband) No step free access

19.45-20.15

BARBRO

Listening to Barbro can feel a lot like being whispered a secret. Since her debut single ‘I’m fine’ in 2021, Barbro has released a string of corrosively honest compositions that have earned them rave reviews and even both the Carl Award and a Steppe Wolf as “Hope of the Year”. Barbro’s songs convey a social engagement in their vulnerability, and with their band, the indie equilibrist cultivates an organic sound where strings and voice almost seem to breathe together.

Venue: Pride Week Stage

20.00-21.00

INTERACTIVE CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE

Author and illustrator Christina Ebbesen will host a CYOA (choose your own adventure), where it is the audience that decides the outcomes and directions of the story. It will be a night of drawing, exploration and having a good time. Swing by Xenon and find out where you all together take the story.

Venue: Huset-KBH (Xenon)

20.00-21.00

WOMEN IN ARMOUR

In this talk, we delve into female knights, women wielding swords, and their remarkable contributions to history, mythology, and popular culture. Breaking free from gender and societal norms, these women defied expectations and emerged as powerful forces in society. Amanda Solveig Kruse will take us on a queer filled journey through time, exploring stories of legendary female warriors. You will get the chance to try on plate armour and immerse yourself in the world of these courageous women.

Venue: Huset-KBH (Musikcaféen)

20.00-22.00 /

BRING YOUR OWN GAMING DEVICE

We are hosting a low key gaming session. Bring your own device, whether it be Gameboy, PSP, Switch, laptop, or tablet and get together

with other gamers. We have the Wifi connection (with limited speed) and seats. Don’t bring your biggest gaming set-up due to limited space. Come alone or bring friends and join us for a fun and cosy night.

Venue: Huset-KBH (Stardust)

20.30-21.00

NAO MALI

In Nao Mali’s universe, people of all genders and races come together in a non-stop, non-binary orgy of self-expression. ”Gender fucking / I create my own niche,” Nao raps on Pretty/Ugly, the first single off their upcoming sophomore EP SCANDAL. The track is a celebration of the weirdness and imperfections that make us human.

Venue: Pride Week Stage

20.30-21.30

PRIDE SING-A-LONG

We will kick off Wednesday night with a sing-a-long as we have done a couple of times. This year the theme will be Pride bangers! It is up to all of you to fill the tent with song. As always, the goal is to sing loudly, not pretty. Come, dance, sing, and enjoy these wonderful songs we know from Prides throughout the years.

Venue: Debatteltet

21.00-23.05

THE BLUE CAFTAN

In the medina of the Moroccan city of Salé, we meet the married couple Halim and Mina. They run a traditional caftan store along with the young apprentice, Youssef, who shares the same passion for sewing as his master, Halim. The couple’s relationship faces challenges when Halim slowly begins to take more than just a professional interest in his young protégé. The Blue Caftan is an understated, gently portrayed love story full of warmth and empathy, captured in the most beautiful, sensual images. 118 min., 2022, France.

Language: Arabic with Danish subtitles

Venue: Grand Teatret

Tickets: 75/100 DKK (with/without Copenhagen Pride support wristband) No step free access

21.15-22.00

BALLAD NIGHT - DJ ELIJAH KASHMIR

We conclude Wednesday of Pride Week with an evening filled with all the great Pride ballads we can all sing along to. We can’t wait to belt out the classic ballads from the likes of Whitney Houston, Lady Gaga, Cher and maybe even some new ones...

PADAM PADAM!

Venue: Pride Week Stage

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12.00-24.00

BOARD GAMES AND FUN

Come and play board games all day long with other likeminded people at Bastard Café all day.

Venue: Bastard Café, Huset-KBH

13.00-15.30

BADGE AND SIGNAGE WORKSHOP WITH AURA KBH

AURA would like to invite you to a cosy

badge and signage workshop with the purpose of getting super ready for the Pride parade on Saturday! Find us in the Community Tent, where our wonderful AURA volunteers will be ready and excited. We can’t wait to see you!

Organiser: AURA KBH

Venue: The Community Tent

14.00-14.45

GENDER AND AUTISM

Many who meet young people on the autism spectrum find that gender identity is a topic of importance. Studies show that 15% of autistic people define themselves as transgender or non-binary. LGBT+ Denmark offers an insight in the overlap between autism and gender identity. Based on the latest research in the field, we will touch on the prevailing

theories about the connection between autism and gender identity.

Venue: Debatteltet

Participants: LGBT+ Denmark

14.00-14.45 (on request)

DIVERSE COMMUNITIES FOR THE YOUTH

Community and a sense of belonging is an important part of quality of life. This is especially true for children and adolescents who challenge the norms of gender. Fortunately, we see a wide and growing interest from the young and their surroundings in creating spaces of diversity. How do we include everyone? A conversation about inclusion, community, and being yourself in the company of others.

Venue: Hovedkassen at City Hall

Participants: The Association in Support of Transgender Children

15.00-15.45

INUIT AND 2SLGBTI+ RIGHTS

How is it to be Inuk and 2SLGBTI+ in Nunarput/Inuit Nunaat and in Denmark? We will talk about the Inuit perspective on gender, sexuality, and identity. How do we work with indigenous peoples’ rights, decolonisation and Denmark’s role in the colonisation of Inuit Nunaat? We invite you to join a conversation about this and about the relation to Denmark, 2SLGBT-history, and the Inuit language as well as differences in indigenous peoples’ words regarding 2SLGBTI+, which are different from Western ones.

Venue: Debatteltet

15.00-15.45 (on request)

HIV/AIDS IN THE NORDIC COUNTRIES

This session shares the latest research on the impact of HIV/AIDS in the Nordic countries, recently published in a special issue of “Women, Gender and Research”, the only academic journal in Denmark dedicated to gender studies. Seeking to engage with the queer community and widen the awareness of our research beyond academia, a panel consisting of the issue’s authors and editors will present their work and facilitate a discussion about it with the audience.

Venue: Hovedkassen at City Hall Participants: Center for Gender, Sexuality and Difference, University of Copenhagen

16.00-16.45

LGBTI+ UNDER ATTACK IN GHANA AND UGANDA

In several countries in Africa, LGBTI+ people are currently under attack. Uganda just passed a new anti-LGBTI+ law that even includes the death penalty. The Parliament in Ghana is also discussing harsher anti-LGBTI+ legislation. What are the concrete consequences for people in these countries and what can be done to support them, or at least to avoid causing more harm? We’ll discuss this with LGBT+ Rights Ghana and representatives for Danish NGOs, investors, and churches.

Venue: Debatteltet Participants: LGBT Asylum

16.00-16.45 (on request)

DIDN’T YOU USED TO BE…?

Finding a label for oneself is often a liberating feeling. Yet some people may in time find other labels which suit them better. In the queer community, the narrative that finding one’s identity is a singular and permanent enlightenment is prevalent. As such, people who find other labels to describe themselves later in life may experience backlash. How does transitioning from one label to another feel? What reactions does this

create? This and more in this panel of label changers. Language: Danish Venue: Hovedkassen at City Hall Participants: Asexual Association Denmark

16.00-18.00

EXPERIENCES FROM MY INTERSEX LIFE

How do you navigate in a world where everything is divided into male and female if you are intersex? We take you through stories from a life as an intersex person to a place where primary school teachings about biological sex no longer make sense, and where choosing the right locker room suddenly isn’t so straightforward, and where one’s mere existence is often questioned. Does that mean it’s difficult to be intersex? Or does the difficulty lie in society not knowing we exist?

Venue: The Community Tent Participants: Intersex Denmark

16.15-16.45

SPRING & I

Experience the amazing duo Spring & I on Show Stage. The electronic producer duo have just released their first full-length album, which really cements how Spring & I balance the heaviness of club music with thoughtful themes. Drawing inspiration from the dry and raw sound of UK garage rock, they still manage to create a heartfelt universe that the listener is invited into.

Venue: Show Stage

16.45-18.00 / PRIDE RUN 2023

The Pride Run this year has 4 routes. Either walk (3 km) or run (5/7/9 km). Wear your favourite rainbow colours and let’s send rainbows through Copenhagen. Registration is required. More info in the app and on Facebook.

Location: Pride Square

Organiser: Frontrunners

17.00-17.15

MYSTICAL ALLIANCE CIRCUS PERFORMANCE

Mystical Alliance is a collaboration between two performing artists emerging from contemporary circus. With their outstanding physical skill and unique artistic expression, they create a dramatic visual spectacle that brings new perspectives on the potential of our human body. Mystical Alliance features contortionist Ylva Maia, who will both shock, amaze, and seduce you all at once. Michiel Tange van Leeuwen is the other half of Mystical Alliance, and with his tall, extravagant appearance he is owning the stage without question. In a large metal frame, suspended from the ceiling, their bodies meet and spiral around each other, while exploring new ways to co-exist.

Venue: Show Stage

17.00-18.00

ARTIST TALK: CARL-JOHAN PAULSEN & MIKKEL KARL KRISTENSEN

Textile and performance artist

Carl-Johan Paulsen, a.k.a Leo Patra, studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and is part of the drag house

The House Of Hopelezz in Amsterdam. Their artistic practice revolves around themes of queerness in mythologies, non-binary identities, and the public display of sexuality. In conversation with art historian Mikkel Karl Kristensen, the potential of queer art to create utopias and shape realities from which new futures can emerge, will be explored.

Venue: Pride Art, Nytorv

17.00-17.45

SPACES FOR ALL LGBTI+ PEOPLE?

If you carry more than one minority identity, you can easily be overlooked and feel

alienated in the LGBTI+ community.

That’s why over the years, many double minorities have organised themselves into communities where there is room for diversity beyond the rainbow. In this conversation, we will invite representatives from these communities and activists who have worked with double minoritisation to talk about how we can create more space in LGBTI+ environments and at LGBTI+ events.

Venue: Debatteltet

Participants: Sabaah

17.00-17.45 (on request)

EXPECTATIONS OF MY BODY VOL. 3

In this new event series, we will explore “expectations to my body” within different themes or groupings. This time we have gathered a panel to talk about external expectations to bodies as well as internalised expectations to oneself in order to be attractive in the “lesbian community”.

Venue: Hovedkassen at City Hall

17.00-18.00

FANFICTION AND COMMUNITY

Fanfiction goes all the way back to the days where everything was printed on paper and where representation was very limited, so that you had to get started yourself if you wanted to explore the romantic relationship between Spock and Kirk. Today, fanfiction is an enormous community, and LGBT+ people have the possibility to play with and break the normative framework that still exists in mainstream media. We have gathered a panel that will enlighten us on fanfiction in a queer setting and that will get us all hooked on it!

Venue: Huset-KBH (Musikcaféen)

17.00-20.00 / MAGIC MEETUP

For everyone who wants to play the card game “Magic the Gathering” we will have a meetup for a few hours. We will provide some begin-

ner decks and a couple of assisting helpers so you can get started if you are completely new. If you are more advanced, then bring your own deck and meet new people who share the same passion for black magic and counterspells as yourself.

Venue: Huset-KBH (Stardust)

17.45-18.00

HOST SPEECH – CHARLIE MAC ANGEL

Come and hear Charlie as she delivers this year’s Youth Pride speech.

Venue: Show Stage

18.00-18.45

UNVEILING EUROPE’S BALLROOM CULTURE

This captivating panel discussion aims to shine a spotlight on Europe’s vibrant ballroom culture, exploring its significance as a unique and influential community that celebrates diversity, creativity, and empowerment. Drawing inspiration from the iconic ballroom scenes in New York City, the panel will delve into how this underground subculture has taken root and evolved across various European cities.The panel will celebrate the resilience, creativity, and tenacity of the Ballroom community.

Venue: Debatteltet

18.00-19.00

COMEDY QUEENS AT PRIDE SQUARE

Four of the country’s funniest drag queens unleash their wits and beauty for a comedy show that’s not like the others. A bit more wigs and queerness - a little less white t-shirt and jokes about the straight life. The stage is set for a blast of glitter, stand-up, improv and lipsyncs when Annie Rection (Dragcentralen podcast), Mizz Privileze (Danmark’s Got Talent), Diana Diamond (Absalon’s Drag Race winner) and Britney Corvette (Absalon’s Drag Race winner) entertain at Pride Square for a full hour. Never been to a

drag show before? Then it’s about damn time, honey! Come and get a good laugh and a Thursday you’ll never forget.

Venue: Show Stage

18.00-19.00

COSPLAY CATWALK: YOUTH

Cosplay catwalk for people under 18 years old. The first half of PrideCon’s cosplay evening focuses on the youth. There will be judges and the following categories: Best Lookalike, Best Craft, and Best Over All, but we have the space for exactly what you want to cosplay. If you do not want to do the catwalk, then come as an audience and get inspired.

Venue: Huset-KBH (Xenon)

18.00-19.00 / POKEMON GO MEETUP

The plan is simple. Show up at the courtyard of Huset with your phone at 18.00 and meet with other Pokemon Go players. Together you can take a walk and catch rare and common Pokemon alike, battle or simply boast with your giant collection of Pokemon. Find the other players under the Pikachu.

Venue: Bastard Café, Huset-KBH

18.30-19.30

NORMBREAKING ROLE PLAY

Live action role play, pen and paper role play, role play with figures… Role

by Søren Drastrup

play comes in many forms, but common for all are that they break with the set of rules we call norms. How is role play inclusive as a community –and in the game itself? What spaces does it create when you get to define the framework? We have gathered a panel that will discuss the many facets of role play and who will show us everything it can be.

Venue: Huset-KBH

19.00-20.00

ORGANISING PRIDE IN HOSTILE PLACES

In many parts of the world, being LGBTI+ is met with legal restrictions, discrimination, and even violence. This panel will bring together courageous activists and organisers who have defied the odds and arranged Pride events in hostile environments. They will share their experiences and insights gained from navigating legal constraints, social hostility, and potential risks to ensure that LGBTI+ individuals have a safe space to celebrate their identities and advocate for their rights.

Venue: Debatteltet

19.00-22.00 / SHISHA LOUNGE AND QUIZ

Sabaah, the association for racialised LGBTI+ individuals will be hosting the community tent with shisha and chill hangout. The space is primarily for Sabaah’s users and target audience, as it will be a moment during Copenhagen Pride where racialised people can gather and hang out. However, anyone is welcome to stop by and chill!

Venue: The Community Tent Participants: Sabaah

19.15-19.45

NIMĀ

NIMĀ is a Danish/Iranian artist with strong roots from Iran, and writes songs for and about relationships he has collided with

over time. He is drawn to the exact moment when two energies collide in a way that can be felt deep within the soul. He is not afraid to feel and express himself, and his lyrics are therefore characterised by very explicit and naked feelings about love, loss and desire. NIMĀ, a gospel choir, and full band play the Show Stage, and it will undoubtedly be worth experiencing!

Venue: Show Stage

20.00-20.30

JULIE PAVON

It’s impossible to stand still when the up-and-coming house-pop talent fires up during her raw and high-energy live show. Julie Pavon is a whirlwind of a live experience, where she tears the audience around with her raw pumping productions, eye-catching stage outfits and ongoing energy. It’s dark club pop that hits the midriff and dancing feet. It will be a blast of a party!

Venue: Show Stage

20.00-21.00

COSPLAY CATWALK 18+

As the last half of the PrideCon cosplay evening we have the cosplay catwalk for people 18 years and up. The judges will assess the contestants in the following categories: Best Craft, Best Prop, and Best Over All, but do not let this limit your creativity! All levels are welcome, no matter whether you mastered your craft over the years or have just started out, so come and join our catwalk. Do you feel more like experiencing it as an audience member, then please swing by and cheer! Look at the Facebook event for info on signing up for the catwalk.

Venue: Huset-KBH (Xenon)

20.00-22.00

HOW TO WRITE AN INCLUSIVE CAMPAIGN

To create a role playing campaign

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that is inclusive and encompasses the players’ characters can be challenging. Author Salina Larsen talks about these challenges in a workshop, where we discuss and look into what player inclusion is, how the inclusion of characters work, and how you can quickly create a campaign that opens up for amazing opportunities. After the workshop the participants will have the framework to create their own mini-campaign including tools to approach the game with an inclusive mindset.

Venue: Huset-KBH (Stardust)

20.30-22.00

SILENT DISCO X PRIDE

The Rainbow Square will be transformed into your dance floor for an evening with Silent Disco. This dance floor has the advantage of 3 separate soundtracks that you can switch between just as it suits you. It is the perfect solution for you who love to dance with your friends but can never agree on the playlist. It is free to join.

Venue: Debatteltet

21.00-21.45

RAVI KUMA

The last concert on Thursday is the amazing Ravi Kuma, a hard-hitting electronic rap duo consisting of rapper Sharon Kumaraswamy and producer Aske Knudsen. It’s going to be a blast you won’t want to miss!

Venue: Show Stage

22.00-22.45

TECHNO NIGHT WITH BAZOOKA

BABE AND DJ

The last show of Thursday is all about techno when drag performer Bazooka Babe with a DJ and dancers take the stage. Expect high energy, wet bodies, partying and emotion, scantily clad dancers and pole dancing. It’s going to be a blast to end this year’s Pride Youth days, and it’s going to be a party to remember! What’s not to like?

Venue: Show Stage

13.00-14.30 /

PARADE ROUTE WALK-THROUGH

A walk down the Parade route for people with neurodivergent conditions and anyone who wants to familiarise themselves with the route beforehand. Ends at Pride Square. Location: Meet in front of Frederiksberg Rådhus. Note that the route will take place on pavement with kerbs.

17.00-17.30

PERFORMANCE: NICOLAI RISBJERG

The performance You Can Call Me Naïve, But I Still Believe In Romance explores love declarations and the effect of gifts on individuals. It’s wonderful to receive a gift, a loving attention, or a love letter, but does

the action and love lose value if all neighbours receive the same love declarations?

Venue: Pride Art, Nytorv

19.00-23.40

COPENHAGEN PRIDE DRAG NIGHT

Our Drag Night is one of the biggest drag shows in the world, and this year is no exception! The show is hosted by Megan Moore and features: Danica Dimefox, Evita Kedavra, Faux Moe, Ava, Jezebelle May Daniels, Philipina, Annie Rection, Foxxy Femme, Anna LIngus-Wintour, Kacey Jayne, Karli Kuff, Diana Diamond, Di Di Cancerella, Britney Corvette, Mizz Privileze, and The Liberty Dance Crew. We’ve also invited special guest Hoedy Saad:

a 28 year old Lebanese Drag artist, Voguing dancer and choreographer. Hoedy started voguing in 2013 and introduced the house ballroom scene to Beirut in 2017 by organising the first ever Ball in the Middle East.

Venue: Show Stage

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16.00-18.30

FAMILY PICNIC IN RÅDHUSHAVEN

After the rainbow families have participated in the parade, we invite them to continue the party in a quieter and safer area when the parade hits Rådhuspladsen. Here, we will be open in Rådhushaven and invite you to a non-alcoholic picnic with entertainment for children and their parents. Registration is necessary. The garden is open from 09.00.

Venue: City Hall Garden

13.00-17.00

COPENHAGEN PRIDE PARADE

No Pride without a parade! We take to the streets with both glitter and statements as we celebrate diversity while demanding our equal rights in society. Denmark’s largest LGBTI+ demonstration will move from Frederiksberg to Pride Square - the first Pride parade in the world to switch to 100% electric vehicles.

Venue: Frederiksberg City Hall

14.00-23.45

PRIDE SHOW

We’re rounding off Pride Week with a huge party of a show at Pride Square! The talented Chantal Al-Arab will once again host an evening full of celebration, colour, and amazing performances.

Venue: The Show Stage

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14.00-15.20

DJ SOLEIL

Introducing Soleil Camara, a versatile Swedish artist hailing from Malmö. Blending sound and vision, he creates an unforgettable experience. With a repertoire spanning Future beats, Disco, Funky House, Lounge, and Uk-Garage, Soleil sets the perfect atmosphere for rooftop parties, Pride festivals, and clubs.

Venue: Show Stage

15.20-16.45

DJ SCHAARUP

SCHAARUP is a skilled, energetic, and dedicated DJ from Copenhagen. Her sound and heart are set on genres such as Melodic House, Melodic Techno, Afrohouse, Indie Dance and Techno and she draws inspiration from the sounds and clubs of (underground) Berlin.

Venue: Show Stage

17.30-19.00

QUEER MUSIC AGENCY SHOWCASE

Queer Music Agency is the only music agency in the world to solely represent queer artists. They aim to create more diversity in the music industry, as well as a strong community for queer artists, who are all too often neglected. Hear a showcase from some of the incredible artists represented by QMA: UBLU, Reveal Party, Sander Sanchez, and Asbjørn.

Venue: Show Stage

SUNDAY 20

19.15-21.00

REILEY + BATHSHEBA

Born to remote origins in the Faroe Islands, Reiley made a global impact with an exuberant presence as loud as his traffic-stopping voice and as colourful as his runway-ready aesthetic. The emerging pop sensation has now kicked off 2023 with his Eurovision single “Breaking My Heart” and was named the winner of the Danish Melodi Grand Prix 2023. Danish pop singer-songwriter BATHSHEBA has been called “one to watch in 2021” by both Soundvenue and GAFFA, and was nominated in the category ‘New Danish Artist of the Year’ at The Voice Awards 2020. With her extraordinary talent, she has proven that she has the potential to become one of the biggest pop stars in Denmark.

Venue: Show Stage

21.00-23.45

FIRST HATE + ROBIN SKOUTERIS

First Hate was formed in 2013 by friends Anton Falck and Joakim Wei Bernild. The duo has always endeavoured to defy trends, fusing pop kicks, club poetics, and ephemeral romances into sharp creations of hedonism and heartbreak.Robin Skouteris has a very distinctive mashup style of mixing AUDIO & VIDEO, bringing 80s 90s 2000s and current pop and house tracks together, creating a party full of nostalgia and creativity in a very unique way!

Venue: Show Stage

13.00-14.00

PRIDE AND JAZZ SERVICE

Special jazz service where we will be celebrating Pride and inclusive love. Afterwards we meet for coffee, tea and bubbles.

Location: Eliaskirken, Vesterbros Torv, Vesterbrogade 49

Organiser: Folkekirken for Internationals

14.00-16.00

PRIDE CHURCH SERVICE

Join us in a festive music church service with a live band. After the service we invite you to a reception on the lawn just outside the church. Language: the service will be Danish, but all are welcome.

Location: Sankt Jakobs Kirke, Østerbrogade 59

Organiser: Folkekirken med venner

OTHER EVENTS DURING PRIDE WEEK

Please note that Copenhagen Pride is not organising these events. Any questions or enquiries should be made directly to the organiser.

ALL WEEK

12, 13 and 15 August

13.00-14.10 and 17.00-18.10

18. august

17.00-18.10 and 19.30-20.40

19. august

13.00-14.10 and 17.00-18.10

SHOW BOAT 2023: MERMAIDS IN SIGHT!

Embark on one of Copenhagen Opera Festival’s most creative concepts when the Showboat once again sets sail loaded with opera magic. Language: Danish introduction

Organiser: The Opera Festival

Location: Ved Stranden 10, quay 5

No step free access

12-20. august / 09.00-18.00, Thursday 9.00-21.00

AUDIO TRACK “QUEER IN COPENHAGEN THROUGH 1000 YEARS”

Enter the museum’s permanent exhibition on the first floor and point your smartphone camera at the QR code in your preferred language and you will hear the stories.

Organiser: Københavns Museum, Location: Stormgade 18

12-20. august (All day)

THE WORLD’S LARGEST HOME-KNITTED LGBTI+ FLAG

The flag was made by the organisers behind the knitting festival Pakhusstrik and completed with the help of countless volunteers, and it will mark North Atlantic diversity during Copenhagen Pride 2023.

Organiser: North Atlantic House

Location: Strandgade 91

Note that the exhibition is outside

13 and 20. august

15.00 -16.30

HISTORICAL CITY WALK: QUEER IN COPENHAGEN

Historical city walk about how the city has been affected by sexuality ‘outside the norm’.

Organiser: Københavns Museum

Location: Regnbuepladsen

13 and 20. august / 12.30-13.30 and 14.00-15.00

PRIDE AT THE GLYPTOTEK

Warm up for Copenhagen Pride with a trip to the Glyptotek and view the museum’s sculptures in a new light with our queer interpretation of characters from ancient mythology.

Organiser: Glyptoteket

Location: Dantes Plads 7 No step free access

16 and 18. august

16.30, 18.00 and 19.30

17 August

15.00, 16.30, 18.00 and 19.30

CANAL TOURS - THE BIG ANNIVERSARY SHOW

cAnal Tours is the ultimate guided tour in the water channels of Copenhagen. Our guide in drag Chantal al Arab is ready to give you an experience you’ll never forget. Duration: 1 hour.

Organiser: cAnal TOURS

Location: Ved Stranden 26, kajplads 5 No step free access

17-19. august, 19.30

20. august, 14.00 & 19.30

LES BALLETS TROCKERO DE MONTE CARLO

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo will take on Folketeatret with pointe shoes, tutus, and tiaras in their wigs. An extraordinary experience that is both hilarious and technically impressive. Duration: 1 hour

Organiser: Folketeateret

Location: Nørregade 39

18 August, 20.00-20.45

19-20 August, 16.00-16.45

LOL – LAUGHING OUT LONELY

The lonely, faceless creatures of the internet are given a voice in this newly written solo opera - a big voice!

Organiser: The Opera Festival Location: Basement under the Opera, access via the foyer

12 AUGUST

21.00-02.00

ABSALON’S PRIDE DRAG NIGHT (21+ FOR THE AFTERPARTY)

Copenhagen Pride is underway and it will be celebrated with a big drag show at Absalon, where we celebrate all the wonderful things about being exactly who you are. Annie Rection will be the hostess of the evening!

Organiser: Folkehuset Absalon

Location: Sønder Blvd. 73

10.00-13.00

DRAG BRUNCH AT SCANDIC KØDBYEN

Kick off your Pride Week with a fabulous Drag Brunch at Scandic Hotel Kødbyen. The Drag Stars Mizz Privileze and Diana Diamond will guide you through the morning with humor, lip syncs, and a drag battle. For all ages, but we recommend 13+.

Organiser: Scandic Hotel Kødbyen

Location: Skelbækgade 3A

14.00-15.30

CHILDREN’S CHURCH SERVICE FOR RAINBOW CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES

At the service, we celebrate our diversity as a gift of God in creation. After the Service, we will have some cake.

Location: Sønder Boulevard 120

Organiser: Enghave Kirke

16.00-22.00

ROOFTOP PARTY SERIES: COPENHAGEN PRIDE

Get ready to dance the night away with our live DJ, who will be spinning the hottest tracks to keep the energy high. But that’s not all! We’ve got a surprise waiting for you in our

OTHER EVENTS

Greenhouse - the Rainbow Runway! Get ready to strut your stuff on our magical runway.

Location: Amagerfælledvej 108

Organiser: Zoku No step free access

22.00-03.00

SLM CODE BLACK - THE PRIDE EDITION (18+, MEN ONLY)

Entry until 00.00. Membership required. More info at www.slm-cph.dk, please note that the website contains sexual content.

Location: Lavendelstræde 17C

Organiser: SLM København No step free access

13 AUGUST

16.00-20.00

SLM HOT SUNDAY (18+, MEN ONLY)

Entry until 17.00. Entry until 00.00. Membership required. More info at www.slm-cph.dk, please note that the website contains sexual content.

Location: Lavendelstræde 17C

Organiser: SLM København No step free access

14. AUGUST

19.00-20.40

SUBLIME / 2022

Manuel lives in a small coastal town. He plays bass in a band with his best friends. One of them is Felipe, with whom he shares a strong friendship. Unbreakable bond. Until the time comes to put it to test. Language: Spanish with English subtitles

Organiser: Cinemateket

Location: Gothersgade 55

16. AUGUST

15.00-18.00

SEE THE CLUB (18+, MEN ONLY)

This afternoon you have the opotunity to visit SLM Copenhagen without a membership. Members of the SLM board will be present and ready to show you around.

Location: Lavendelstræde 17C

Organiser: SLM København No step free access

16.00-17.30

DIVERSE CONFLICT MANAGEMENT

Do you want to know more about preventing and solving conflicts? At this workshop you will get the tools to do “Mangfoldig Konflikthåndtering” and it is based on restorative justice principles and practices. See Facebook event for sign up.

Organiser: FH

Location: Nørre Voldgade 12

17.00-18.30

COMMUNITY SINGING IN STEFANSKIRKEN

In the middle of Pride week, Stefanskirken invites everyone to a concert when we organise our popular Community Singalong.

Organiser: Stefanskirken

Location: Nørrebrogade 191

22.00-03.00

PRIDE NAKED NIGHT (18+, MEN ONLY)

Entry until 00.00. Membership required. More info at www.slm-cph.dk, please note that the website contains sexual content.

Sted: Lavendelstræde 17C

Arrangør: SLM København No step free access

14.00-15.30

OPENING EXHIBITION | POSITIVE PORTRAITS

Come to the opening exhibition of AIDS-Fondet’s ‘Positive portraits’ at Copenhagen City Hall. Together we paint a new picture of life with HIV. Visit the exhibition 17-24 August during Copenhagen City Hall opening hours.

Location: Copenhagen City Hall

Organiser: The AIDS Foundation

17.00-18.00

PRIDE AT THE GLYPTOTEK - PETRIFIED IDEALS

Come and help shake up gender and body ideals. Moussa Mchangama, contributor to the project, and Julie Lejsgaard Christensen, classical archaeologist, will explore the body and gender ideals hidden in the Glyptotek’s antique collection.

Organiser: Glyptoteket

Location: Dantes Plads 7 No step free access

17.30-19.30

GENDER AND ASEXUALITY

In this event, we question gender and its relation to sexuality in an open discussion between people who have explored their gender through the lens of asexuality.

Location: LGBT+ Danmark – medborgerhuset, Vestergade 18E 2. sal

Organiser: Asexual Association

Denmark

19.00-20.15

LECTURE: LIMITLESS URGES 1850-1920

Based on the book “The Boundless City of Copenhagen 1850-1920”, curator Jakob Ingemann Parby from the Museum of Copenhagen tells about legislation, practices and conditions for homosexuals in the period.

Organiser: Københavns Museum

Location: Stormgade 18

OTHER EVENTS DURING PRIDE WEEK

20.30 - 22.30

QUEER ICONS MUSIC BINGO

It’s time for another music bingo, and this time it’s all about Queer Icons! There will be plenty of sing-alongs as we swap the numbers with song titles.

Organiser: Folkehuset Absalon

Location: Sønder Blvd. 73

16.00-19.00

THURSDAY BAR AND PRIDE AT THORVALDSENS MUSEUM

We will host a pop-up bar and celebrate Copenhagen Pride with drawing lessons, music, and cool refreshments. At 16.00-17.00, we organise a croquis class in the museum’s lobby, focusing on body positivity and diversity. The drawing class is free but requires registration.

Location: Bertel Thorvaldsens Plads 2

Organiser: Thorvaldsens Museum

No step free access

22.00-03.00

BEARDS, BEARS AND CHASERS (18+, MEN ONLY)

Entry until 00.00. Membership required. More info at www.slm-cph.dk, please note that the website contains sexual content.

Location: Lavdelstræde 17C

Organiser: SLM København

No step free access

18. AUGUST

09.30-13.00

LGBT+ IN THE DANISH LABOUR MARKET

What is the status of LGBT+ equality in Danish workplaces and in the world? What can we as a trade union movement do to improve conditions for LGBT+ people in the labour market? More information on registration in the Copenhagen Pride app.

Location: Kampmannsgade 4

Organiser: 3F

20.00-02.00

MELLEMRUMMET’S PRIDE PARTY

Café Mellerummet presents a lovely evening with good music, good atmosphere, and solidarity. The café is a non-profit café that supports various charitable projects.

Location: Ravnsborggade 11 Organiser: Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke

21.00-03.00

PRIDE BAR AND CRUISING NIGHT (18+, MEN ONLY)

Entry until 01.00. Membership required. More info at www.slm-cph.dk, please note that the website contains sexual content.

Location: Lavendelstræde 17C Organiser: SLM København No step free access

19. AUGUST

12.00-14.00

PRE-PRIDE PARADE WARM-UP AND BUBBLES.

We gather in front of Eliaskirken on Vesterbros Torv in celebration, awaiting the Pride Parade with Bubbles & Music! It’s a FREE event and everyone is welcome!

Location: Vesterbros Torv Organiser: Eliaskirken and Folkekirken for Internationals

16.00-21.30

BLISS AT PRIDE DAYPARTY

Bliss at Pride is a day party celebrating Pride with house and techno. The party is centrally located at the meatpacking district with free entrance. DJs: Phloem, Erik Francis and Aleks BLC.

Location: Motopol, Laplandsgade 6b Organiser: Bliss

21.30-05.00

BLISS AT PRIDE AFTERPARTY (20+)

The Bliss at Pride Afterparty at Råhuset is an afterparty for those hungry for dancing at Pride. The venue will be facilitated to have a boiler room setup around the DJ with dancing space at multiple levels and pumping beats until 5AM. DJs: Carlo & Selma, Cockwhore & Macho, Peachlyfe, Sven Rellek.

Location: Motopol, Laplandsgade 6b Organiser: Bliss

No step free access

22.00-05.00

SLM PRIDE PARTY (18+, MEN ONLY)

Drop by and enjoy the Pride with your friends at the SLM bar Annual Fetish and Pride party! No membership required.

Location: Lavendelstræde 17C Organiser: SLM København No step free access

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