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Exploring The South: Herstory And Day Drinking With Ladies In Film
While rushing looking for bus stop #6 I hoped to find a group of women that, like me, were arriving almost too late. Instead, a sea of confused tourists cramped the narrow sidewalk. As I was close to reaching for my phone…
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Stay Queer: Reykjavík’s Supportive Spaces & Safe Party Places
In a country where the Pride festival is more widely attended than the Independence Day parade, it’s no surprise that there would be some pretty great LGBTQ+ spaces in the capital city. Reykjavík queers are vast and diverse, as is the case worldwide,…
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Why Is Everyone So Angry About That Pink Geyser?
Last week, Marco Evaristti made the geyser Strokkur erupt in pink, and the general population of Iceland went nuts. Even though the food colouring he used had completely evaporated four hours after the offending act, the Chilean artist was subject to a…
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Travelling Queer, There And Everywhere
Iceland’s reputation as a haven for LGBTQIA people is well founded with same-sex marriage legal since 2010 and same-sex adoption since 2012. Fair enough, but what of those travelling into the country? People who won’t be here long enough to enjoy these…
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Walk This Gay
A tremendous amount of care must be taken for an organisation to represent an entire community to international visitors. And a notoriously outspoken community, at that. But the members of Pink Iceland, a travel organisation serving the LGBT community in Iceland, execute…
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Rainbow Reykjavík Event: The Lovers, The Dreamers And Me
Breaking newsflash: Iceland is a really gay-friendly country! Of course we all know this; we have a big ol’ lez of a PM, our occasional drag queen mayor and a Pride Parade that draws in more families than the state church. Not…