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RÁN Waves The Flag: Inside Margrét Rán’s Joyous 2024 Pride anthem
“I really hope the listeners get the feeling of being in the crowded Pride parade, dancing and waving our glorious flag surrounded by colourful people and atmosphere,” Margrét Rán says of “Gleðivíma,” the song she wrote for this year’s Reykjavík Pride. Giddy…
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Fighting For The Freedom To Breathe: LGBTQIA+ Asylum Seekers In Iceland
It’s no secret that Iceland is broadly regarded as a safe and accepting place for the LGBTQIA+ community. Laws criminalising same-sex sexual activity were repealed in 1940, same-sex couples have been legally permitted to register their partnership since 1996, marriage was made…
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Pretty, Witty & Gay: Reykjavík Pride Is A Week Full Of Wonders
It still comes as a surprise to so many fine visitors to our fair isle that the public party that draws the biggest crowd is the annual Reykjavík Pride parade. “Not the Independence Day parade?” they ask. All tea no shade, but…
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Rainbow Street Vandalised
On the morning of Sunday, August 27, neighbours of Reykjavík’s Skólavörðustræti – more commonly known as Rainbow Street – woke up to a grim act of vandalism on the famed walkway. A portion of the street had been ruined by white paint. In…
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Connecting Queer People
The growing popularity of Samtökin ‘78’s youth clubs Headquartered in the office and cultural centre at Suðurgata 3, Samtökin ‘78 operates an active network of social clubs and services aimed towards LGBTQ+ people. As the national queer organisation of Iceland, its operations span…
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Grapevine Events: Reykjavík Slutwalk, Street Food Festival, IceDocs & More
We’re smooth sailing through the month and it’s honestly a bit of a slow one! We don’t want to call it a cruel summer, but it’s not the most active we’ve had. With the recent closure of venues like Húrra and a…
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10 Reports Of LGBTQ+ Harassment Following Pride
Samtökin ’78, the National Queer Organisation, has received reports of at least 10 incidents of harassment since the Pride celebration last week, reports RÚV. [su_pullquote]The Volcano is on (again) at Fagradalsfjall! Check out our volcano merch in the Grapevine shop: books, T-shirts,…
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Being Nonbinary: In Iceland And Everywhere
The existence of nonbinary people is gaining slow but steady recognition in many Eurocentric countries—Iceland included. While we celebrate the fact that Iceland officially allows for a third legal gender marker—X—and has somewhat relaxed their naming laws, most of the challenges nonbinary…
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Pride In A Pandemic: Reykjavík Pride Reshapes Itself For 2020
“Our first decision was that, no matter what, we weren’t going to cancel,” Vilhjálmur “Villi” Ingi Vilhjálmsson, the President of Reykjavík Pride, says proudly. Sitting back, he takes a bite of a croissant, apologising quickly for eating during the interview—he’s been in…
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Ten Years Since The Legalisation Of Same-Sex Marriage In Iceland
Ten years have passed since same-sex marriage was signed into law in Iceland, Morgunblaðið reports. Before the legalization, same-sex couples were able to officially register domestic partnerships, but they could not get married. The legalization of same-sex marriage in 2010 eliminated this…
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Tourist Vs. Rainbow Flag: 0-1, Rainbow Flag
An American tourist stormed out of Hallgrímskirkja on August 11th after taking offence to the display of rainbow flags in the church. It seems American Evangelical exclusivity takes no rest, even on holiday. Before storming out, the unnamed delicate flower had a…
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You’re Here! You’re Queer! Celebrate It!: The Grapevine Guide to Reykjavík Pride
The annual Reykjavík Pride has finally arrived for a fabulous two-week-long celebration. Yipee! This year’s iteration is chock full of fun and important events guaranteed to make you celebrate your beautiful queerness. To help you make the most of the festivities, the…
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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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Life In Pictures: Reykjavík Pride
From August 7th to August 12th, Pride took hold of Reykjavík in its loving hands to celebrate the variety of life and the beauty of inclusiveness. The biggest event of the week was the legendary Pride Parade, where floats showcased the ever-growing…
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Reykjavik Pride Begins!
The most wonderful time of the year is here again, everyone! Reykjavík Pride kicked off yesterday, and was rung in by painting Skólavörðurstígur with the Pride rainbow, which included the participation of Gunnlaugur Bragi Björnsson, the President of Reykjavík Pride 2018, and…
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Word Of The Issue: Hommi
Look up “hommi” in the dictionary and you’ll find the definition of a gay man. But colloquially this word refers to something else: a dustpan and broom with a long handle. While the idea of a long handle might conjure up the…
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The Great Guide To Pride: Books, Parades and Brunch
Reykjavík’s annual Pride festival is a colourful explosion of parties, parades, seminars and events all based around celebrating, examining, discussing and expressing all shades of gay and queer identity in Iceland. You can pick up a Pride Pass that will get you…
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Time For Pride
“I think I’ve cried every time,” says Eva María Þórarinsdóttir Lange, the six-time president of the Reykjavík Pride management team, about the final day of the festival. After a year of unpaid work and preparation, “Seeing a grandmother waving a rainbow flag…
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I Need Pride
I have cried more tears into my keyboard over the past few months than I care to count. My recent trip to the US was a tragedy sandwich, with mass shootings in Orlando and Dallas as the bread and a succession of…
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From Silence To Utopia: Queer History In Iceland
When president Guðni Th. Jóhannesson took the stage at Reykjavík Pride on August 6 followed by a group of drag queens and kings dressed in their finest rainbow-patterned outfits, you’d be excused for thinking Iceland has always been the queerest rock in…
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Beyond The Binary: Ugla Stefanía On Trans Rights In Iceland
Iceland has “fallen behind” when it comes to legal protections for transgender people, according to trans activist Ugla Stefanía Kristjönudóttir Jónsdóttir. Their comments come just ahead of the seventeenth annual Reykjavík Pride, a week-long festival celebrating Iceland’s LGBTQI communities that begins on…
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Icelanders In Search Of Neologisms For LGBTQAI+ Contexts
A contest has begun to create Icelandic words for concepts and identity types that have arisen from the LGBTQAI+ community. Icelandic is not a language known for easily borrowing foreign words, and creating new Icelandic words for new concepts can be daunting.…
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Reykjavík Pride 2014 In Pictures
Here is a series of photos that Reykjavík Pride photographer Alísa Kalyanova snapped from the annual Pride parade. It was a fun family-friendly day filled with floats, concerts and activities that celebrated diversity. Photos provided by Reykjavík Pride. — Want to hear what people had…