2008-07-22

Wednesday 22 July 1998, 11.50

This report is going to be short, cos I have to get the next train into town and get to the Ecce Homo exhibition in time to volunteer for a couple of hours...

Yesterday then. Well the reason I got up so late (FSVO) was the QX Party Factory's Rai and Latino night, which was kinda quiet but fun. DJ Christer Broman didn't play anything like long enough before Vera from Oslo got going on her wonderful latin stuff. He reckons Stockholm is still not ready for rai dance music (I mean, like just how long has Cheb Khaled been around?). Mind you, a year ago the whole idea would have been pretty much unthinkable. This is something I'm liking about EuroPride, the way minority tastes in all sorts of thing can have a moment of glory.

Sunny PridePark. Again. This time with even more people, many newly-arrived to check out the schlager evening. Which was fun - Håkan and I played with the rainbow flag (it's hard to raise it at just the right point in the chorus, we discovered). Nanne Grönvall was just excellent. Who needs drag queens, one wonders for about half an hour?

Less exciting were the Amnesty demo at Sergels Torg (the poor woman from TV3 news had clearly been expecting a showdown with the neonazis or something, rather than 20 people with placards and speeches) and the Elbowroom art exhibition. But maybe I was just in the wrong frame of mind for it.

Oh, and a chat with the nice people at the National Federation for Transexuals reveals that the SLM leather club does not let in female-to-male transgendered folks. Time for some discussion guys?

1 kommentar:

Robert Cumming sa...

Elbowroom-utställningen var först gången jag såg något av konstnären Maria Friberg. Kanske hennes affärsmannafötter under mötesbordet. Eller nån video - som vanligt minns jag inte. Men medan Elisabeth Ohlsson blev jättekänd under åren efter EuroPride så är det väl Friberg som har blivit den stora konstnären.