Skeivt Arkiv

The Norwegian archive for queer history

Trusting Queer Archives

Join the conference in Helsinki, 11 October 2023. Hosted by NNAQH.

Skeivt arkiv introduces The Queer Map

The map gathers points of interests for Norwegian queer history

Ingeborg Holm

Trade union leader, communist, and resistance woman.

LGBTQ+ History Month

The first LGBTQ+ History Month was celebrated in the USA in 1994.

“He cannot live without him.”

A woman reported her husband's unseemly affair to the police.

New Academic Director at the Queer Archive

New Academic Director at the Queer Archive.

Why (Queer) History Matters – Watch it all.

The posters saying safe sex

Posters from the time of the health crisis are available at the Queer Archive.

Agnes Bolsø (født 1953)

Professor of interdisciplinary gender studies Agnes Bolsø has since the early 1970s been active on the left in Norwegian politics and NGOs, including Det Norske Forbundet av...

Aasmund Robert Vik (born 1947)

Aasmund Robert Vik was one of the central driving forces when Åpen Kirkegruppe (support network for christian LGBT persons in Norway) was established in 1976. He has been...

Ellen Mortensen (born 1953)

Today, Ellen Mortensen is a professor of literary studies at University of Bergen, and a notable feminist. She has an activist background from organizations such as DNF-48,...

Inge Ås (born 1953)

Ås was one of the most visible active lesbian feminists in 1970s Norway, and a central figure at Kvinnehuset (the women's house) in Oslo.

Contribute your story. Note that due to privacy regulations all stories must be anonymous. That means that you have to make sure that places, people's names, highly recognizable episodes or characteristics, etc, are changed. It's especially important that you make sure that other people in your story can not be recognized by outsiders.

We ask you to include age, and if you want gender identity at the top of your story. We also appreciate if you provide the labels you use to describe yourself (if you have any), for example, queer, lesbian, gay, homosexual, bisexual, transsexual, genderfluid, genderqueer, pansexual, transgender, etc.

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University of Bergen Library, Skeivt arkiv

Visiting address: Skeivt arkiv
HF-bygget, Sydnesplassen 7, 5007 Bergen

Opening hours:
Monday and Wednesday: 09:00–15:30 (15:00 mid-May–mid-Sep)
Thursday: 10:00–15:30 (mid-May–mid-Sep)

Postal address: Postboks 7808, 5020 Bergen
Contact: skeivtarkiv@uib.no

Skeivt arkiv has taken every effort to ensure that texts and image use are correct. Any corrections will be performed regularly. Please contact us if you discover any errors. All texts are available under Creative Commons License Attribution-ShareAlike.

News

Trusting Queer Archives

Skeivt arkiv introduces The Queer Map

Ingeborg Holm

LGBTQ+ History Month

“He cannot live without him.”

New Academic Director at the Queer Archive

Why (Queer) History Matters – Watch it all.

The posters saying safe sex

Interviews

Agnes Bolsø (født 1953)

Aasmund Robert Vik (born 1947)

Ellen Mortensen (born 1953)

Inge Ås (born 1953)

Your story

Kart

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Utforsk norsk skeiv historie gjennom kartet!

University of Bergen Library, Skeivt arkiv

Skeivt Arkiv in media

«Treng meir forsking»

Treng meir forsking

Stiller ut minnesamling etter Pride-terroren

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