The National Norwegian Archive for Queer History
2022 marks the 50 year anniversary of decriminalisation of sex between men in Norway. In order to address this, Skeivt arkiv, the National Museum and the National Library...
Karen-Christine Friele has been a central activist in the Norwegian gay rights movement since 1963.
At the end of March Skeivt arkiv attended the festival conference OUTing the Past in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
For the first time in Norway: OUTing the Past - queer history to the people! Bergen Public Library, March 16th, 12-15.30.
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 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...
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,...
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.