Sessions
Welcome to the digital programme for WorldPride and EuroGames 2021.
Below each title is a short description of the session. Click on More information to get a longer description.
Attending sessions is free but you need to register for an account, to do so: click here. When you have registered you can log in and add sessions to your calendar and network with other participants.
Once the session starts, click 'Join session' to attend. Please note that attendance will be decided on a first come, first served basis.
We also have public streams in the menu, open for all.
Physical events held at WorldPride House is booked here.
If you have any questions please contact digitaleventsupport@malmopride.com
Hatred - the threat to sustainable societies
RFSL
Friday August 13, 2021 15:30 - 17:00 GREEN room
(Language of the event English) Freedom from violence is central to creating peaceful and inclusive societies.
Why was I born gay in Africa?
Edwin Simeon Sikot, Edwin Simeon Sikot
Thursday August 19, 2021 11:30 - 12:30 ORANGE room
(This event is held in English)The plight of a gay priest from kenya who lost his family, tortured sentence in prison without going to court.
Sverige behöver en ny könstillhörighetslag
RFSL
Thursday August 19, 2021 15:00 - 16:00 GREEN room
(This event is held in Swedish)Sverige har en könstillhörighetslag från 1972
Queering Shakespeare
Mette Hildeman Sjölin, Mette Hildeman Sjölin
Saturday August 21, 2021 17:00 - 18:00 GREEN room
(This event is held in English)Based on research for her doctoral thesis and on her creative practice as director with an amateur theatre company,
Vad är händer inom HBTQI+-politiken? Utfrågning av fyra Europaparlamentariker
RFSU, Martin Candell, Evin Incir S, Karin Karlsbro L, Malin Björk V, Tomas Tobé M
Tuesday August 17, 2021 11:30 - 12:30 GREEN room
(This event is held in Swedish )Vad är händer inom HBTQI+-politiken? Utfrågning av fyra Europaparlamentariker
Partner violence in same-sex and queer relationships
RFSL Rådgivningen Skåne, Jonas David, Karin Wulff, Malena Cronholm Nouicer, Žana Dončić
Thursday August 19, 2021 16:00 - 17:00 ORANGE room
(Language of the event Swedish) The incidence of violence in same-sex and queer relationships is high.
Komma ut
Sternulfs Nöje AB, ,
Sunday August 15, 2021 12:00 - 13:30 PINK room
(Language of the event Swedish) The LGBT monologue "Komma ut" is played over 700 (!) times around the Nordic countries.
Emil Kléen and his darkening time – to see a black and white 19th century with rainbow lenses
Insititute for studies in Malmö's history, Arvida Juni Svenske
Sunday August 15, 2021 14:00 - 15:00 PINK room
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(Language of the event Swedish)Emil Kléen (1868-1898) was a poet, journalist and author from Sätofta outside Höör in Scania and was active mainly in Lund and Malmö in the late 1800s, close friend of the famous Swedish author August Strindberg and died far too young in the aftermath of tuberculosis and syphilis.
WE CAN DO BETTER THAN THIS: NEXT FRONTIERS IN LGBTQIA+ ACTIVISM
Amelia Abraham, Amelia Abraham, Andrew Gurza, Dani Coyle, Yasmin Benoit
Sunday August 22, 2021 16:30 - 17:30 PURPLE room
(This event is held in English)We talk about 'equality', but what does it really mean?
On gender concepts
FPES Föreningen för transpersoner
Wednesday August 18, 2021 11:30 - 12:30 ORANGE room
(Language of the event Swedish) A panel discussion to shed light on various aspects of the view of gender and gender identity.
Amsterdam Rainbow Dress exhibition
Amsterdam Rainbow Dress Foundation
Thursday August 19, 2021 09:30 - 10:30 ORANGE room
A presentation of the artwork “Amsterdam Rainbow Dress”. (Language of the event English)
The Polish government's war against sexuality education and LGBTQI-persons
RFSU, Milosz Hodun
Tuesday August 17, 2021 10:00 - 11:00 GREEN room
(This event is held in English)The attack from the Polish government on sexuality education in schools and LGBTQ+ persons are linked to each other.
Pathways to safety - Why do we leave our home?
Friday August 20, 2021 13:00 - 14:10 TRACK 1
Listen and gain a more in-depth awareness as experts, including those with lived experience, discuss different aspects under the broad topic of pathways to safety. You will also gain a deeper understanding of the state of LGBTQIA+ refugees in the global south and different drivers of people with self lived experience towards the pathways of safety.
"Lesbian Moms, Their Children and Asylum: A case study of AB v Finland"
Eurocentralasian Lesbian* Community - EL*C
Thursday August 12, 2021 15:30 - 17:30 GREEN room
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(Language of the event English, Russian)In 2021, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child found that Finland failed to consider the best interests of the child of a lesbian couple when rejecting his asylum request, and to protect him against a real risk of irreparable harm when the family had no other choice but to return to Russia.
Sexual harassment of LGBT+ persons in the workplace. What are your rights?
Monday August 16, 2021 16:00 - 16:45 GREEN room
You don't exist
TRANS-FORMING, Camilla Gisslow
Wednesday August 18, 2021 10:00 - 11:00 PURPLE room
(This event is held in English)
This lecture is about children with a transgender identity and their rights according to the four basic principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Children.
To work with outreach sexual information in Malmö's erotic oases during the 1990s
Insititute for studies in Malmö's history, Jack Lukkerz
Saturday August 21, 2021 16:30 - 17:30 ORANGE room
(This event is held in Swedish)
Men have always met in secluded places for sexual adventures.
How can that be honour related violence?
Kvinnojouren Öresund | Ungdomsjouren Öresund
Thursday August 19, 2021 13:00 - 14:30 YELLOW room
(Language of the event Swedish) Is honour related violence and oppression an imported problem?
The LGBTQI-movement in the future
RFSL
Saturday August 21, 2021 10:00 - 11:00 GREEN room
Within RFSL there is an ongoing process defining a new vision to bring the organisation into the future.
Pathways to safety - where are professionals lacking insight?
Friday August 20, 2021 13:00 - 14:10 TRACK 2
Learn from experts and people with lived experience on different aspects under the broad theme of pathways to safety. This will have a focus on things that these people consider important and that professionals in the many fields concerned here might be lacking insight regarding.