[Theme: Hetero]
Stockholm Pride 2009 - [Theme: Hetero]
[Theme: Hetero] is the theme for Stockholm Pride 2009. The theme focuses on how the heterosexual norm affects homosexuals, bisexuals and transgendered persons’ every day life and how its consequences affects society as a whole.
- “If a person breaks the unwritten rules regarding gender and sexual identity, that person is suddenly questioned or stared upon”, says Jonah Nylund, president of Stockholm Pride.
Heteronormativity provides the frame of reference for expectations of how a person should act and behave or be perceived as far as gender and sexuality is concerned.
- “Most people live outside this frame of reference in one way or another but GLBT-people, who clearly break these “rules”, constantly end up in situations where they have to make choices that affect their every day life”, Jonah Nylund explains.
This year Stockholm Pride will focus on the situations that characterize a GLBT-person’s every day life. A clear example of this comes from a very real situation:
“Jocke and Mathias just moved in to an apartment. It’s on the lower level and it has big windows that face the walkway outside, which also allows people to see in to the apartment. By the window in the kitchen, Jocke bends over to Mathias to give him a kiss. Mathias reaction is that they should go in to the bedroom so no one can see them. The uneasiness of not knowing how the neighbors will react limits their possibilities to live their life to the fullest in their own home.”
- “The limitations of the heterosexual norm and its consequences puts the individual in conflict with himself/herself. GLBT-persons are forced more often than others to face the question of whether they should actively choose to break the norm or live by it. To always have to think and be forced to choose is emotionally draining”, Jonah Nylund concludes.
Contact:
Jessica W Sandberg Head of Press
Stockholm Pride 0737-31 26 81
press@stockholmpride.org
Jonah Nylund
President Stockholm Pride
0708-78 04 31
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