7 august - The Reykjavik Grapevine

GAY PRIDE
CELEBRATION:
Saturday August 6th
Last year’s Gay Pride Celebration
brought in a reported 40,000 visitors,
though from our office, downtown
Reykjavík looked a good deal more packed
than that. As local author Andri Snær
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Magnason has claimed, the Gay Pride
Celebrations in Iceland have surmounted
June 17th, Icelandic Independence Day,
in numbers of celebrators, and possibly
in meaning—many marching under the
rainbow flag remember a time when being
openly gay was not as accepted as it is now.
NASA, the large night club in
downtown Reykjavík near the home of
Iceland’s founding father Jón “Forseti”
Sigurðsson, will hold the official Gay Pride
Party, with proceeds going to support local
youth groups. But almost every club in
town will present live music, and the streets
will be packed until morning with tolerant
revellers.
For more information, visit www.gayice.is.
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It’s free! Grapevine in Your Pocket, issue no 11, 2005
Jónsi, seen here singing his little-known
single, “My Sixpack Will Destroy You.”
Children simultaneously promoting tolerance and giving Jerry Falwell a seizure.
Gay Pride Day: makes Independence Day
look like an insurance seminar.
Your Inside Guide to Reykjavík
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Laugavegur 11
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