Reykjavík Grapevine - 05.08.2005, Side 27

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
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.
GAY PRIDE
CELEBRATION:
Saturday August 6th
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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.”
Your Inside Guide to Reykjavík
Gay Pride Day: makes Independence Day
look like an insurance seminar.
Children simultaneously promoting tolerance and giving Jerry Falwell a seizure.
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