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British embassy flies the rainbow flag

The British Embassy in Oslo has decked itself in rainbow colours in support of the Europride festival taking place in Oslo this week.

Published: 25 June 2014 14:40 CEST
British embassy flies the rainbow flag
The rear entrance to the British embassy in Oslo decked out in rainbow colours. Photo: British Embassy Oslo
The Embassy has strung arches of rainbow balloons inside its rear gate on Oslo's upmarket Drammensveien, and printed a poster giving a Pride festival take on the clichéd Keep Calm and Carry On slogan. 
 
“The British Embassy is keen to display its solidarity for Europride in Oslo," UK ambassador Jane Owen said. "Norway was ahead of us in legalising same-sex marriage in 2009, but I am pleased to say we are celebrating the UK’s first gay marriages this year." 
 
According to the Embassy, The Foreign and Commonwealth Office at King Charles Street in Whitehall, London will also fly the rainbow flag this Saturday. 
 

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STOCKHOLM

Stockholm Pride is a little different this year: here’s what you need to know 

This week marks the beginning of Pride festivities in the Swedish capital. The tickets sold out immediately, for the partly in-person, partly digital events. 

Published: 2 August 2021 10:33 CEST
Pride parade 2019
There won't be a Pride parade like the one in 2019 on the streets of Stockholm this year. Photo: Stina Stjernkvist/TT

You might have noticed rainbow flags popping up on major buildings in Stockholm, and on buses and trams. Sweden has more Pride festivals per capita than any other country and is the largest Pride celebration in the Nordic region, but the Stockholm event is by far the biggest.  

The Pride Parade, which usually attracts around 50,000 participants in a normal year, will be broadcast digitally from Södra Teatern on August 7th on Stockholm Pride’s website and social media. The two-hour broadcast will be led by tenor and debater Rickard Söderberg.

The two major venues of the festival are Pride House, located this year at the Clarion Hotel Stockholm at Skanstull in Södermalm, and Pride Stage, which is at Södra Teatern near Slussen.

“We are super happy with the layout and think it feels good for us as an organisation to slowly return to normal. There are so many who have longed for it,” chairperson of Stockholm Pride, Vix Herjeryd, told the Dagens Nyheter newspaper.

Tickets are required for all indoor events at Södra Teatern to limit the number of people indoors according to pandemic restrictions. But the entire stage programme will also be streamed on a big screen open air on Mosebacketerassen, which doesn’t require a ticket.  

You can read more about this year’s Pride programme on the Stockholm Pride website (in Swedish). 

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