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Stockholm Pride is here!

Is Stockholm the city of love? Now if ever it is. The Swedish capital's long, sunny nights bring out the best in people, and to top it all, next week is Stockholm Pride — here to celebrate love and equality. Read all about love, dating and Pride on Sweden.se!

 


LATEST FEATURE

Pride kids — power to a new generation

by: Christine Demsteader

Stockholm Pride can be a flamboyant showcase of sexuality and an adult arena for debate and discussion. Now a new project ensures there’s something for the family too, promoting the event as a playground for gay parents and their kids.

 

Why Pride in Sweden?

by: Stephen Whitlock

Summer brings a number of arts festivals, concerts … and gay Pride parades. In the four decades since the modern gay rights movement began in the United States, Pride marches have become well-established highlights of the warmer months in many cities around the world.

 

LOVE BLOG

Who wears the trousers in Sweden?

I wear trousers more often than I do skirts. I’m not a raving feminist. My chosen dress code has little to do with household decision-making. I just hate my little stumpy legs. To my knowledge, my sambo doesn’t wear...

 

Love according to Swedes — interviews


In these video interviews we delve into issues of love, sex, jealousy and closeness. Ten interviews with people who are single, engaged, married, or living together. What makes a Swedish heart skip a beat?

Watch the interviews


Sweden says “I do” to same-sex marriage

by: Christine Demsteader

Last year on May 1, Alexandra Einerstam and Åsa Andersson became wife and wife, tying the knot on the day same-sex marriage legislation came into force in Sweden.

 

SUSTAINABILITY BLOG

Sweden’s most beautiful patient

The glittering water of the Baltic Sea looks as beautiful as ever. But Sweden's inland sea isn't feeling well. It isn't too...

 

News from The Local — Sweden's news in English


Sleepless in Stockholm

by: David Wiles

It’s a cool, cosmopolitan city populated by more than its fair share of beautiful people. So why are so many Stockholmers single?

 

Equality starts in preschool

A blue cup for her and a pink cup for him — does that sound weird? Not for Swedish children. Gender pedagogy at pre-school level puts everyone on an equal footing.

 

Love on the spot

by: Aleksander Kovacevic

Stockholm is a city full of love. But where do you find it? We ventured out among bingo halls, leafy parks and lakeside cliffs to get Stockholm couples to describe their own special places of the heart.

 

Secular Swedes marry in church

by: Cari Simmons

August is the most popular month for Swedes to get married. And in a country that claims to be secular, a surprisingly large number of people choose to tie the knot in a church.

 

Royal wedding euphoria in Stockholm

by: Cari Simmons

On June 19, Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria married Daniel Westling. When she said yes to her prince, a cheer erupted among the spectators crowding the streets of Stockholm. Around 500,000 well-wishers had come to celebrate.

 

The wedding interview — Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling

by: TV4, Gregor Nowinski

Ahead of their big day, Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling agreed to a televised interview with Gregor Nowinski. Read what they say about love, families and their upcoming wedding.

 
 

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