Queer Film Festival opens July 29th at Bíó Paradís (Cinema Paradise, Hversfisgata 54) and run as a part of the Reykjavik Gay Pride festival coming up.  In the past Queer Film festival has offered to the Icelandic audience films that have received well earned attention at LGBT film festivals around the world and this year is no exception. The films on screen this year are Howl (USA), Broderskap (Denmark) which was voted the best film at the Rome film festival in 2009, Tomboy (France) and L’Arbre et la forêt (France).

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Sexual identity is not included in the draft for a new constitution recently put forward by the constitutional committee,  a 25 government-appointed citizens tasked with drafting a new constitution for Iceland. On the other hand sexual orientation is included in the draft in article 8th under Chapter II: Human Rights¹, which is an important step and a milestone to celebrate.

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Iceland´s most entertaining competetion, The Icelandic Drag competition, will be held in Harpa (Reykjavik Concert Hall) for the 14th time on August 3rd.  Drag is probably the oldest form of theatre known in the world and originates in earlier times when females were not allowed to act on stage so female roles were filled by men. Now today both men and women compete to become the Queen and King every year. Last year was a blast and this year will be even bigger! The show takes about 2 hours and is full of fun and laughter that you don't want to miss. Tickets available online and cost ISK 2.800.

Reykjavik Gay Pride is just around the corner but the event will take place August 4th - 7th. The Reykjavik Gay Pride Magazine and Program Guide is out and available online. The Gay Pride Program Guide contains information about the event and performing artist in Icelandic as well as in English. Gay Pride Program Guide will be available at cafes around the city including queer Cafe Truno on Laugavegur 22. Read more ...

The Royal Musical Couple of Iceland, Viggo and Violetta, will be throwing a major bash at Barbara on Wednesday the 20th of July. Barbara is the only gay club in Iceland and is at Laugavegur 22. Corner of Klapparstígur and Laugavegur. They will make the crowd go wild with their own speedy interpretation of two of the greatest musicals of all times: Rocky Horror and The Little Shop of Horrors! The performance will be in English and all the parts will be played by only three actors! Read more ...

The Reykjavik Gay Pride Magazine and Program Guide is out and is also available online. The Gay Pride Program Guide  contains information about the event and performing artist in Icelandic as well as in English. Gay Pride Program Guide will be available at cafes around the city including queer Cafe Truno on Laugavegur 22.  Read more ...

If you´re in search of ideas on what to do once in town, a walk through Reykjavík's LGBT history is something Gayice.is highly recommends. Hilmar Magnússon organizer and tour guide helps you to discover the hidden and murky sides of yesterday's Reykjavík and gives you some insight into three decades of struggle for human rights in Iceland, the path from bigotry to tolerance. Hear stories from the sleazy taverns of the past, meet the queer bohemians, the 19th century high school boys, the American soldiers, the Redstockings lesbians, the poets, the artists, the activists and the politicians and learn how LGBT people have risen from the gutter and emerged at the very top of Icelandic politics.

Every year the National Queer Organization, Samtokin '78, hands out the LGBT Human Rights Awards to honor individuals and Organization that have done an outstanding work for the LGBT community in Iceland, making it more visible and accepted. This year the awards are given to two individuals, pop-singer and activist Páll Óskar Hjálmtýsson (Paul Oscar) and Academic and Psychologist Sigrún Sveinbjornsdóttir. The organization awarded the Human Rights Award this year is HIV-Iceland.  The awards will be handed out during Reykjavik Gay Pride opening ceremony, August 4th. Read more ...