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Oslo Pride

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Oslo Pride
Oslo Pride Parade in Oslo city center
GenrePride festival
Date(s)Latter half of June every year
Location(s)Oslo city center

Oslo Pride is a festival and cultural event held annually in Oslo during the latter half of June. The festival welcomes everyone who supports or feels connected to the LGBTI+ community, including lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender people, and Intersex individuals.

Organized by Fri Oslo and Viken, Oslo Pride is Norway’s largest pride festival, attracting approximately 450,000 visitors and participants over the course of its ten-day run. The program features seminars, film festivals, concerts, art exhibitions, performances, political debates, and a dedicated festival area at Kontraskjæret near Akershus Fortress.

The largest and most visible event of the festival is the Pride Parade, held on the final day. In recent years, the parade has drawn around 50,000 participants.

About the Festival

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The festival’s history dates back to June 27, 1974, when a group of queer activists organized the first public commemoration of the Stonewall uprising. The gathering brought together 250 people at University Square in Oslo.[1] The first official event with a parade was held in 1982, and since then, the festival has steadily grown in scope. During the 1990s, it expanded into a ten-day program featuring seminars, lectures, debates, concerts, and parties across various venues in Oslo.

Oslo Pride consists of several key events: Pride Park, Pride House, Mini Pride, the Pride Parade, and the Oslo Pride Business Forum. Pride Park serves as the main hub of the festival and is constructed at Kontraskjæret. The park includes four stages (Main Stage, Bear Stage, Culture Stage, and Studio 72), along with bars, food vendors, and booths from various interest groups and partners of Oslo Pride. In 2023, the park was relocated to Kontraskjæret to expand both audience capacity and festival content. [2] In 2024, the park was temporarily moved to Sofienberg Park as Kontraskjæret was rented out for a football event, but the festival will return to Kontraskjæret from 2025. [3] Previously, Pride Park was held at City Hall Square (2013–2014) and Spikersuppa (2015–2022). [4] In 2023, Mini Pride was hosted in the courtyard of Myntgata 2, Pride House was held at the House of Doctors, and the Oslo Pride Business Forum took place at Clarion Hotel Bjørvika.[5][6][7]

According to the organizers, Oslo Pride attracted approximately 450,000 participants and visitors over the ten days of the festival in 2019. [8]

The entire festival is planned and run by volunteers, including around 100 year-round volunteers and 450 more during the festival itself. As of 2023, the general manager of Oslo Pride is Dan Bjørke. The festival is owned by Fri Oslo og Viken, the regional branch of the national organization for gender and sexual diversity. [9]

In 2020, the physical festival was canceled and instead held as a digital event due to the coronavirus pandemic.[10] For the same reason, the 2021 festival was organized with cohort divisions and a limited number of attendees allowed in Pride Park at any given time. [11]

Pride Parade

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The largest single event during the festival is the parade, which takes place on the final Saturday. The parade begins on Grønlandsleiret and moves through Grønland, around Oslo City, via Kirkeristen, Stortorvet, Grensen, and Rosenkrantz' gate before ending on Karl Johans gate and at the festival area in Spikersuppa. [12]

The parade brings together participants—both queer and heterosexual—from a wide range of businesses, associations, organizations, political parties, and government agencies. According to the organizers, the parade gathers around 50,000 participants, with up to 300,000 spectators lining the streets of downtown Oslo. [13][14]

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic led to the parade being cancelled for the first time. As a replacement, a multi-hour digital parade show was produced as part of the festival’s broader online program. [10][15][16] Adam Schjølberg, Else Kåss Furuseth, and Frida Marida hosted the live-streamed event. [17]

In 2024, Pride Park was temporarily relocated to Sofienberg Park, which led to an alternative route for the parade. That year, the parade began at Grønlandsleiret and continued through Grønland to Kirkeristen, then followed Storgata and Thorvald Meyers Gate before concluding at Sofienberg Park. [18] Organizers estimated around 70,000 participants that year. [19]

History

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The event was established as a gay pride festival organized by what was then LLH Oslo and Akershus in 1982. In its early years, the festival was known as Homodagene (“The Gay Days”), and later as Skeive dager (“Queer Days”) before adopting its current name in 2014. [20]

Oslo has served as the host city for the international pride event EuroPride on two occasions: first in 2005 and again in 2014.[21][22][23]

The Fryd Award and the Honorary Award

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The Fryd Award, formerly known as the Homofryd Award, is an annual prize presented to one or more individuals, businesses, or organizations that have made a significant and positive contribution over the past year to the fight for the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people. The award has been presented regularly since the early 1980s. [24]

The Honorary Award, formerly known as Honorary Gay of the Year, is presented to an individual, group, or organization that has made an outstanding contribution to improving the status of queer people in Norwegian society.[25] The award has been presented since 1992.[24]

Together, the Fryd Award and the Honorary Award are considered the most prestigious honors within Norway’s LGBTQ+ movement. Both are awarded during Oslo Pride.

Fryd Award

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Year Recipients[26][27]
2024 Remi Johansen Hovda[28]
2023 The support group for the June 25 Oslo mass shooting[29]
2022 Lise Klaveness
2021 The Patient Organization for Gender Incongruence (PKI)
2020 The Snapchat and Instagram account Hverdagsskeiv[25]
2019 The Health Center for Gender and Sexuality
2018 Kari Veiteberg
2017 Skam (TV series), including its actors and creator Julie Andem
2016 Self-Help for Immigrants and Refugees (SEIF)[30]
2015 Skeivt arkiv (The Queer Archive)[31]
2014 Amnesty International Norway
2013 Svolvær Parish
2012 Kristin Halvorsen
2011 Akershus Football Association
2010 The documentary series Jentene på Toten and its participants
2009 Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO)
2008 Magnhild Meltveit Kleppa
2007 The Natural History Museum (Oslo) for the exhibition Against Nature?
2006 Bishop Rosemarie Köhn
2005 The Council of the Oslo Diocese
2004 Wenche Foss
2003 Gry Jannicke “J-Diva” Jarlum
2002 Shabana Rehman
2001 Karita Bekkemellem
2000 Crown Prince Haakon
1999 Elisabeth Ohlson[32]
1998 Unknown
1997 Simon Flem Devold[33]
1996 Leo Burnett Advertising Agency[34]
1995 Karol Svanøe and Halvor Moxnes[35]
1994 Tronsmo Bookstore[36]
1993 NRK's U editorial team, represented by Tonje Steinsland[37]
1992 Berit Aalborg[38]
1991 Trond Jensrud and Jan Erik Fåne[39]
1990 Unknown
1989 Else Myklebust
1988 Kirkens Bymisjon in Oslo[40]
1987 Ritha Jørgensen and Roy Larsen[41]
1986 Fredrik Mellbye[42]
1985 Yngve Horn and Wenche Lowzow[43]
1984 The Parents’ Group for Parents of LGBTQ+ Individuals
1983 Unknown
1982 Unknown

Honorary Award

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Year Recipients
2024 Skeiv Ungdom and Aasmund Robert Vik
2023 Skeivt Art and Culture Center (SKOKS)
2022 Arne Kielland (posthumously)
2021 Oslo Fagottkor
2020 Guro Sibeko
2019 Reidar Engesbak
2018 HivNorge
2017 Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad
2016 Kim Fangen
2015 Luca Dalen Espseth
2014 Blikk
2013 Susanne Demou Øvergaard, Secretary General of Skeiv Verden
2012 Hanne Børke-Fykse at Rosa Kompetanse
2011 Svein Fuglestad, Cultural Leader at Aksept
2010 Kari Folvik
2009 André Oktay Dahl and Anette Trettebergstuen
2008 Kjell Erik Øie
2007 Erling Lae
2006 Gaysir
2005 Rolf Angeltvedt of the Health Committee for Better Gay Health
2004 Open Church Group
2003 Svein Skeid
2002 The Virus Group
2001 Sissel Hansen and Marianne Larsen of the venue Potpurriet
2000 Brita Møystad Engseth
1999 Arne Walderhaug
1998 Turid Eikvam
1997 The Gay Film Club Skeive Filmer
1996 Per Kristina Roghell
1995 Kjell Erik Øie
1994 Terje Strømdahl
1993 Kim Friele
1992 Karin Enderud

Homophobia Award

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Until 2009, an award known as the "Homophobia Award" or "Homophobe of the Year" was also presented, given to a person or organization that had worked against the rights of homosexuals and queer individuals. In 2009, FRI Oslo and Viken (then known as LLH Oslo and Akershus) discontinued this award in order to shift focus to the positive recognitions: the Fryd Award and the Honorary Award.[44]

Year Recipient(s)
2008 Ulf Erik Knudsen[45]
2007 Arne Bjørn Hansen, parish priest in Ås Parish[46]
2006 Dagbladet newspaper[47][48]
2005 The Norwegian Football Association[49]
2004 The Progress Party[50]
2003 The Salvation Army[51]
2002 Lena Larsen, head of the Islamic Council of Norway[52]
2001 Norwegian Psychoanalytic Society[53]
2000 Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports[54]
1999 Pentecostal churches in Norway[32]
1998 Bondevik's First Cabinet[55]
1997 Norwegian Armed Forces Command[33]
1996 Per Sundby[56]
1995 Rolf Nyhus[57]
1994 Hans J. Røsjorde[36]
1993 Finn Jarle Sæle, editor of the newspaper Dagen[37]
1992 Svein Alsaker[38]
1991 Andreas Aarflot[39]
1990 Unknown
1989 Unknown
1988 Norwegian YMCA/YWCA[40]
1987 Kåre Rånes, for the educational film *The Little Difference*[58]
1986 NRK’s programming editor Ada Haug[42]
1985 Willoch’s Cabinet[43]
1984 Not awarded due to too many "worthy" recipients[59]
1983 Unknown
1982 Unknown
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  • Solveig Horne and Bent Høie leading the Oslo Pride 2015 parade.
    Solveig Horne and Bent Høie leading the Oslo Pride 2015 parade.
  • Participant with a Jesus inscription on the rainbow flag during the 2015 Pride Parade.
    Participant with a Jesus inscription on the rainbow flag during the 2015 Pride Parade.
  • From the 2016 Pride Parade, near Oslo Spektrum.
    From the 2016 Pride Parade, near Oslo Spektrum.
  • Nurses in traditional uniforms with drums during the 2016 parade.
    Nurses in traditional uniforms with drums during the 2016 parade.
  • Marchers dressed in pink and white sailor suits during the 2016 parade.
    Marchers dressed in pink and white sailor suits during the 2016 parade.

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