With great sorrow we learned on Sunday evening that Svein Skeid had passed away in Ullevål hospital in Oslo on Sunday, 13th December, shortly after experiencing a heart attack.
Svein had recently celebrated his 70th birthday, and now leaves a void behind. Through four decades he has worked relentlessly for gay rights and been at the front line of many a battle. The results of Svein’s work are manifold.
This autumn, the board applied for support from several sources to ensure that we could get through these tough times and we’re very happy that our application to the Lotteritilsynet was approved.
Together with the membership fees that will be gathered later this year it means that we’ll be fine for now.
We still cannot have parties in our premises since we can’t be socially distant inside but we will have a different type of activity in November, namely an art exhibition.
Also, while the premises are closed we’re proceeding with necessary maintenance.
Watch the horror short that was filmed recently in our basement by students from Kristiania University College in Oslo
Even though we can’t have our usual parties due to the pandemic, it is fun to be able to help with these kinds of atypical, covid friendly initiatives in our club. The film looks really well done, nice job guys!
Actors Malky Renate Frank & Aksel Skorm Mena Refsdal
Director Syver Myhrvold
Producer Sofie Arnesen
Photographer Morten Malerstuen
Audio design Aksel Skorm Mena Refsdal
Make-up Emma Louise Orskaug
Storyboard Artist Truls Myklevik
Winner! The winner of the leather jacket raffle has received his jacket and we hope he wears it with pride!
When Per Helge won the title of Mr. Leather Norway in 2019 he also won a leather jacket from DuoShop but he decided to donate it to a new member of SLM Oslo, decided by a random draw.
Congratulations Bjørn and thank you Per Helge and DuoShop!
Our club zine “Lenka” is now on display in the lobby of the National Art Academy of Oslo until the 15th of September.
Our social media “selfie” contest is now concluded and the 6x 500kr gift cards from Duoshop are on their way to the winners. Thanks to everybody who participated and congratulations again to our winners!
Thank you so much to everybody that came and celebrated Pride with us out on the street, it was a blast! We’re deeply grateful to our volunteers that worked hard outside in the sunshine and 30 degree heat from 10 in the morning til 21:30 at night.
SLM Oslo received the honor of “Bear of the year 2020” from the wonderful Norway Bears! The title was handed out by the prime minister of Norway Erna Solberg and was broadcast live throughout the country in the Pride stream as well as NRK, NTB, TV3 and VG TV.
Due to the Covid-19 situation, this year’s general assembly was delayed from March to June. It was held digitally on Zoom due to continued virus restrictions. Luckily it was well attended, including members not living in Oslo.
See the video made with Helseutvalget for Oslo Pride here. (Go through the entire digital parade on the site and you’ll find the video at the end by Spikersuppa)