Glitter, glamour and everyone’s equal value - it’s time for Stockholm Pride. Drag show director Petter Wallenberg is opening the festival and, at the same time, presenting the new Hate Crime Council initiative. “It’s about turning tragedy into triumph,” he says.
EntertainmentA neo-Nazi attack, threats and hatred have been directed at fairy tale hours with drag queens in recent years. Now, four people have been convicted for the first time for incitement against an ethnic or national group against drag show artists. A fantastic victory, says Petter Wallenberg, founder of the drag theater company "Among Dragons and Drag Queens".
SwedenAmong dragons and drag queens, they are awarded for their work to increase children's reading interest and counteract exclusion. The theatre group receives the Graphic Companies' and Media Companies' industry prize of 100,000 kronor.
EntertainmentWhen the liberal Jan Jönsson invites to a seminar on fairy tale hours with drag show artists in the parliament, it is with a clear edge. It is a marking and a criticism against the Sweden Democrats, he says.
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