Jul 31, 2007News: Stockholm Pride: More Than A Game
By vanrozenheim
(Sweden) - Stockholm starts celebrating the biggest Scandinavian Pride-festival. This years theme is sports and the theme runs through the entire festival. At the seminar centre Pride House, the leisure movements responsibility concerning LGBT-phobia is discussed with the Swedish Sports Confederation, among others. You can also join in on the dildo-kubb tournement. In Pride Park the focus is on spontaneous sports. Visitors can challange each other in croquet, on a climbing wall, with giant pick up sticks or by shooting Amor's arrows. Also, a ice skating rink will be rigged! Around Stockholm there are several tournaments and sports activities.
The golf tournement Pride Masters in Arlanda Stad and the soccer game between Stockholm Snipers and the celebrity team Stockholm Priders are only two examples. On friday a floor boll cup is played where six Swedish and Norwegian teams battle ut out. Even the Stockholm Pride organizers enter a team.
Stockholm Pride is celebrated between the 30th of July and 5th of August.
