“The city police caught a homosexual red-handed the other night. The man had become acquainted with a “negro” from one of the ships in the harbour and had managed to get him to succumb to his needs.”
This is how a clipping from an old Icelandic newspaper reads. The clipping is a part of an exhibition on queer history “Bringing Out the Past” and “Pride in Pictures 200-2011” in Iceland that opened in the Reykjavik City Hall yesterday as a part of Reykjavik Gay Pride