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Queering Laughter in the Stockholm Pride Parade

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2007

Anna Lundberg
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Abstract

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This article analyses the Stockholm Pride parade as an effective contemporary political stage, built on laughter and festivity. Taking its political point of departure in what is seen as being highly private and intimate, sexuality and the sexed body, the parade turns upside down one of the most central ideas of modernity: the dichotomy of public and private. Combining the theory of carnival laughter with queer theory, the article illustrates the way in which humour and politics work together in this contemporary blend of politics and popular culture.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Review of Social History , Volume 52 , Issue S15 , December 2007 , pp. 169 - 187
Copyright
2007 Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis