By Hendrik Fischer Images from The Gender Spectrum Collection & Unsplash While the theme of this issue of HeartCore is sustainability, I wanted to tackle this subject through a different approach. Away from sustainability’s more common interpretations of fighting global warming towards something personal. At its core, the word sustain means “to provide what is[…]
Category: Magazines
Weathering the Storm: How LGBTI+ Community Can Help the Fight for Climate Justice
Text and photos by Ellen Taylor The rain is getting heavier. Up on the hillside, the inhabitants glance at the water-streaked windows and rush to shut them before settling back down. Perhaps they’ll even be pleased, peering out at the garden, warm drink in hand (“it will do wonders for the flowers!”). Or perhaps they’ll[…]
40 years of AIDS: The AIDS Foundation to publish book of personal stories
By Andy Grysbæk This year, 40 years have passed since the AIDS epidemic hit. Furthermore, it is 25 years since an effective treatment was discovered, meaning that an HIV diagnosis was no longer a death sentence. To mark the occasion, the AIDS Foundation is releasing the book 40 years of AIDS: Personal Stories on December[…]
CULTURE @ WINTER PRIDE WEEK 2022
For this year’s WPW, Copenhagen Pride’s Culture Group is proud to present: Pride Night Live (PNL) PNL will be live-streamed and presented in front of a live studio audience – directly from our own studio in Huset-KBH! We’ll have a variety of live features ranging from music, performance, interviews – and so much more. Check[…]
Editorial – The HeartCore spirit
Welcome once again to HeartCore – The Official Copenhagen Pride Magazine! We have made it to the other side of the magnificent event Copenhagen 2021, and with the autumn cold and darkness upon us we have decided to look inside, into the SPIRIT of our community, with this edition’s theme. In the original rainbow flag,[…]
Eating the Rich: An Origin Story
“Hunger is a feminist issue, just as it is class issue, and that no matter what anyone tries to tell you, it is not your fault that you live in a broken system, and we all have basic human right to eat.” By Lærke Vinther Christiansen We’re here, we’re queer, we are once again asking[…]
Buens Bogcafé in Aalborg: “There is also a book for you.”
Tekst og fotos af Mie Hald I december 2021 slår Buens Bogcafé dørene op for LGBTI+ miljøet, der tydeligt har savnet et samlingspunkt, der ikke er centreret om alkohol. Buens Bogcafé er ikke bare den første LGBTI+ bogcafé i Danmark, men også i Norden, og på den måde kan den spæde café jo også kalde[…]
The Inside Mirror: An introduction to queer meditation
By Hendrik FischerIllustrations by Bartek Arobal “It was very clear to me; the earth is queer, it has such a variety of expressions.Earth both brings life, but also decomposes order.” The longing for healing and the longing for this safe space within oneself was also for Bartek the origin of his spiritual journey. On[…]
Ode to queer love
Af Dan Dudkowsk They say it’s softThey say it’s innocentThey say it wouldn’t hurt a fly They say it’s sexyThey say it’s desirableSomething to be sharedSomething to be keptAwaySomething to be let go ofHide it,Don’t show it,Chest forward,Hips backBut, if we listened to themWould we even be existingHiding, every step of the wayTo this purple[…]