Queer COVID Archive: Let’s talk Monkeypox with AIDS Fondet

Coming out of the Celluloid Closet is doing things a little bit different this season. We are collaborating with Cinema Queer, a queer festival in Stockholm, who is behind the Queer Covid Archive. The archive serves to document the experiences of LGBTQIA+ people during the pandemic in different formats, from video, text and even audio - which is where we come in. We have invited people to shared their experiences and thoughts about what the pandemic was like and how it affected different aspects of queer life. On this episode, we have invited Stine Bang, Head of Communication at AIDS Fondet. They are a humanitarian organization that works nationally and internationally to combat HIV and AIDS. They also run Checkpoint, which provides information and testing services for STIs to LGBTQIA+ people. We talk about the similarities between the recent monkeypox outbreak in Denmark and the coronavirus. Find transcripts of this episode in English and Danish and check out the MIX CPH Film Festival program at mixcopenhagen.dk! MIX CPH 2022 runs October 21 - 30, 2022 in Cinemateket and Empire Bio.