🌈 Unstraight Memories – Lives Lived Outside the Lines

LIVES LIVED OUTSIDE THE LINES

Sergel Torg Outdoor Gallery, Stockholm

July 3 – August 7, 2025

Press Preview: July 3, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

What can a blazer reveal about a life? What can a faded photograph tell us about a city we thought we knew?

Unstraight Memories – Lives Lived Outside the Lines is a new exhibition from The Unstraight Museum. Drawing from our growing archive, it aims to reach a wider audience – and to invite more people to contribute.

This exhibition gives space to stories that have often been pushed aside: everyday, bodily, collective, and resistant memories of queer lives that together sketch out an alternative map of our shared history. Through stories from Stockholm’s narrowest alleys to its grandest boulevards, we uncover a cityscape many have never truly seen.

The exhibition is divided into three rooms:

- The Living Room – stories of queer everyday life and community organizing

- The Dance Floor – exploring body, identity, and movement

- In-Between Spaces – experiences from the borderlands

This is the first time Unstraight Memories is being shown – and we hope it won’t be the last. Want to help make the next version possible? Get in touch and be part of growing this living archive.

The exhibition website

Fotoutställning "Unstraight Stories from Egypt"

Datum: 31 juli - 4 augusti 2024

Presspremiär: 31 juli kl. 12:00 - 17:00

Press: Anmäl er här!

Öppet för allmänheten: Från 31 juli kl1700 - 4 aug 2024

Det är gratis inträde om man anmäler sig här:

https://www.unstraightstories.org/

Plats: Trädgården, Hammarby Slussväg 2, 118 60 Stockholm

Beskrivning: Trädgården och The Unstraight Museum presenterar stolt fotoutställningen "Unstraight Stories from Egypt," en gripande skildring av livet för hbtq-personer i Egypten genom fotografen Dawoods verk. Utställningen ger en intim inblick i det dolda liv som hbtq-personer lever, där de är under konstant hot om arrestering och våld.

Höjdpunkter för pressen:Presspremiär: 31 juli kl. 12:00 - 17:00, med möjlighet att tala med fotografen Dawood som har en unik inblick hur det är att leva som HBTQ-person i mellanöstern.

Öppningsceremoni: 31 juli kl. 17:00. Dawood närvarar och talar om sitt arbete och visionen bakom utställningen.

Möjlighet att prata med researchers: Kontakta pressansvarig för att arrangera intervjuer.

Gratis inträde under Pride: För att göra utställningen tillgänglig för en så stor publik som möjligt.

Auktion av utvalda foton: Foton auktioneras ut på Tradera i samarbete med Regnbågsfonden för att stödja hbtq-communityt i Mellanöstern.För ytterligare information, vänligen kontakta Robin Olsson på presskontakt@unstraightstories.org eller +46735468274.

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Vänliga hälsningar,

Robin Olsson

Pressansvarig

The Unstraight Museum

presskontakt@unstraightstories.org

+46735468274

Strangelfreak: From Private to Public

Some moments in life, you feel like you are part of something greater than you.

Lets just say mine is filled with those, and at the same time | understand my role in this circuitry is of observer and motivator, collecting memories in order to share them with others and; by doing so; allowing them to accept parts of themselves that were hidden inside.( Or were simply too shy to come out)

| must admit that it took me a while to be comfortable with myself, in order to enjoy

sexuality as an experimental field that could connect you with others in endless possibilities.

Not as something depraved and sinful, but as a multi-culti-gender-bender-private-public

celebration of life and its array of possibilities.

Most of my pictures are a combination of sexuality and raw colours mixed with a total lack of

respect for photography rules, meaning that the pictures | take correspond to an intimate,

chaotic, and in my perspective, more natural look at individuals. all pictures are made with

people who have an active part in my life (friends), whom | thank for opening up the window

of their private lives and allowing me to recreate a prejudice free perspective on life.

Luis Pedro de Castro aka Strangelfreak

From Private to Public

Surrounded by sexual content in all media and advertising, I

found a general misuse of the theme, and a blatant pressure to make

others feel inadequate in relation to their bodies, feelings, or

preferences.