AXEL AXGIL 1951 AT A CLUBEVENING

PICTURE BY THE THE SWEDISH "VECKO-JOURNALEN"

THE SWEDISH DELEGATION INCLUDED PAST0R KEJNE

AND THE PURPOSE WAS TO GET SENSATIONAL

PICTURES OF DANCING MEN. THE DANISH POLICE

INCLUDING INSPECTOR JERSILD WERE ALSO PRESENT

WHEN THE BRAVE MEN DANCED FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHERS.

THE PICTURES CAUSED A SENSATION IN SCANDINAVIA.

(NB! Alan Turing went to Norway 1952 the year after on rumours of dancing gay Norwegians. As no Norwegians were "out" then and only one Swede, the most likely origin of the rumour must be above pictures which at first was printed twice in Sweden. The affair reverberated through the Nordic press, the Swedish press went ballistic when they saw an officer dance with a soldier.)

The club-evenings soon became a Copenhagen phenomenon. There were always live music and often prominent artists performing and people came from whole Scandinavia to join the party.

Soon they were held workdays with parties of 5-600 participants to the astonishment of the public, who did not know what to make of it, and the rage of the police chiefs who laid plans for revenge. Owners of City gay bars felt the new big competitor and their costumers stayed away..

Swedish witchhunts in the fifties/Sverige: forfølgelser i 50-tallet:

http://w1.839.telia.com/~u83902598/ace/kejne/kejnefram.htm

På svensk/In Swedish,  forfattet af Annica Elfving

The Pin of F-48

The Entwined Hands
A pin with the emblem of the Danish Forbundet af 1948
Berlin, Schwules Museum (Gay Museum)
The emblem of the Danish Forbundet af 1948, under which the organization's affairs were conducted for
the first year, was publically presented for the first time in Feb.1949 in the second edition of the magazine
"Vennen". The entwined hands under a four-leaf-clover was not merely decoration for the organization's
letterhead.and declarations. It was also available on rings, tie-pins and lapel-pins. In the sixties, in the eyes
of the youth of the scandinavian gay and lesbian movements, it came to symbolize "the little cold hands"
and fell into disrepute.