At the beginning of August, Karin Westerlund, Board member of Alzheimer Europe, was invited to the very start of Stockholm Pride Parade 2022 and proudly walked together with RFSL Sweden´s wagon 4 “RFSL Senior”. RFSL is the Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex rights and was started in 1950, making it one of the oldest surviving LGBTQI rights organisations in the world. One of RFSL’s areas of focus is on issues for their “seniors”, older LGBTQI people. Find out more about RFSL’s work with older people: https://www.rfsl.se/en/organisation/senior/
Each year, approximately 5,000 Swedish people take part in the parade in Stockholm, and there are more than 50,000 visitors following the annual two-hour parade through the city. There was a lot of joy, music, dancing and excitement in the air, as this was the first “real” live parade since the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions broke. https://www.stockholmpride.org/en/