The coming week and weekend is a busy one in Reykjavik. Iceland Airwaves music festival kicks off this week as well as Rafwaves electronic music festival so all the music lovers in town will be busy catching up with talented artists performing. And there is a PINK PARTY for all the happy and gay people in town to attend Saturday night, November 3rd, at Skuggabarinn at Hotel Borg, Pósthússtræti 9-11.
Every second Sunday will be men only night at gay venue Kjallarinn on Laugavegur 73. "We aim to create relaxed and laid back social nights for men of all ages where they can mingle and chat and just have a good time" says Isar Logi, one of the organizers but the organizing team includes members from Styrmir (sport organization) and BEARS ON ICE.
Today Yoko Ono will give the Biennial LENNON ONO GRANT FOR PEACE to five activists while celebrating the birthday of John Lennon and his son Sean. LADY GAGA is among the five activists who are to receive the peace award in Reykjavik today and is expected to donate her prize to the Elton John Aids Foundation to support their work combating HIV among disadvantaged youth in the U.S.
A number of foreign same sex couples travel to Iceland every year to get married in a country that allows same sex marriages. When same sex marriage was legalized in Iceland in June 2010 legal differences between heterosexual marriage and same sex marriage (cohabitation as it was called) were eliminated; same sex marriage became fully equal with marriage on all levels.
Pink Iceland, Iceland´s leading LGBT travel agency, has organized number of gay weddings since launching their service and wedding visits are becoming more and more popular every year.
For the second time the Rainbow Reykjavik LGBT winter festival kicks off in Reykjavik, Iceland, January 31st, 2013.
This four day event (January 31st - February 3rd) offers a great mixture of events such as sight seeing tours, visit to the world famous Blue lagoon, city walk, northern light tours and ofcourse some late night partying.
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