Love conquers all – Jónína Leósdóttir & Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir at Göteborg Book Fair
Jónína Leósdóttir and her wife Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, former Prime minister of Iceland, at Göteborg Book Fair, Thursday 24/9 at 17.00-17.45 in K2.
Jónína Leósdóttir and her wife Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, former Prime minister of Iceland at Göteborg Book Fair, Thursday 24/9 at 17.00-17.45 in K2.
Love conquers all
About the program:
Coming out as a gay is hardly an attention-grabber these days in Iceland, where civil union have been legal since 1996 and where marriage law is gender neautral since 2010. But when Jónína Leósdóttir and Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir were married in 2010, it did make the world news. Sigurðardóttir became the world‘s first openly gay Prime minister. When they first met back in 1983, they were both married with children and had never experienced a love affair with another woman. For a long time they kept their relationship secret, due to prejudice in society. Now, journalist, writer and playwright, Jónína Leósdóttir has written a tell-all book, Jóhanna and I, about their life and marriage. Meet them in conversation with Yukiko Duke, editor of literature magazine Vi läser.
Time & Place: Thursday, September 24 at 17.00-17.45 in K2.
