Stockholm City goes on with the plans for a LGBTQI monument.
Now the Swedish Democrats welcome the venture – and want to place the monument in Rinkeby.
The plans for a monument to the struggle of the LGBTQI movement are progressing. The project is led by the cultural administration and is developed in collaboration with civil society.
– This has been going on for a long time. The LGBTQI community has wanted to have this, says Cultural Citizen Council Torun Boucher (V).
The initiative took off when the Moderates proposed a statue of Barbro Westerberg. In the referral round, several instances, including RFSL, replied that they would rather see a monument to the movement as a whole.
– I thought this is good, this we should do instead, says Boucher.
SD: “welcomes the proposal”
Stockholm has allocated a total of SEK 4 million in the budget until 2028 for the project. The plan is to let artists, in collaboration with the LGBTQ movement, design the monument. Exactly how it should look and where it should stand is thus not yet determined.
– Civil society should be accommodated and the movement should feel seen. But the artist should still have artistic freedom. Politics should have no opinion, Boucher says.
– It feels more important than ever that this is done. Human rights are being questioned so much in society right now.
Gabriel Kroon is SD’s group leader in Stockholm city. In an email to Expressen he comments on the plans:
“SD welcomes that The Left Party Goes forward with the SD proposal on a new LGBTQI Monument. Now the monument must be placed in the place where the oppression and vulnerability are greatest; Rinkeby Centrum. Thereafter, the public in Rinkeby should be invited to think and vote for different proposals for design. ”
