First things first: This websites content is created from a subjective perspective. I can’t and don’t pretend to be able to explain the Greenlandic society, eventhough it might be not very huge. I am just a person, who likes to raise questions and is interested in finding answers to them. I like to do that…
Anguteeraq Larssen (17): “My friends already knew and accepted me, before I knew myself that I am gay.”
It is obvious at the first glance that he is standing out. Anguteeraq was always “different”, not even noticing it himself. He was bullied at the public school in his hometown Maniitsoq, some 150km north of Nuuk, but always had his friends (back then and also now mostly females) he could count on. “Then I…
Hans-Christian Lindenhann (29): “People who know me accept me, because they know they can’t change me.”
Being almost 30, Hans-Christian is the oldest man I meet for my story. Finishing school and education in the small town of Aasiaat at the Disko Bay, he had to move to Nuuk in order to develop in his career as a nurse. Doing a further education in the hospital, he quickly realised that he…
Elias Josephsen (27): “I have to go out every weekend!”
I guess he is best described as a devil in a white dress. Elias is real party queen and good known in Nuuk. I could convince myself about it on a lot of occasions, as there are not a lot of clubs in the town. Coming from Maniitsoq (like Anguteeraq), he supported Nuka Bisgaard on…
Aputsiaq Brandt (26): “I would like to have more male friends.”
I meet Aputsiaq on a sunny, but very cold afternoon. He seems to look forward to take a walk with his old friend Muku (meaning “small”), his 11-year-old dog. Although he doesn’t look much “different”, he was teased untill full age. “I never had many friends”, he says, “I am not very social.” A bit…
