Is the Royal Queerdom the way forward ? One major part of our seminar in Werftpfuhl is the discussion about the IUSY festival in Malmö/ Sweden this year. We came up with the idea that we should turn the festival into a truly queer event and thereby make the socialist youth (and the rest of the world) aware of our ideas and our way of life. In smaller committees we worked on questions concerning the content and the promotion of a queer tent in order to achieve a breathtaking success. As we are still in process of collecting ideas, we are only able to give you an overview about what has come to our brains so far and we would like to invite everyone to send us any ideas that you may have.

Content

• creating a place where queer people can meet others gays, lesbians and bisexuals from all over the world and where we can discuss common questions
• encouraging other people, who are still in the closet, to come out
• showing people from numerous other countries as we see ourselves and to make them more familiar with our way of life
• demanding not tolerance but acceptance
• creating a forum for international solidarity within the rainbow community
• encouraging people from other countries to stand up for their rights and to get organised
• seminars on questions like queer - marriage, adoption of children, safer-sex, AIDS and equality
• inviting famous socialist politicians to discuss with us
• whereas some events will be for gays, dykes and bisexual only, we welcome heterosexual people to attend most of our activities

Promotion

• making sure that all IUSY-member organisations are informed that there is going to be a queer tent
• lavish visibility by flying rainbow flags
• colouring the Malmö-Sund pink
• creating a queer-tent logo
• gay-pride parades across the the camp
• making use of the camp-newspaper and producing queer broadcasts
• promoting our events and seminars by spreading flyers
• distributing brochures, hand-outs and condoms
• setting up a shop with rainbow-flag goodies, producing and selling T-Shirts
• appointments of Knights and Dames to the Most Noble Order of the Royal Queerdom
• using pink-triangle stamps to mark people who wish to be recogniseable as fags or dykes
• handing out 5 000 pink or violet balloons to the participants of the IUSY Festival

As mentioned above, we are still in the very process of sorting things out but everyone is more than welcome to join in and don´t hesitate to make splendid proposals and we hope to see you in Malmö.