Det queera kulturarvet Kulturarvssektorns arbete med inkludering av hbtqi-personer

Abstract

Since 1979 when homosexuality no longer was classified as an illness the Swedish authorities have been working on increasing the LGBTQ community’s rights and living conditions. How is this work reflected within the Cultural heritage sector, especially since the adoption of Agenda 2030. The purpose and goal of this study is to examine whether the cultural heritage sector actively works to include the LGBTQ perspective in their preservation work by using a quantitative method. Through a document analysis and a survey, it examines this on a national, regional and local level within Östergötland county and its 13 municipalities. The study shows that at a national level there are no specific strategies for working inclusively with an LGBTQ perspective in cultural heritage, however, there is almost always a general level where concepts such as equality, gender equality, inclusion and intersectionality are mentioned. The study also shows that at the regional and local level there are a few actors that have approaches for working inclusively with a specific LGBTQI perspective, but here too there is a clear lack of this, and that this topic does not seem to have been addressed at all in most of their strategies.