ABSTRACT
In Norway, as in many other places, the assumed narrative has often been that queer individuals flock to cities, and, here, particularly to the biggest city, Oslo. A survey conducted amongst Norwegian homosexuals and bisexuals in 1965–1966 revealed that only one of the approximate 500 respondents lived on a farm, in a sparsely populated area of less than 200 persons. Based at the University of Bergen, Skeivt arkiv is one of four sections in the University Library’s Department of Special Collections, the other three being the Manuscript and Rare Books Collection, the Picture Collection, and the Norwegian Language Collections. In a homosexual urban geography, parks, public toilets, and other spaces which afford public privacy become spaces where the development of queer subcultures, identities, and sexual and social connections can flourish.
