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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

They have a local music act at the opening of the 8Th European Geographies of Sexuality Conference in Maribor!

João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

“Viking was the subject of a widely publicised, positive article in the German Saarbrücker Zeitung in December. Excerpts from the article were later published in the Swiss gay magazine Club 68 and let to an agreement for closer cooperation between Club 68 and Viking.”

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Two months later, in March 1970, and having learnt about the news story in the regional German newspaper thanks to the Swiss magazine Club 68 having approached them to establish contact, Viking reported on the German article to its Swedish readers. ⬇️

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Having learnt about Viking through the news story in that regional German newspaper, Club 68 “immediately contacted Viking…in the hope of becoming good friends.” ⬇️

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

One month later, in January 1970, the Swiss homophile magazine Club 68 reported on the Saarbrücker Zeitung’s news about of the launch of Viking, and reproduced the text in full. ⬇️

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

“Not throughout the whole of the North, but in Sweden and Denmark, taboos—especially erotic and sexual ones—are being broken down, step by step and bit by bit […]. The first issue of Viking has just been published—a new, ‘progressive’ newspaper for homosexuals” […] ⬇️

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The launch of Viking would be picked up by the Saarbrücker Zeitung, a regional German newspaper, the following month, on the 4th of December 1969, in a short news story titled “More Enlightenment and Information.” ⬇️

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

November 1969 saw the publication of the first issue of Viking—the Swedish gay magazine published in Denmark, which would then start being published in Sweden after 1971 under the title Revolt. (1969 had been the year when Denmark decriminalised porn; 1971, the year the same happened in Sweden). ⬇️

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I can’t believe I’ve just heard about the University of Exeter campus being built in Egypt while, in Devon, 500+ staff are at risk of redundancy. It’s giving farce this time around.

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Back to my postwar gay magazine archive, where dick picks used to share space with political education and consciousness raising.

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

This is the calibre of the people who run UK universities as corporate entities. More here, if you’d like a list of who’s destroying the University of Exeter from within: www.exeter.ac.uk/about/govern...

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Just heard about the 200 redundancies announced by my previous employer, the University of Exeter. 170 of those are in Humanities and Social Sciences. This is what happens in a country with the collapsing HE funding system with VCs-cum-CEOs on £300k salaries+bonuses and corporate governing bodies.

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Midsummer Eve is for strawberries

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Waiting for my parents to land in Stockholm with two baguettes, drinks, and Swedish pastries, because in Portugal we don’t say “nice to see you!”, we say “have you eaten?”.

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Name-checked by the likely future far-right PM of the United Kingdom promising to sink the island once he gets elected.

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Charlotte keeps on re-releasing her most popular single even though it is now 3 years old! C’mon Charlotte, you can write a new song if you put your mind to it!

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Really generous and attentive review of CROSSINGS just out in GLQ. Thank you, Connor!

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

🚨CFP🚨 “Visual Cultures of Sexuality in Postwar Europe” (Birmingham City University, 19-20 May, 2027)

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Damn, that’s a superb album cover!

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

It looks like Sweden is going to say “hejdå” to the current conservative coalition government and “välkomna” to a progressive coalition at the September general election! 🎉

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Listening to @badgayspod.bsky.social’s Mandelson: A Homosexual History is work for this professional homosexual.

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Happy 50th anniversary of the Portuguese Constitution of 1976, which the far-right has been gagging to re-write. If there was a time to truly get being this fundamental text, protect it, and work towards its ambitions, that time is now.

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

She’s gonna be in Bergamo in April and she’s gonna get sassy.

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Live-streaming today, 12:15 CET, from @liu.se vimeo.com/event/5628215

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

C CFP for EGSC2026 🚨 Rieke and Jay invited to be on their panel. Wanna join us in Maribor?

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Went to my local boy aquarium today!

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Coming up on the 3rd of March, and you can watch it via livestream here vimeo.com/event/5628215

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

The French death drive won American Jesus. Brace yourselves; Trump is gonna invade Europe.

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Ok. Britain is clearly a country desperate to cling on to something

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Ottawa: a talk was given to a really engaged audience, a PhD on chemsex was examined, great food and cocktails were had, friends old and new were met, and came back to Europe with a page of Jean Cocteau’s 1923 Dessins, and two C-prints of Eve Fowler’s series Hustlers (1993-1998). 🥵🥵

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Guys, it’s very cold in Ottawa and people ice skate on the river.0 p

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Packing for Canada and no homophobic -20°C will stop me from wearing a few thirsty fag looks! Come see it for yourself, Ottawa! 😈👀🍆

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

If anyone ever writes anything rebuttal of my work like this I will leave the room quietly before I lose any dignity I may have left. 😬🤪

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Thank you Glasgow, thank you @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social! You’ve been amazing! 🖤

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Who’s in Glasgow on Friday and gonna invite me for a deep-fried mars bar, please? 😉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Do me a favour and hear @reproutopia.bsky.social out! 🖤 doi.org/10.1353/sor....

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

This was first delivered last year to someone not at my old Exeter address but on the same street. They looked me up and called the Uni of Exeter, my previous employer, to tell them they had a parcel for me. Exeter then contacted me and I got an ex-colleague to pick it up & post it to me in Sweden.🤣

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I was re-reading Guattari’s The Three Ecologies, written in 1989, and found this incredibly prescient passage about the DJT

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Hi London! Sharing this on behalf of a colleague.

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

O Canada! (Come hang out in Ottawa next month!)

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Not a documentary about the history of the Portuguese Communist Party on morning TV! ❤️🖤✊☭

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

This is Judith, of whom I’ve just become the godfather. She’s part of a herd of 180 goats owned by a village cooperative near my parents’. They roam the mountain and help manage the vegetation to prevent wild fires. I get free cheeses and an annual walk on the mountain with the herd and shepherds.🐐🥰

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