Helge Hasselgreen (born 1944)

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Hasselgreen was born and raised in Bergen. He was active in DNF-48 from 1972 until 1978, when he was excluded from the organization.

In the interview, Hasselgreen recounts how he helped organize so-called consciousness-raising groups in Bergen in the early 1970s. Through his involvement in DNF-48, he also briefly served as editor of the internal newsletter Bergensnytt.

He speaks about political activism and the process surrounding the exclusions from the organization. Hasselgreen is now a widower; his husband passed away in 2012, after they had been together since 1974.

In an excerpt from the interview, Hasselgreen discusses the exclusions in the late 1970s and the surprising statement issued by the leadership of AKP-ml, in which homosexuality was described as a deviation and a form of bourgeois decadence—a product of capitalism that would disappear under socialism.

The full interview with Helge Hasselgreen is available in the reading room at Skeivt arkiv. We met him in Bergen, June 2018.