Jack Aadland (born 1957)

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Aadland was born and raised in Bergen and has lived there intermittently throughout his life. He currently resides in Utsira, Norway’s smallest municipality, where he serves as Head of Health and Care Services.

In the interview, Aadland talks about growing up in Bergen and how, at the age of nineteen, he dared to attend a party at Ranhuset for the first time. Coming into contact with a queer community marked a turning point for him, and he met people there who would become lifelong friends.

He later trained as a psychiatric social educator. For a period, he was also active in DNF-48 during the 1970s and 1980s.

In an excerpt from the interview, he reflects on his experiences of being a gay man in a small place like Utsira, where he now lives for the second time.

The full interview is available in the reading room of the Queer Archive. We met Jack Aadland in Bergen, October 2018.