Arne Walderhaug (born 1949)

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Walderhaug began working at the magazine Fritt Fram before founding Blikk in 1990. He was later involved in Skeive Dager, with primary responsibility for EuroPride 2005. He has also served as an international advisor for LLH.

In our interview, Walderhaug shares reflections on his upbringing in Oslo, Namsos, Eidsvold, and Lørenskog. Much of his youth was spent traveling the world.

Since 1980, he has been actively involved in queer organizations. In 1983, he was tasked by DNF-48 with “reviving” the organization’s newspaper, Fritt Fram. The first new issue was published in 1984.

He became the first editor and co-founder of the magazine Blikk in 1990, where he remained until 2001.

From 2007 to 2017, Walderhaug served as an international advisor, overseeing LLH’s collaborative projects in South Asia. Among other roles, he was project manager for a joint initiative between Blue Diamond Society (BDS) in Nepal and LLH, funded by Norad. From May 2013 to May 2014, he was acting Secretary General of HivNorge, an organization he had been employed by since August 2005.

An excerpt from the interview can be viewed below, where Walderhaug recounts the story of how the ferry from Oslo to EuroPride in Copenhagen was completely taken over by gay men.

The full interview is available at Skeivt Arkiv. We met Arne Walderhaug in Oslo, April 2018.