Queer Elders and Pioneers – Rainbow Cities Network

Rainbow Cities Network brings an exhibition to Stoa’s balcony gallery that highlights the history and role models of rainbow rights.

Rainbow Cities Network is an international network of cities that aims to promote equality of the rainbow people in the member cities. Each year, the network selects a theme for a joint photo exhibition, to which each member city can submit one photo.

The 2024 exhibition with the theme Queer Elders and Pioneers highlights the history of rainbow rights and the great importance of role models. Helsinki, which joined the network in 2021, is participating in the exhibition for the second time, this time with a touching portrait.

Photographer Aleksandra Lemke, model Hanna-Maria Huurinainen.