Copenhagen earns its reputation quietly. The gay scene here is woven into the fabric of a city that has never needed to shout about its liberalism, and the result is something unusually relaxed: bars and clubs scattered across Studiestræde and the inner city, intimate rather than industrial, with a crowd that tends to be mixed, local and entirely unselfconscious. Denmark was the first country in the world to legalise same-sex partnerships, and that history shows not in monuments but in the ease with which queer life is simply lived here. Copenhagen Pride, held each August, draws a substantial crowd but retains the warmth of a city celebration rather than a spectacle.
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