Sisters

RPG system: LARP
Participants: 6-10 players

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Description

”Blokes fall when life hits, but a sister just keeps on swinging.”
— The columnist Bibinette, 96-magazine (the only queer media of the era in Finland), 1970

Sisters tells the untold stories of feminine gay men in 1960’s Helsinki; their dreams and fantasies, the rivalry between two sisterhoods, moments of oppression, support, and self-acceptance. The femme gays were a heavily discriminated group, even inside the oppressed minority. They were called by the slur “sisters” by other, masculine gay men. For the sisters, femininity wasn’t something they chose; they were born with it. For a man to be feminine was way worse than being gay, and it still is.

The larp consists of a workshop and short scenes. All participants will get a prewritten character as one of the sisters. Alongside telling a historical story, the larp invites participants to reflect and explore their own femininity.

The larp is a fiction based on interviews and historical facts.

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