New to Norway? Find your queer community and get the answers you need at the ABC seminar 2025

What does it really mean to live openly as a queer person in Norway? How do you build a safe and happy life here? And where do you find people who understand what you're going through?

If you ask yourself these questions, you are Queer World's ABC seminar 2025 something for you.

From Wednesday to Saturday, 25-28 June 2025, Queer World will organise a four-day seminar for Newly arrived queer people who are members of Skeiv Verden. The seminar will be held in Oslo where it will be filled with learning, fellowship and empowerment - completely free for members. 

ATTENTION: Places are limited!

The ABC seminar is designed to meet the real needs of queer asylum seekers and newcomers with minority backgrounds in Norway. The seminar offers a safe, inclusive space where you can:

1. 1. Ask questions about your life, love, health and rights as a queer person in Norway
2. 2. Learn practical tools for safer dating, healthy relationships and self-care
3. 3. Understand the challenges of addiction and how to support yourself and others
4. 4. Meet a supportive community of people with similar experiences

Travel, accommodation, lunch and dinner are covered for anyone travelling from outside Oslo. All you need to do is sign up and turn up.

(Do you live in Western Norway? Don't despair - we're organising an ABC seminar in Bergen in autumn 2025. Registration opens in August).

The ABC seminar is only open to members of Queer World.

Don't worry, becoming a member is easy, and it only costs NOK 100 for a whole year.

As a member, you get access to the ABC seminar and other events, and you support Queer World's important work for queer people with minority backgrounds in Norway. 

Over the course of four days, you'll:

1. 1. Workshops and talks on sexual health, addiction, relationships and community
2. 2. Guidance on the use of dating apps, safe sex and self-care
3. 3. Honest conversations about monogamy, open relationships and intimacy
4. 4. Tools to support a partner or friend struggling with addiction

All participants will be sent a detailed programme and practical information before the seminar starts.

During the seminar, you will meet representatives from some of Norway's most experienced organisations working with queer and marginalised groups:

1. 1. Hivnorge.no - About HIV 
2. 2. Chemfriendly.no - on substance use and sexual health
3. 3. The Olafia Clinic - specialists in sexual health services
4. 4. Health centre for undocumented migrants - Health care for people without residence
5. 5. Nadheim - support for people in sex work or socially vulnerable situations
6. 6. PKI (Patient organisation for gender incongruence) - for people with gender incongruence
7. 7. Sex and Society - Norway's largest centre for sexual and reproductive health

You'll get short presentations and useful information on how these can support you further.