Thank God I’m Homo: Gaydar

This is a lesbian road trip through Sweden, about being lesbian in Sweden in 2018. The hosts Alice and Linda are travelling to different places in Sweden to find the answers to questions like: Are people in the countryside more judgmental towards gay people than urban people? Is it possible to see if someone is gay? How was life as a lesbian in the 1950s? In one episode they meet a girl that went from homophobe, to gay and now lives with a man. With a lot of humour, warmth and sometimes seriousness, the hosts try to find out how much tolerance or intolerance there is. The prejudices of the hosts themselves, are revealed in the search. In this episode Alice and Linda, screen and analyse the ‘gaydar’. Is it possible to see if someone is lesbian or not? Or is it just a preconception that all lesbians wear caps and flannelshirts? They create a lesbian scale, from ‘femme’ to ‘butch’. Linda and Alice explain the scale and sort out the stereotypes. They talk about prejudice connected to lesbian couples: is it possible for two feminine women to be a couple or does it have to be one of each; one ‘mannish’ and one ‘girly’? Or a common reaction they have faced: ‘You are too good looking to be gay!’