The Profile

Basic Stats:

Name: James Söderman

Nationality: Swedish
Spoken languages: Svenska, English and Español.

Year of Birth: 1979
Starsign: Virgo

Lenght: 180cm
Shoesize: 43

What James likes: Literature, Music, Theatre, Friends, and all sort of lurving.
What James dislike: Colonialism, racism, homofobia, sexism, and people who have even never tried it...

Countries James has been in: Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Tunisia, Greece, Gambia, Cyprus, Maldives, Spain, Gibraltar, Morocco, Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, Hungary, Faroes Islands, Slovenia and Turkey.
Countries James has lived in: Sweden, Spain (1998-1999) and Australia (2000-2003).
Next holiday:

Parades James has marched: Stockholm Pride (1999+2003+2005), Mardi Gras (2002+2003), Torshavn Pride 2005
Parades James watched: Europride 98, Mardi Gras 2001

Favorite Drink: Coke/Water
Favorite Alcoholic Drink: Apple Schnapps with lemonade and ice

Favorite Vegetarian Food: Vegetarian Fajitas
Favorite Meat Dish: Pasta with meatballs

Favorite Gift: A thing worth lot of love or full of money

Favorite Townlette on Earth: Torremolinos
Favorite Spot in Sydney: Rushcutter Bay / Bondi Beach
Favorite Spot in Stockholm: Gamla Stan - Söder
Favorite Spot in Göteborg: Nordstan
Favorite Spot in Malmö: Ribban.
Favorite Sites on the Net: Anywhere where there are love and passion

Favorite Stockholmpride 99 memory: The gayact Adore, and da blond singer.
Favorite Pride Week 00 memory:  The fashion show wif I doing a star appearance.
Favorite Mardi Gras 2001 Memory: The golden mile and to be able to share the MG atmosphere with me parents...
Favorite Sexuality/Pride Week 01 memory:  The birth of Hilda Von Afuk, sista of Grethel
Favorite Mardi Gras 2002 Memory: The dramatic opening at the Opera house with thunder as a backdrop.
Favorite Sexuality/Pride Week 02 memory: Walking through the rainbow walk with a heart  filled with pride.
Favorite Gay Games 2002 Memory: The opening ceremony and the beautiful vocals of Jimmy Sommerville
Favorite Mardi Gras 2003 Memory: The guys on bykes... roar! There they went!!
Favorite Sexuality Week 03 memory: The party in the Queerspace at UNSW
Favorite Stockholmpride 03 memory: The performance by Alcazar, especially seeing the pretty Magnus.

Favorite Gymnasie memory: Miss Aadrian and James' Day of Rewards, where we gave our thanks to our fab fanclub.
Favorite Spanish 1998-1999 memory: The tequila-race with James' friend Lisa in Ronda where she in the end had to help him home.
Favorite Karlskrona 1999-2000 memory: The New Year's Eve party... from what James can remember of it...
Favorite Australian 2000-2003 memory: All the early mornings at Stonewall with his friends Davy, Sus, Brucie, Chris and Rog.
Favorite Stockholm 2003 memory: Some very hot nights at Häcktet, with a lucious guy in sight.
Favorite Malmö 2004 Memory: A very International night with Helga Von Afack and lots of sangria.

[DISCLAIMER: James might sound like an alcoholic while reading his favorite memories. But this might not necessarily depict the true state of the business. It is rather an expression of his lust for spending time with his friends.]

Favorite Sydney Drag Queen: Maxi Shield
Favorite Swedish Drag Queen: Babsan
Favorite Transvestite-Transgender-personality: Carlotta / Dame Edna

Favorite Gay Book: Onans bok (Ola Klingberg)
Favorite Lesbian Book: Stjärnor utan svindel (Louise Boije af Gennäs)
Favorite Swedish Book: En komikers uppväxt (Jonas Gardell)
Favorite English Book: The Last of the Savages (Joe McInerney)
Favorite Spanish Book: Un poeta en Nueva Yorka (Federico García Lorca)
Favorite Australian Book: Holding the Man (Timothy Conigrave)

Favorite Author: Jonas Gardell
Favorite Fantasy Author: David Eddings
Favorite Gay Fiction Authors: Armistead Maupin and Neal Drinnan
Favorite Dead Swedish Author: Karin Boye
Favorite Dead American Author: Gertrude Stein
Favorite Dead Spanish Author: Federico García Lorca

Favorite Album: Bedtimes Stories (Madonna)
Favorite Swedish Album: Rhythm and Blonde (Louise Hoffsten)
Favorite Australian Album: Gay Games 2002 (Various Artists)

Favorite Movie: The Empire of the Sun (dir. Spielberg)
Favorite Gay Themed Movie: Beautiful Thing
Favorite Lesbian Themed Movie: If These Walls Could Talk II
Favorite Swedish Movie: Pensionat Oskar
Favorite American Movie: Home for the Holidays (dir. Foster)
Favorite Spanish Movie: Atomica
Favorite Australian Movie: The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert

Favorite Director: Derek Jarman

Favorite Tv-show: Keeping Up the Appearence
Favorite Swedish TV-Show: Nilecity 105.5
Favorite Spanish TV-Show: Furor
Favorite Australian TV-Show: Beauty and the Beast (Yes, it was all for Jan and Carlotta)
Favorite Day Time Soap: The Bold and the Beautiful (hehe I admit it! I did have a crush on Ridge)

Favorite Response: Kelly? Grace Kelly??? [said by someone who otherwise isn't a Kelly.]
Favorite Film Quote: Life's a bitch; now so am I. [Catwoman in Batman]
Favorite Literature Quote: It's important to talk about sex, to define ourselves in a world which has never talked about us or even let us talk about ourselves [Derek Jarman, At Your Own Risk, 1992]