Mr Gay Sweden is a beauty pageant for gay

Gay

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 Swedes

Sweden

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. The contest is held at Berns

Berns Salonger

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 in Berzelii Park

Berzelii Park

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, in Stockholm

Stockholm

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, Sweden

Sweden

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. It was created by the Swedish gay magazine and Internet

Internet

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 community Qruiser

QX (Swedish magazine)

QX started in 1995 with the aim to create communication platforms for the LGBT-community in Sweden and Scandinavia. It has a circulation about 32,000 copies a month and is the largest magazine of its kind in the region....

in 1999. Since 2005, the winner represents the country at the Mr Gay Europe

Mr Gay Europe

Mr Gay Europe is a male beauty pageant for gay Europeans. It was founded by its President, Morten Rudå and was hosted for the first time in 2005. The competition was held in Oslo, Norway and the winner was Alexander van Kempen from the Netherlands...

 pageant. The winner is traditionally announced by SMS-voting after hot picks by a panel of celebrity judges.

Past winners

• 2011 - Philip Norrman of BSB
• 2010 - Axel Hedqvist
• 2009 - John Eriksson
  John Eriksson
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• 2008 - Cato Carlsson
• 2007 - Joachim Brattfjord Corneliusson
• 2006 - Henrik Lindholm
• 2005 - Erik Berg
• 2004 - Nicklas Ottosson
• 2003 - Jörgen Tenor
• 2002 - Cato Heller
• 2001 - Jonas Hedqvist
• 2000 - Alexander Ervik
• 1999 - Jesper Wallin