The RFSL organized an occupation of the National Board of Health and Welfare, the Swedish agency in charge of classifying diseases, in order to push for the change. According to the RFSL website, although homosexuality was legalized in Sweden in 1944, in 1979 it was still classified as a mental illness. RFSL-the Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights-provided the definitive answer. So Outward consulted its favorite Swede, Kristine Bergström (sorry, Anni-Frid Lyngstad!), to conduct more in-depth research, which is to say a Swedish-language Google search. An English-language Google search proved unsatisfactory: The skimpy results all seemed to be variations on the sentences in the tweet.
