Anna Mohr (10 July 1944 – 4 May 2020) was a Swedish archaeologist and LGBT+ activist. In January 1995, she and her partner Britt Dahlgren were the first lesbian couple to enter in a

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in Sweden. In May 2020, she died from

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during the

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. She was formerly the chair of EKHO, and worked with

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's Health & HIV group for 20 years. She was one of the activists behind Frigörelsedagen ('liberation day') in Stockholm in the 1970s. The movement eventually grew into

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