It aims to foster international collaboration and dialogue, and to offer junior as well as senior researchers an opportunity to publish in both English and the Scandinavian languages.

[1] Lambda Nordica was founded in 1989[2] as a regionally-based[3] Swedish/Nordic cultural journal of homosexuality research aimed at a broader audience, but with close collaboration with the LGBT movements at the time.

Past contributors to We're here include Susan Stryker, Sarah Franklin, Sara Ahmed, Juana María Rodríguez and Paola Bacchetta.

The production of Lambda Nordica has long been supported by Torsten Amundsons Fond under the auspices of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences.

In 2020 the editors-in-chief were Erika Alm and Elisabeth L. Engebretsen, taking over from the previous editors Ulrika Dahl and Jenny Björklund.