Gay Travel Guide Europe

News & Events for Gay Travellers

Rome | June 26, 2008 till September 20, 2008
Gay Village 2008: Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 26 June – 20 September.
Annual open-air gay summer event with movies, shops, music, performances, parties and more.
Entrance free 20:00 – 21:30, after: on Thursdays 7 € (incl. 1 drink), on Fridays and Saturdays 13 € (incl. 1 drink).
@ Parco del Ninfeo, Via delle 3 Fontane all’Eur (Metro B: Magliana)
-› www.gayvillage.it
-› www.myspace.com/gayvillage

Cologne | July 4, 2008 till July 6, 2008
Cologne Pride weekend: CSD parade on Sunday, 6 July, starting at 12:00.
Street festival 4 – 6 July in the Old Town of Cologne between Alter Markt and Heumarkt
-› www.colognepride.de

London | July 5, 2008
Pride London: Saturday, 5 July.
The parade with this year’s theme ›Fairytales, Myths and Legends‹ departs at 13:00 in Orchard Street, makes its way down Oxford Street and Regent Street to arrive at Trafalgar Square with its main stage for speeches and show program.
-› Parade route map and stage agenda

Cologne | July 5, 2008
COLOUR – huge party at the Gay Pride weekend (CSD): Saturday, 5 July 2008.
More than 10.000 guests expected! For the very first time the Kölnarena (Germany’s biggest concert and event hall) opens its doors for a gay & lesbian mega-event, presented by Cologne’s leading party organizers.
-› www.colour-cologne.com

Madrid | July 11, 2008
Bears retreat in the Madrid mountains: ›From the 11th to 13th July MAD.BEAR will hold its annual week-end combining nature, bears and furry fun in a small rural hotel Los Castaños in Cercedilla in Madrid’s Northern Sierra.‹ (About 50 km north west of Madrid.)
-› www.madbear.org/uk/weekend.shtml

Cologne | July 12, 2008
Kölner Lichter: Huge fireworks with synchronised music along the Rhine river (from a pontoon between the bridges Hohenzollernbrücke and Deutzer Brücke). The spectacle happens on Saturday, 12th of July 2008, from 23:30 to midnight, but it is advisable to go to the left or right bank of the river much earlier to catch a good place.
-› www.koelner-lichter.de (English, French, Dutch and German)
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Sitges | July 16, 2008 till July 20, 2008
International Tango Festival: 16 – 20 July. With a tango orchestra from Buenos Aires and tango dancers and teachers from all over the world.
-› www.tangositges.com

Barcelona | July 25, 2008 till July 27, 2008
Gay Circus Barcelona: masculine acrobatics for a gay-friendly public, ›a spectacle directed to all people without prejudices‹. There are already gay themed works in literature, cinema, theater and ballet, but the first gay themed circus will be shown in Barcelona this summer at the weekend of the gay EuroGames sports event.
The story of the show is ›like a dialogue between angels and devils, the eternal conflict between the Good and the Evil‹, and has numerous references to literature, painting, dance, sculpture, photography and cinema.
Each show can be seen by up to 1000 visitors and is 25–55 € per ticket.
25, 26 and 27 July @ Moll of Barceloneta (Passeig de Joan de Borbó)
-› www.gaycircus.net

London | July 25, 2008 till July 26, 2008
G-A-Y @ Astoria terminates: the last parties of the legendary G-A-Y at the Astoria club will be held on the last weekend of July. Farewell!
-› www.patroc.com/london/clubs.html#g-a-y-london

Stockholm | July 25, 2008 till August 3, 2008
EuroPride 2008 in Stockholm: After the sensational EuroPride 2007 in Madrid the next EuroPride will take place from 25th July till 3rd of August 2008 in Sweden’s capital Stockholm.
-› www.stockholmpride.org
-› Hotel reservations for Stockholm

Barcelona | August 1, 2008 till August 7, 2008
Loveball Barcelona 2008: August 1 – 7.
Seven days & nights of clubbing, culture and art.
-› www.loveball.info

Amsterdam | August 1, 2008 till August 3, 2008
Amsterdam Gay Pride: 1 – 3 August. Canal Parade with more than 70 boats along Amstel and Prinsengracht on Saturday afternoon.
-› www.amsterdampride.nl

Barcelona | August 4, 2008 till August 11, 2008
Circuit Festival: large gay & lesbian clubbing event with 13 parties
from 4th till 11th of August 2008.
-› www.circuitfestival.net

London | August 24, 2008
Naked Zoo: Trade & DTPM join forces again and present this new party on Sunday, 24 August (Bank Holiday weekend). The party starts at the early time of 18:00, so that you can enjoy the sunshine in the garden area of the club.
@ Egg Club (King’s Cross, 200 York Way)
-› nakedzoo.co.uk

London | August 24, 2008 till August 30, 2008
London 2008 World Championships: by the International Gay & Lesbian Football Association (IGLFA). From 24 till 30 August 2008.
-› www.londonwc2008.co.uk

Berlin | September 6, 2008
Folsom Europe in Berlin: Leather & Fetish weekend with Street Fair on Saturday and lots of parties from Friday till Sunday.
-› www.folsomeurope.com

Brussels | September 12, 2008
Brussels Games 2008: 17th international tournament for Badminton, Volleyball, Fitness, Swimming and Tennis. From Friday, 12 September, till Sunday, 14 September. Organized by the ›Brussels Gay Sports‹ club.
-› www.bgs.org/brusselsgames/

Berlin | October 14, 2008 till October 26, 2008
Festival of Lights: For two weeks, famous sights in Berlin such as the TV tower and the Brandenburg Gate will be on stage by means of light, projections, fireworks, and events. Complementary there will be several cultural events dealing with the subject ›light‹.
-› www.city-stiftung-berlin.eu

Madrid | October 30, 2008 till November 9, 2008
LesGaiCineMad – International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Madrid:
30 October – 9 November 2008.
-› www.lesgaicinemad.com

Munich | November 22, 2008
Elton John – The Red Piano: 22 November 2008 @ Olympiahalle München (Spiridon-Louis-Ring 21)
-› Info & Tickets