Antwerp Gay Travel Guide

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News, Parties & Events in Antwerp

|  15  –  17 June 2012
Propaganda: long party weekend for a polysexual clubbing crowd. With boatparty at the Schelde river, rooftop party at the Lindner hotel, and 3 parties at Antwerp’s gay House club Red & Blue.
-›  www.propagandabelgium.com
|  10  –  12 August 2012
Antwerp Gay Pride 2012: with street festival, parties et al.
-›  www.antwerppride.com
|  31 July  –  11 August 2013
World Outgames 2013: the next large world-wide gay & lesbian sports event in Europe after the World Outgames 2009 in Copenhagen and the Gay Games 2010 in Cologne. This event also includes a cultural festival and an LGBT human rights conference.
-›  world.outgames.org

Video: Promo trailer World Outgames Antwerpen 2013 [open video][close video]

About Antwerp and its gay life

Antwerp – home of painter Peter Paul Rubens, the Antwerp Six fashion designers, more than 1000 diamond trading companies and half a million residents – has many facets. It can be glamourous and it can be run-down, it can be trashy and it can be sophisticated, it can be grey, gloomy, colourful, arty, ... The same applies to the gay scene in Antwerp.

In the past, the gay main street used to be Van Schoonhovenstraat. Now this area has a rather bad reputation and does not play a big role any longer in Antwerp's gay scene.

Antwerp's gay club Red & Blue, in contrast, is famous among gay clubbers from all over Belgium and Netherlands and even from Western Germany and Northern France.

For gay men with a passion for SM and fetish Antwerp has been a top destination for many years, especially because of its flagship club and cruise bar, The Boots.

In 2007, Antwerp hosted the EuroGames sports event, and the city is now preparing for the 3rd World Outgames in summer 2013 – the largest gay and lesbian sports festival in the world after the Gay Games 2010 in Cologne.