Milkshake Festival 2021:
big annual open-air party festival celebrating the diversity of people: gay, straight, trans, thick, thin, small, large, black, white ...
12:00 – 23:00 @ WesterPark
Tropikali Festival 2021:
annual open-air world music festival in the north of Amsterdam. With three parties, including Kalinichta and Rosario. From tropical grooves to Balkan beats and music from all around the world.
Mixed clientele.
13:00 – 23:00 @ NDSM
Amsterdam Dance Event – ADE 2021:
the biggest festival & conference in the world for electronic music. With debates, talks and many events in big and small clubs all over Amsterdam, incl. various gay venues and queer parties.
Museum Night Amsterdam:
From 19:00 till 02:00, about 50 museums and institutions open their doors again for one night and organize special events.
Although the event focuses on a Dutch audience, there is plenty to see and do for non-Dutch speakers, too.
Tickets: approx. 22 €
Koningsdag 2022:
The King's Day (›Koningsdag‹) on April 27 is a national holiday in the Netherlands and a huge open air event with one to two million visitors in Amsterdam and lots of parties in bars and clubs in the nights around King's Day.
Small hotel at the Amstel, very close to the gay bars in Amsterdam's main gay area around Reguliersdwarsstraat & Amstel.
@
Amstel 104
Amsterdam 1017 AD
Tram: Rembrandtplein
About Amsterdam and its gay life
Amsterdam had been a powerful city of maritime trade fame for many centuries.
In the second half of the 20th century it was considered the gay capital of Europe,
due to the beauty of the city and due to the city's liberal atmosphere which was far ahead of most
other European cities and countries at that time.
As our Amsterdam Gay Maps show,
there are several gay areas in Amsterdam, all of them not really far from each other.
First of all you got the street with the unpronounceable name,
Reguliersdwarsstraat,
which is rather mainstream and quite busy at the weekend.
Nearby are the Amstel street and Kerkstraat.
And finally there are
Warmoesstraat and Zeedijk
in the very center of Amsterdam.
As you can see on our
Clubs & Parties
page there aren't many regular gay clubs and parties left in Amsterdam nowadays.
The most popular and crowded parties are those which happen monthly or every few
months. So, if you like dancefloors with hundreds of half-naked sweating guys,
check for the next dates of those irregular parties.
Annual highlights and queer events in Amsterdam are
the LGBTQ film festival Roze Filmdagen in March,
King's Day on the 27th (or 26th) of April,
the Milkshake Festival in July
and the Amsterdam Gay Pride with the canal parade in August.