Be Fake:
gay party close to Plaça d'Espanya. House and remixes with DJ Julius and Alej Venbrat. Clientele mainly in their twenties and thirties. Many gym bunnies.
Admission: from 15 €
24:00 – 06:00 @ Club M7 (C. Mèxic 7)
Primavera Sound 2022:
huge annual music festival on the north-eastern periphery of Barcelona. In 2022, with Massive Attack and Jeff Mills, amongst many others. @ Parc del Fòrum
Werq The World 2022:
the stars from RuPaul's Drag Race on tour in Barcelona with their new show. @ Sant Jordi Club (Montjuïc, Passeig Olímpic 5-7/C. Pierre de Coubertin)
Barcelona Gay Pride 2022:
the largest Pride event at the Mediterranean Sea.
Big parade on Saturday evening, 25 June, to Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina, where on Friday and Saturday (24 and 25 June) also the Pride Village takes place from 11:00 till 02:00 with many stage shows and other events and activities.
Sant Joan:
the Saint John's Day is one of the most popular feast days in Catalonia, with bonfires and lots of firecrackers, music, dancing and food in the streets and along the beaches in the night before the 24th of June.
For gay travellers Barcelona has been one of the favourite destinations in
Europe for the last decades. The city has this perfect combination
of a warm Mediterranean climate, beaches within and close to the city,
mountains in the hinterland and the culture, nightlife, sights and
infrastructure of an European metropolis.
Among the things that make Barcelona unique are the many fine
examples of Catalan Art Nouveau architecture (Modernisme Català).
Barcelona is also a good place to enjoy the modern design that
had bloomed after the end of the Franco dictatorship in Spain.
As you can see on our gay maps, the center of Barcelona's gay scene is in the
Eixample district
(sometimes called the Gayxample neighborhood, or Gaixample in Catalan)
with most of the gay bars, hotels and shops in Barcelona.
Annual highlights and queer events in Barcelona are
the bears meeting over Easter,
Barcelona Gay Pride in June/July
and the Circuit Festival party weeks in August.
For a day at the beach you can go by car or train from Barcelona to the nearby town of
Sitges
which is quite popular with gay men, especially in August.
But there are also some beaches
within Barcelona:
Platja de Sant Sebastià at the end of the Barceloneta quarter
with a popular, mixed and clothing-optional beach at its right side
and a bit further north Platja de la Mar Bella with a clothing-optional
section that is also quite popular with gays.