15.09.23 – 19.09.23 • Gay Oktoberft Munich | Ignas Tour LGBT

Contents:

• GAY PRI MUNICH (CSD MüNCHEN)
• GAY MUNICH TRAVEL GUI – GERMANY
• GAY MUNICH MUNICH CY GUI
• MUNICH GAY PRI 2024
• MUNICH - SMOPOLAN CY WH A HEART FOR GAYS
• SUMMER THE CY: A GAY MUNICH WEEKEND TRIP
• TOP 11 GAY FRIENDLY HOTELS IN MUNICH
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS MUNICH
• GAY MUNICH
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• GAY PARTI & EVENTS

GAY PRI MUNICH (CSD MüNCHEN)

The LGBTQ* scene Munich has a long history: as well as beg one of the first ci to hold Christopher Street Day celebratns (the German and Swiss equivalent to Gay Pri), the Munich-based polil party Rosa Liste was the first gay and lbian electoral group Europe to take up seats on a lol uncil, the 90s.

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Although there are not as many specifilly gay bars and clubs here as there were the 1980s and '90s, there are several venu the area which always attract a good crowd. Wednday is generally known as “gay day”, when the area is buzzg wh young people and the bar is open for the eveng at the Diversy Café, a queer meetg place for young people and adults aged up to 27. If ’s too by for you there though, you uld try your luck at the Ksar Bar on Müllerstrasse – a pub that always brgs a lot of gay patrons on Wedndays.

For the slightly olr crowd, gay bar Café Nil is a fortable spot which opens at noon and offers a menu featurg simple dish such as schnzel, alongsi s drks offerg.

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Nearby Aroma Kaffeebar hosts the After Work gay night om 6 pm on the first Tuday of every who liv for happy hour and a breakfast of Weißwurst (Bavarian veal ssage) should fely pay a vis to Bar Zur Ferwache. Meanwhile, for great cktails and stylish surroundgs, Holzstrasse gay bar Jenny was a iend of me is sure to imprs.

There are regular Gay Schlager mic parti here, but the venue also draws a crowd for s After-Oktoberft, Easter and Christmas events. Though there are always gay and lbian clubbers here, the venue also holds two monthly events which are pecially geared towards the LGBTQ* scene: Playground and well as the many clubs which are part of Munich's LGBTQ* scene, there are also var regular club nights which take place different venu around the cy.

And of urse, let’s not fet Jenny tanzt, Munich's largt gay party which tak place every few weeks the Oberangertheater or the Isarpost!

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The NY Club is another firm fixture on the gay club scene, as is Munich's only exclively gay club. Jt around the rner you’ll fd the 8below club, which holds gay and lbian parti and is also well-known on the LGBTQ* scene for s '90s parti.

Although is not explicly a gay venue, the club is extremely LGBTQ* you're lookg for lbian club nights, you uld head to DJan Delight, for example – though the crowd here is a ltle olr. Other key events for gay women clu the Amazonas party nights and 8below's regular Uschi Ehorn nights and Pk Heaven parti for very young guts.

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Munich's first Christopher Street Day took place 1980, when a small polil para of 150 gay men and 30 lbian women marched wh plards through the cy before headg to the beer garn at the Chischer Turm (Che Tower) for drks.

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There is the Rosa Win for example, a seri of gay Oktoberft events which tradnally kick off on the first Sunday of the ftival, which is known as Gay Sunday.

On the same day, gay and lbian ftival-goers gather the Bräurosl ftival tent om midday to celebrate together. ) Rosl Montag, which tak place on the first Monday of Oktoberft, is another popular gay and lbian meet-up durg the ftival. Revellers e together aga on the last day of the ftival, meetg at the food unter the Schottenhamel tent to mark the end of Gay Oktoberft.

On Rosenmontag, the Monday before Lent begs, priz are award for the most betiful and elaborate stum at the cy's largt gay Faschg ball. The event is anised by Sub (Schwul Kommunikatns- und Kulturzentm München/Gay Communitns and Cultural Centre Munich), the Munich Lns' Club and the Fom Homosexualät, and tak place the Oberangertheater. The big Faschg party day is Tuday, when gay and lbian partygoers ngregate at the Viktualienmarkt food market to celebrate at the “entrance” to the Glockenbachviertel district – where the Altstadtrg meets Reichenbachstrasse.

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Another highlight of the year is the Pk Christmas gay and lbian Christmas market, where visors n expect to enjoy mulled we, bratwurst and Christmas mic, as well as Schlager mic shows, drag artists and a prosec bar.

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Queer movie night at the Arena cema tak place on the send Wednday of every month, while Mongay at the Cy cema se a gay film screened every Monday. The Unrground Obersendlg is another great venue; 's a fetish club which attracts a somewhat younger crowd, and where parti ually have a motto and a drs Galerie Kunstbehandlung on Müllerstrasse ho a llectn of ntemporary gay art.

For some uniquely Bavarian fun, there’s always the Schwuhplattler, the world’s first homosexual Plattler folk dancg associatn. The highlight of Gay Pri Munich is arguably the credible para, however, the cy also out to play wh a range of other excg LGBTQ-related events and parti.

Gay Munich Travel Gui: Beer, bratwursts, tradnal stum, and sportg ambns – the Bavarian pal Munich as the third-largt German cy has many characteristics for which Germany is famo. The gay movement began to secure a permanent place Munich as early as the 1950s, which of urse was a very posive and progrsive velopment not only for gay men but also for the entire LGBTQ+ muny. Everythg you need to know for a Munich gay cy trip to the Bavarian pal n be found this Munich travel gui for a uple of men travelg!

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The cy then transforms to a te wter wonrland wh the Pk Christmas Market for gays and the LGBTQ+ muny as well as the largt Christmas market, the ‘Munich Christkdlmarkt‘. In sprg, wh the first rays of sunshe, Munich turns to a popular travel statn for lbian, gay, and queer travelers. Gay-iendly tennci go back to the 1950s, and th to a time when same-sex behavr was still punishable by law.

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One of the most famo figureheads of gay life Munich was Freddie Mercury, -founr, poser, and lead sger of the band Queen, who lived Munich’s Glockenbackviertel for about six years.

The muny tablished var bars, clubs, and parti the cy, pecially gayborhood Glockenbachviertel. Proudly wavg the rabow flag as a gay uple on the rooftop of the Olympic Stadium om 1972 ©.

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Probably the bt-known gay and queer tablishment Munich, the bar, rtrant, hotel, and gay sna named ‘Dtsche Eiche’, beme creasgly important the early 1970s.

Munich today is still one of the LGBTQ+ and gay-iendlit ci Germany, not only thanks to s numero lotns but also through social projects that support the young queer generatn.