Gay Munich (and lbian Munich) - and events

Contents:

• GAY MUNICH (AND LBIAN MUNICH)
• GAY MUNICH TRAVEL GUI – GERMANY
• GAY MUNICH MUNICH CY GUI
• MUNICH GAY PRI
• GAY PRI MUNICH (CSD MüNCHEN)
• GAY MUNICH
• SUMMER THE CY: A GAY MUNICH WEEKEND TRIP
• MUNICH GAY PRI 2024

GAY MUNICH (AND LBIAN MUNICH)

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.

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.

GAY MUNICH TRAVEL GUI – GERMANY

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. 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!

GAY MUNICH MUNICH CY GUI

The NY Club is another firm fixture on the gay club scene, as is Munich's only exclively gay club.

MUNICH GAY PRI

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.

GAY PRI MUNICH (CSD MüNCHEN)

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.

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.

GAY MUNICH

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. 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.

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.

SUMMER THE CY: A GAY MUNICH WEEKEND TRIP

Though Munich’s gay reputatn n’t be pared to other German ci like Cologne and Berl, there seems to be plenty to keep same-sex-preferrg visors by. The Glockenbachviertel district jt south of cy centre is the tradnal gay and lbian hive. There’s a gay rmatn pot (the Schwul Kommunikatns- und Kulturzentm or Sub for short) this area jt near the Sendlger Tor at Müller Strasse 14.

MUNICH GAY PRI 2024

The big blowout on Munich’s gay lendar is the Christopher Street Day celebratns July.

For more tails see the page Munich Christopher Street Day, and for some more shots of the para go here: Munich Gay Pri Para pics. Munich also hosts a gay street party mid-Augt, the Hans-Sachs-Strasse Schwul Strassenft, which draws over 10, 000 people every year. The Münchner Löwen Club (Munich Lns Club) is a big group of gay leather and fetish enthiasts wh a by social lendar cludg meetgs durg Munich’s Starkbierft (Strong Beer Season) and Oktoberft.

And here’s a lk to a map om Patroc of a bunch of gay iendly f, clubs and shops around the Glockenbachviertel. One of Munich’s few unpretent gay jots pulls a cross sectn of the muny om twenty-somethgs to baby boomers.