European Gay Calendar September 2017

Gay LGBT Queer Europe events including Christopher Street Day, CSD, Folsom Europe and more.

From our friends at Bear Riker’s Berlin

Queer Events Europe September

Jan – Mar | Apr – Jun | Jul | Aug | Sept | Oct – Dec

• September
• Sitges Bear Week – B.S.C. It consists of friends with common goals such as solidarity, make new friends, have fun, organize events, outings, games, discussions, etc … And actively promote the cultural, architectural and social heritage of the Vila. Sitges, Spain; Sept 1-11, 2017
• Reading Pride – We work throughout the year to promote equality and to celebrate the very best of the LGBT+ community. This year’s Pride Parade & Festival will be the biggest and best yet – get involved and share your stories of #prideinyou Reading, England; Sept 2, 2017
• Leicester Pride – Leicester Pride is Leicester’s annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) festival, held at the beginning of September But! There’s much more to Leicester Pride than the one-day event and, the festival will span a full nine days with a series of art, culture, sport, music and film events celebrating the great diversity of the LGBT community. Leicester, England; Sept 2, 2017
• Hertfordshire Pride – The Hertfordshire Pride Society is a group of friendly, passionate, creative volunteers from the local lesbian, gay men, bisexual and trans* (LGBT*Q) community and their straight allies. Watford, England; Sept 2, 2017
• CSD HALLE 2017 – In 2009, for the first time in Halle, there was a cooperation between several clubs in Halle, which jointly organized a CSD. Since then the market square has been the place of the street festival – always with good resonance and with good weather in the heart of Halles. Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle; Sept 2, 2017
• Benidorm Gay Pride – The events will be mainly concentrated in the gay village bars. There will be various cultural events. There will be a parade on Saturday and a main stage in the Town Hall square with shows and entertainment. Benidorm, Spain; Sept 4-10, 2017
• Folsom Europe – the fetish lifestyle out-in-the-open. Fetish is something you live, which is deep inside you and makes you excited. Whether it be someone in skin gear, leather, uniform or rubber, it stirs your imagination and makes you go wild. And wild you will be! Sept 6-10, 2017
• Fantasypride – All popular highlights of Fantasypride as ColognePride – Opening, Wet T-shirt contest, cabaret, great evening show and open-end party, of course, it again. Also, of course, all the popular attractions of Phantasialand. Brühl (bei Köln), Germany; Sept 9, 2017
• PiG Berlin – official FOLSOM EUROPE BERLIN event. PiG Berlin: world-famous for its derelict venues and horned-up atmosphere. A sensational dungeon labyrinth, horny outside cruising, and a DJ line-up which will make you go wild. It will stir your imagination! Sept 9, 2017
• CSD DORTMUND 2017 – Slado eV, together with its member associations, is organizing a Christopher Street Day (CSD) – Queer in the area – in the city center of Dortmund. Under the motto “Your scene. Your area. Your CSD – 21 years CSD Dortmund. Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dortmund; Sept 9, 2017
• GAYWIESN – Gay Octoberfest – SPREE LÖWEN in Berlin, Germany – Strapping lads in lederhosen wait in the tent for you. Celebrate with us in a real Wiesenhüttenplatz with Wiesnzelt, wooden benches, stage show & Co. Every Monday you can look forward to a party with Bavarian Gaudi. Sept 11 – Oct 23, 2017
• TranScreen Amsterdam Transgender Film Festival  The TranScreen Amsterdam Transgender Film Festival, for/by transgender people & their allies. TranScreen shows a wide range of transgender-themed films and art. Works that dare challenge and engage with our societies’ views on gender and other issues that intersect with transgender experiences such as identity, race, age, ability, nationality or tradition. YOU + US = TranScreen because we can’t happen without YOU, the audience and the filmmakers. Amsterdam; Sept 14-17, 2017
• PANTERESPORTS 2017 – International Multi-sport Event in Barcelona. Panteres Grogues invites you to join the XI edition of Panteresports, the largest LGTBI competition in South Europe. Barcelona, Spain, Sept 15-17, 2017
• Queer Lisboa / Lisbon Gay and Lesbian Film Festival – Queer Lisboa is the only national festival for the specific purpose of displaying gay-themed movies, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and transsexual, a genus internationally coined as Queer Cinema. Lisbon, Portugal; Sept 15-23, 2017
• CSD WEIMAR 2017 – Together for equal rights! This year, too, we make Weimar’s streets colorful again. Together with you, we show our diversity and stand for acceptance as well as equal rights. Thüringen, Weimar; Sept 16, 2017
• Skeive filmer/Oslo Gay and Lesbian Film Festival – Celebrate its 25th anniversary – Expanding horizons and celebrating diversity through the power of film since 1990. Oslo, Norway; Sept 18-24, 2017
• D’un bord a l’autre – Festival de films gay et lesbiens – In today’s society where homophobia and transphobia are unfortunately still present, the festival is more than ever to be a window on the LGBT world in its greatest diversity. This year, we selected films from the four corners of the planet. Orléans, France; Sept 23-25, 2017
• Cinema Queer International Film Festival – With the support of the Postcode Lottery takes Queer Cinema during the summer of 2014 our work far beyond the borders of Stockholm with a bus cage valstuga! Together with the Right Bus will Cinema Queer like Priscilla Queen of the desert sweep around the country preaching queer issues ahead of elections, a month, ten cities, a thousand possibilities! Sweden The tour starts at Almedalen in early July but made on 23 May for the European elections secretly, we start in Stockholm! Stockholm Sept 27 – Oct 1, 2017
• Grimsby Pride – Creating Equality, Celebrating Diversity in and around North East Lincolnshire. Grimsby, England; TBA
• Queerstreifen Münster – The focus of this year’s “Day of the provincial film” Movie Service Münster.Land and Cinema is based on the motto of Busso Mehring “See, so siehste from” (from the cult film “Alle Jahre wieder”) the portrait. Münster, Germany; TBA
• Tirana Pride – Tirana Pride will be a day of solidarity with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people who because of the historical discrimination encounter many difficulties in their lives. While in the last several years our country has made great legal and social progress towards the acceptance of sexual and gender diversity, the low visibility of LGBT people remains an obstacle to their acceptance in Albanian society. Tirana, Albania; TBA

European Gay Calendar September 2017

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