Party promoters, club collectives, and community organisers making queer nightlife happen.
131 organizers
ADONIS
London
ADONIS is a London queer techno party known for day-long marathons, including 12-hour sessions from morning into night at venues such as The Cause. It also takes its format abroad, with editions alongside Amsterdam's SPIELRAUM at Club RAUM.
AiSOTOPE LOUNGE
Tokyo
AiSOTOPE LOUNGE is the Shinjuku Ni-chōme club behind one of Tokyo's busiest queer party calendars, open most nights from 21:00 until 05:00. The programme runs from J-pop hit nights and vocal house to drag shows and big themed events such as Muscle Beach Tokyo, with anniversary parties that bring guest live acts. Members of dating apps such as 9MONSTERS often get a door discount.
Bà
Hong Kong
Cherry Bomb
Perth
Cherry Bomb is an alternative queer party in Perth, mixing punk, emo and party anthems with drag, burlesque and circus performances. Hosted at Connections Nightclub, its themed editions make room for costumes, emerging performers and playful pop-culture obsessions. A good fit for anyone who wants their queer night out with guitars and a stage show.
Clev
London
Club Are
London
Club Are is a queer day party and audiovisual collective in London that treats each edition like an exhibition — open-air afternoons at Hackney Bridge and late editions at Number 90, with tech house, house and hard house from a rotating cast of queer DJs and visual artists. Expect art installations, a diverse queer crowd and a daytime-into-night format.
Club Rapido
Amsterdam
Club Rapido organises gay dance events in Amsterdam, including Rapido, FunHouse and afterparties. Its programme spans daytime dancing, themed club nights and celebrations around Pride and King's Day. Expect DJ-led parties with elaborate production, with the setting and atmosphere changing between its different event series.
Club RAUM
Amsterdam
COVEN
London
COVEN is a queer nightlife venue in London's Soho, hosting club nights, performances and collaborations with guest collectives. Its programme moves between house, UK garage, R&B, hip-hop, dancehall and Afrobeats, with events celebrating different parts of the queer community. The music and format change with each host, making the individual party listing your best guide.
Dandy
Manchester
Dandy throws alternative queer discos in Manchester and London, mixing indie favourites, alt-pop, hyperpop, disco and rave throwbacks. Its parties welcome a broad queer crowd, friends and allies, with selected editions adding drag cabaret or go-go dancers. Expect familiar anthems alongside less obvious selections, with plenty of room for different tastes and identities.
Den Anden Side
Copenhagen
Opening November 2022, Den Anden Side has set a new standard for club culture in Copenhagen. Located at the city center below one of Denmark's oldest cinemas, the club is a community-based alternative electronic music venue established with the aim of transforming Copenhagen’s nightlife scene and presenting a safer, more inclusive and more responsible way of partying. The greater part of the monthly programmes are curated by a variety of local promoter collectives, spanning from techno, trance, Bass and house music. Each night is different, and often the events have artistic profiles not only limited to sound, but also involving political messages, visuals and art installations. Being an underground electronic music venue, the music profile of the club is leaning towards the harder side of dance music with an emphasis on trance and techno. But however hard the music, the vibe of the club is always cute and the DJ lineups are presented with a playful attitude. Den Anden Side is actually the third chapter in a trilogy of similarly named clubs, the first one being Et Andet Sted that opened back in 2017. Discreetly located in the city outskirts, Et Andet Sted served intimate warehouse vibes for the curious Copenhagen ravers for about a year. In late 2018 Ved Siden Af opened its doors to a mazy basement in the city center and the new club quickly became infamous for wild parties and a strict no-photo policy. By 2022 the creative crew behind the clubs felt that the community had outgrown Ved Siden Af, and that the concept needed a bigger space. The same year Den Anden Side opened its doors. Throughout this history the core values and vision have been the same: To create a safer space for queers, marginalized people and people who just don’t feel that they fit in in most other places; A place where they can express themselves free from judgment or unwanted attention.
DILF
London
DILF is a dance party for daddies, bears, cubs, otters and the men who love them — one of the UK's most talked-about gay nights out since 2015. Weekly Fridays at RAES in London Bridge are the core, with regular editions in Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow, Newcastle, Birmingham, Dundee, Brighton and Edinburgh, plus an annual Gran Canaria trip. Expect house and pop, go-go dancers, a shirts-off crowd of all ages and sizes, and a friendly, flirty room where daddies and admirers mix.
Dissident
London
Doctor Love
Paris
dood's dancefloor
Vancouver
Eau De Cologne
Tbilisi
Elephant
Manila
ESCAPISM
Copenhagen
Escapism is driven by fans of electronic music. Our roots in music, festivals, and events ensure quality bookings and productions. We inject fresh blood into the underground culture of London and Copenhagen with exclusive debuts, rare back-to-back performances, captivating live gigs and extended DJ sets. Our no-photo policy intends to make the dance floor a place to enjoy music, make new connections, and forget time and place. Join our maillist: www.escapismevents.com
Fast & Bi-Furious
London
Fast & Bi-Furious bills itself as London's premiere bisexual rave: a party for bi people and friends at venues such as Dalston Superstore. International guests and local residents play Latin club, R&B and party bangers across tempos, with go-go dancers keeping the energy up.
FATHER FIGURE
New Orleans
Feel It
London
The UK's only queer weekly party with 2 rooms of pleasure and the hottest DJs from around the world. Every Friday at XOYO. Feel It is brought to you by Little Gay Brother and Jodie Harsh. Follow us on Instagram for news, guest list updates and club listings.
Fèmmme Fraîche
London
FETCHTOKYO
Tokyo
FLASH
FLASH★ is a queer club night in Sydney and Melbourne, running in numbered issues at the Kings Cross Hotel and UBQ, with Brisbane editions alongside LAB. Resident and guest DJs, cheeky themes and specials such as FERAL★ keep the dancefloor busy until late.
Flash Cocotte
Paris
Flash Cocotte is a Paris queer party that has made La Machine du Moulin Rouge its playground, with uncompromising lineups, performances that break out in the middle of the club and a freaky, heels-on crowd. Its Pride editions carry the march into the night, in the belief that partying is political.
FLUIDICA
Seoul
FLUSH
Montréal
FLUSH is a Montréal dance party centring lesbians, trans and non-binary people, with residents such as Field Note and guests at venues including Système. Pride editions go big, from line dancing in a pool to vinyl-only sets, with house and techno at the core.
FOMOHOMO
Singapore
Frolic Station
Ho Chi Minh City
Frolic Station is an LGBTQ+ nightlife venue in Ho Chi Minh City, bringing together DJ sets, drag shows, go-go dancers and dance performances. Its programme includes themed weekend parties and late-night sessions, with queer performers at the centre of the entertainment. Expect a mix of dancing and stage action throughout the night.
Furball
New York City
NYC-born bear dance party by DJ Ted Eiel, touring the US — Furball and UNDERBEAR nights at Rockbar NYC, plus stops from Austin to New Orleans and BeefDip in Puerto Vallarta.
Gal Pals
London
Gay Haze
Brussels
GEGEN
Berlin
GEGEN is a Berlin queer party collective bringing together techno, fetish culture and experimental self-expression. Its events combine electronic music with bold looks and a sex-positive atmosphere, with editions in Berlin and beyond. Consent and respect are central to the experience; check each event's dress code before heading out.
Glory
Los Angeles
Glory is a Los Angeles queer house music party series produced by Carbon Creative — big-room productions with live vocalists and house DJs, built for a queer crowd that wants a proper dancefloor rather than a bar with a DJ. Midnight Glory, its December edition at the legendary Catch One, is the biggest show of the year, with Grammy-nominated vocalist HAYLA performing live alongside Matt Suave, Jon London and BUCK/OFF.
GREEN KOMM
Cologne
GreenKomm is a Cologne gay dance party at Club Nachtflug, organised around seasonal editions such as its autumn party and a festive St. Nicholas night at the start of the holiday season. Expect DJs, a sociable crowd and a party that regulars plan their calendars around.
Group Therapy
Copenhagen
Therapeutic safer-space oriented raves in Copenhagen
HE.SHE.THEY.
London
Herrensauna
Berlin
Herrensauna is a Berlin queer techno party founded by DJs MCMLXXXV and CEM, built for a decade as a home for 'the true freaks': bold, transgressive and uncompromising. Alongside Berlin nights such as its Pride party at KREUZWERK, it takes over clubs abroad, from BASEMENT in New York to La Station in Paris and TILLATEC in Amsterdam.
Homoelectric
Manchester
Homoelectric is a Manchester queer party institution that plays 'music for homos, lesbos, the odd hetero and plenty of don't knows'. Its nights mix house, techno and rave with a sweaty, sexy and liberated spirit, and editions now travel to London venues such as M.O.T.
Homostash
London
Homostash is a queer rave crew throwing big, sweaty, multi-room parties in London since 2014 — kinky raves, Pride raves and anniversary all-nighters at Colours Hoxton, with techno, house and disco across up to three rooms and a dress-up, anything-goes crowd. Tickets are cheap and sell fast on OutSavvy, and the nights run from 9:30pm until 3:30am.
Honcho
Pittsburgh
Honcho is a Pittsburgh queer party known for long, multi-room nights that run from sunset to sunrise, with main rooms, dark rooms and outdoor openings. Its Campout weekends are the centrepiece, and it now brings the same long-form approach to New York takeovers, with house and techno as the backbone.
Honey Honey
London
Honey Honey is a queer pop party for bears, cubs, chubs, daddies and their admirers at Electrowerkz in Islington, London. Pop bops and house in the main room, courtyard mingling, a cheeky cruise and a famously friendly, bodies-of-all-sizes crowd. Tickets are sold on Resident Advisor and the Halloween special sells out.
HONEYPOT
Dublin
HORNBKK
Bangkok
HORN is a raw, bunker-style club in the heart of Silom Soi 4, Bangkok. Dedicated to cutting-edge techno, it’s a high-energy queer space open to all—underground, unfiltered, and unapologetically bold.
Horse Meat Disco
London
Horse Meat Disco is a London disco collective with a longstanding Sunday home at Eagle London. Resident and guest DJs connect big disco moments with unexpected finds, taking the dancefloor on a journey through their record collections. It's a place for people who love a good groove and want to keep the weekend going.
Host
Hong Kong
Host is a Hong Kong club night at 宀 Club where a single guest DJ plays all night long, drawn from labels and collectives across Asia and Europe, from Taipei and Singapore to Berlin and Lisbon. House, techno and disco lead, with occasional themed editions such as an underwear night.
Hump Events
Los Angeles
HUMP Events produces themed dance parties across Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego, combining house music with playful ways to dress up, or down. Its programme includes STEAM towel parties and elaborate Halloween editions, with DJs, distinctive dress themes and a flirty atmosphere. Clothing requirements vary by event.
HYPERTRASH
Vienna
HYPERTRASH is a Vienna hyperpop party for people who are 'loud, queer, annoying', playing artists from Charli xcx and Kim Petras to underscores and umru. Nights run at venues such as Flex and Club U, some with free entry, and the collective also hosts fundraisers such as one for Aids Hilfe Wien. Queers and allies welcome.
INFERNO London
London
INFERNO is a London queer party centring trans people, harder electronic sounds and expressive personal style. Its programme includes daytime gatherings, late-night raves and themed celebrations, with lineups kept unannounced. Dressing up is encouraged as a form of expression, while its events make clear that elaborate outfits are an invitation rather than a requirement.
IsBurning
Amsterdam
IsBurning is an Amsterdam queer collective throwing house and techno parties at home and around the world. Created around the desire for a freer queer dancefloor, its events put community and musical discovery first. Lineups are typically kept unannounced, encouraging dancers to arrive for the party rather than a particular headliner.
La Démence
Brussels
La Démence is a Brussels gay party series with an international DJ roster and a calendar of club nights and larger anniversary celebrations. Its events bring together dancing across multiple rooms and a sexually open atmosphere, with darkrooms at selected venues. Anniversary weekends offer several parties across consecutive nights.
Ladyfag
New York City
Ladyfag is the New York nightlife producer behind Battle Hymn, a house-music dance party billed as 'the Gospel According to the Dance Floor', with resident Tedd Patterson and holiday-weekend specials at Rumi. Productions also include large one-off seasonal events, built on dancing, performance and dressing up.
LaRoboterie
Rome
Lecken
Berlin
Lecken is a Berlin queer party built around sweaty, body-first dancefloors and community crossover. Editions often team up with other collectives, such as SLIC Unit, bringing techno and house together with ballroom, bass and diasporic club rhythms at venues including KREUZWERK.
LUST
Paris
MACHO
Vancouver
Mala Junta
Berlin
Mala Junta is a Berlin queer collective at the high-energy end of the techno underground, known for full-venue takeovers with headliners such as Yazzus. Its nights travel widely, from BASEMENT in New York to TILLATEC in Amsterdam and Ankali in Prague.
Mamba Negra
São Paulo
MARICAS
Barcelona
Masterbeat
Los Angeles
Masterbeat produces circuit parties in Los Angeles, anchored by its annual New Year's Eve celebration. Themed events through the year, such as Service Station, keep the same big-room formula: circuit and house DJs, production and a packed, shirts-off dancefloor.
Me siento extraña
Barcelona
Menergy
Paris
Menergy is a Paris gay house party running since 2014, with nights at Gibus Club and guests such as Massimiliano Pagliara playing all night long, from midnight to 6am. House and disco lead the music, and a playroom is open on selected nights.
MERGE
New York City
MERGE is a Brooklyn techno party running since 2021, known for deep, hypnotic sets and ambitious bookings such as an all-night-long from Rrose. Beyond its regular nights it stages Halloween editions and multi-day weekenders, including a collaboration with Minnesota's The Great Beyond festival at Nowadays.
Miaw Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen based promoter team hosting electronic sunday queer parties.
mina
Lisbon
MISMATCH
Singapore
MISSA
Buenos Aires
Monarch
Paris
Monarch is a Paris techno party for creatures of the night: dark, eccentric, free and without taboos, in its own words. Editions such as Pride of Monarch at Carré Montparnasse bring hard, driving techno to a crowd that comes to let go.
MÜLL
San Francisco
PAPI JUICE
New York City
Pawnshop
Taipei
Pawnshop is the new space brought to you by the same team that presented Korner. Consisting of two floors - Pawnshop, which is focused on heavier club sounds and Downbar, an intimate room for uplifting music - the venue focuses on showcasing talent from Asia and beyond. Outside the musical realm, it features a third space, Known, which centers on live performances, workshops and art events.
PAX-ROMANA
Amsterdam
PAX-ROMANA is an Amsterdam queer collective whose club nights run long at venues such as Club RAUM. Beyond the dancefloor it hosts community afternoons with food, art and workshops, and co-presents CODA, a closing ceremony for ADE whose lineup is revealed only after it sells out.
Pegasus
Los Angeles
Pervert
Mexico City
Pervert is a Mexico City queer party collective combining underground electronic music with art, performance and sexual expression. House and techno anchor events that transform changing locations into immersive dance spaces. Its approach embraces different bodies and identities, with a deliberately provocative aesthetic and a strong sense of queer community.
Polyglamorous
San Francisco
POOF DOOF
Sydney
POOF DOOF throws queer dance parties in Melbourne and Sydney, spanning club nights, daytime sessions and large themed raves. Its calendar includes Red Rave and Halloween costume parties, with a focus on DJs, dancing and dressing for the occasion. The format ranges from afternoon gatherings to late-night club takeovers.
Porkroll Party
Philadelphia
Pornceptual
Berlin
Pornceptual, also billed as PRNCPTL, is a Berlin queer art and music collective exploring sexuality through visual work and club experiences. Its international parties combine electronic music with creative fetish looks and a sex-positive atmosphere. Consent, respect and privacy are central, with event-specific dress requirements and a no-photo policy.
Pxssy Palace
London
Pxssy Palace is a London club night and collective centring queer, trans and intersex people of colour. Its parties are built on community care, with clear safer-space policies, and a music mix led by R&B, rap, dancehall and club sounds.
Rabbit's Hole
Singapore
Rabbit's Hole is a Singapore nightlife venue hosting themed dance parties, drag performances and go-go entertainment. Its programme moves between throwback pop, Mandopop, K-pop and R&B, while the Lost Room offers techno and trance on selected nights. Expect different musical moods across the rooms and a playful approach to party themes.
RATHAUS
Dublin
Recon
London
Recon, the fetish social network for men, runs parties under its own name: Recon London at FIRE in Vauxhall, with a pop and house room, a play maze and a second-hand gear shop, plus a fetish cabaret at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern. It also co-hosts takeovers such as Sunday Service, the Folsom Europe closing party at Berlin's Metropol. Fetish dress codes apply.
Rhonda INTL
Los Angeles
Rhonda INTL is a Los Angeles party organiser whose programme stretches from sprawling club takeovers to rooftop dancing in other cities. House, disco and broader electronic sounds run through its bookings, with local and international DJs sharing the bill. Events range from afternoon gatherings to late-night parties with several rooms to explore.
Riot Party
London
Riot Party hosts queer nightlife events in London and other UK cities, combining dancefloors with cabaret and social spaces. Its programme can span Afrobeats, dancehall, R&B and amapiano, alongside independent markets and selected events with monitored play spaces. Check each edition for its mix of music, performances and participation.
Riposte
London
Immerse yourself in the pulsating heart of London's queer scene mixing techno with art at Riposte raves. This boundary-breaking event transforms iconic venues into multi rooms wonderland, featuring over 20 performers, delivering avant-garde acts, immersive theater, and roaming performances. Celebrate gender fuck authenticity in a sex-positive play space. Explore installations with over 10 artists doing working on the space, and creating engaging workshops. And over 10 DJs per event, techno beats reverberating across the multiple dance floors. Riposte isn't just a party – it's a vibrant celebration of unapologetic self-love and the diverse expressions of the queer community, and particularly the most “wtf” side of it. Join the fun!
ROAR Events
Seattle
ROAR Events produces queer dance experiences in Seattle and across North America, from open-air boat parties to club nights. Its programme includes YACHT CLUB, with house-driven daytime dancing, and QTS, a queer trance series led by Farius. Choose between outdoor socials and club sessions built around euphoric electronic music.
ROAST
London
ROAST is a men-only London club night at Electrowerkz for bears, cubs, chubs, muscle men and their admirers, explicitly welcoming trans men. Parties spread across multiple rooms and levels, combining late-night dancing with a large darkroom. Expect a sexually open atmosphere with respect for fellow partygoers at its core.
RUSH Events
Johannesburg
RUSH throws themed dance parties in Johannesburg, from REWIND, a nostalgia night running from 80s synth-pop to 2010s radio anthems, to costume-heavy Halloween editions. Big, singalong tracks and dressing for the theme are the point.
Sapphic Collective
Denver
Sapphic Collective throws parties in Denver that centre sapphics, queers and trans people. Its calendar includes Gays & Ghouls, an annual Halloween party with The Sapphic Social Club spread over three floors, and warehouse nights of techno and house such as The Freaks.
SCSSR
Birmingham
Shoot Your Shot
Glasgow
Shoot Your Shot is a Glasgow queer club night created by DJ and curator Bonzai Bonner. Its parties bring local selectors and international guests to venues including The Berkeley Suite, with an adventurous musical outlook spanning house, Italo, acid and electro. Expect a strong connection to Glasgow's independent club scene.
SMUT
Athens
SMUT is a queer electronic music club in Athens with a programme centred on techno and adventurous club sounds. International guests join local artists for label takeovers, extended sets and collaborations with other queer collectives. Selected events explore fetish and sex-positive themes, so check the individual listing for the night's format.
Snug
Hanoi
Snug is a Vietnam-based queer house and techno party, with Snug Night editions at The Observatory in Ho Chi Minh City. It has brought Amsterdam's IsBurning to Saigon and Manila for Snug...IsBurning, keeping lineups secret in the collective's everyone-is-a-headliner spirit.
So.Gay
New York City
Spectrum Waves
Paris
Spectrum Waves is a Paris queer party collective hosting club nights, open-air sessions and extended gatherings, including events at La Station – Gare des Mines. Its parties centre queer community and freedom of expression, supported by awareness and harm-reduction initiatives. A no-photo, no-video approach helps keep the focus on the people and the dancefloor.
Spice Mixers
Vienna
SPIELRAUM
Amsterdam
SPIELRAUM is Club RAUM's marathon party series in Amsterdam, known for formats that stretch time: 12-hour sessions, weekenders and a 55-hour edition during ADE. It regularly teams up with queer collectives such as IsBurning and ADONIS, including daytime Pride editions.
Sundaylicious
Melbourne
Sundaylicious brings LGBTQIA+ people and their allies together for DJ-led socials and dance parties in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Beginning with Sunday sessions, it now also hosts evening and weekend events. Expect a community-minded mix of music, entertainment and time to catch up with friends or meet someone new.
The Carry Nation
New York City
The Carry Nation is the New York DJ duo of Nita Aviance and Will Automagic, whose parties bring decades of queer dancefloor history to long sets of house and disco. Nights such as They Went On Forever run late at Brooklyn venues including 314 Scholes.
The House of Mince
Sydney
THICK 'N' JUICY
Melbourne
THICK 'N' JUICY organises Australian dance parties for men and their LGBTQIA+ friends, with events in Melbourne and Sydney. DJs, stage performers and go-go dancers feature across its programme, alongside themed celebrations and selected parties with play spaces. The atmosphere is flirty and sociable, with each event offering its own mix of dancing and entertainment.
THROB
Toronto
THROB is a Toronto queer pop party at the Rivoli, 'for the ghouls, gays and theys', with DJs such as Tom Cable and Sophie Jones playing pop, dance, disco and R&B. Tribute nights celebrate a single diva, from Beyoncé to Mariah Carey, and Halloween brings the costumes.
TrophyDad
San Francisco
TrophyDad produces parties that put daddies centre stage, led by PRIME, launched in San Francisco in 2016 with one rule: every go-go dancer is over 50. Around eight events a year include PRIME's Folsom weekend party across both floors of Club Six, the SAILOR party and a Palm Springs Pride edition.
Trough London
London
TROUGH is a Sydney-born queer dance party that brings jocks, bears, hunks, twinks and in-betweeners onto one dancefloor, and Trough London is its UK edition. Expect Berlin-leaning deep house and sexy beats, a shirts-off, body-diverse crowd and a few editions a year rather than a weekly night. Tickets sell through Ticket Tailor; dates appear here as each edition is announced.