Amsterdam Gay Travel Guide

News Archive

• |  1  –  3 August 2008
• Amsterdam Gay Pride:  1 – 3 August. Canal Parade with more than 70 boats along Amstel and Prinsengracht on Saturday afternoon.
• -›  www.weareproud.nl
• -›  www.amsterdampride.nl

• |  2 August 2008
• White Party Amsterdam:  Saturday, 2 August (Pride weekend)
  @ Melkweg (Lijnbaansgracht 234)
• -›  www.whiteparty.eu

• |  2 August 2008
• The Event:  Gay Pride party with DJ Tony Moran (New York) on Saturday, 2 August, 23:00 – 05:00 @ Club Akhnaton (Nieuwezijds Kolk 25)
• -›  www.gaygo.nl

• |  1  –  2 August 2008
• Gay Pride street party:  with international DJ line-up in Amsterdam’s famous gay street Reguliersdwarsstraat. Friday, 1 August, 19:00 – 24:00, and Saturday,
  2 August (after the Canal Parade), 12:00 – 24:00.
• -›  Gay Map Reguliersdwarsstraat
• -›  Picture from previous street party

• |  1 August 2008
• Reflexxx – happy vocal power house:  with Dj Paul Goodyear (Sydney/Barcelona)
  Friday, 1 August, 23:00 – 05:00. 20 € @ Melkweg (Lijnbaansgracht 234)
• -›  www.reflexxx-amsterdam.com

• |  1 August 2008
• Empire:  men only leather party on Friday, 1 August, from 22:00. Door closes at 24:00! Pre-sale: see website (tickets are selling fast; only limited number of tickets available at the door).
  @ Venue Catacomb Studios (Haarlemmerstraat 124 c)
• -›  empire.magix.net

• |  30 July 2008
• Be a good boy:  and go to Church!
  The new cruising club ›Church‹ will open its holy spaces end of July for all men who want to worship the male body. The place (Kerkstraat 52) is already well-known from the popular (z)onderbroek and Ladz parties.
• -›  Address, map of location, and other details
• -›  Read the Mass here

• |  11 July 2008
• XXXLeather Party:  Friday, 11 July
• -›  Details, address and map of location

• |  21 June 2008
• Mirrorball:  with RuPaul live on stage. Saturday, 21 June, 23:00 – 05:00
  @ Marcanti (Jan van Galenstraat 6-10)
• -›  www.mirrorballparty.com

• |  13 June 2008
• Artlaunch & Unk present House Galore:  Friday, 13 June, 23:00 – 05:00. Entrance 10 €.
• -›  Details, address and map of location

• |    –  5 May 2008
• Art Nouveau exhibition @ Hermitage Amsterdam:  13 October 2007 – 5 May 2008, daily 10:00 – 17:00. This exhibition presents the Art Nouveau collection in the Hermitage in St Petersburg. Amongst the major works are the gifts to the last Russian tsars made by French diplomats in their search for allies against Germany at the end of the 19th century.
• -›  www.hermitage.nl

• |  3 May 2008
• Playgrounds:  the gay fetish party at the Queensday + Leatherpride weekend, Saturday, 3 May 2008. Entrance 35–42 €
• -›  www.leatherpride.nl

• |  30 April 2008
• Queen’s Day Amsterdam:  The Queen’s Day (›Koninginnedag‹) on April 30 is a national holiday in the Netherlands, originally as a celebration of the birthday of former Queen Juliana. In the last years Queen’s Day became more of a huge open air event with one to two million visitors in Amsterdam. And there are as well lots of parties in bars and clubs in the night before Queen’s Day and at the following weekend.
• -›  Gay Party Agenda for Tuesday, 29 April – Sunday, 4 May

• |  26 April 2008
• DTPM Amsterdam:  opening party of the Queen’s Day week.
  Saturday, 26 April, 23:00 – 05:00. 12.50–17.50 € @ Odeon (Singel 460)
• -›  Tickets

• |  21 March 2008
• Cruise Control –  queerparty électronique:  The queer party import from Utrecht in Amsterdam on Friday, 21 March, 22:00 – 03:00. 3.50 €.
  @ Vrankrijk (Spuistraat 216)
• -›  www.cruisecontrol.nu

• |  16 March 2008
• New Sunday T Dance:  Latin Fuego T-Dance with Happy Brazilian sounds by DJ Glaucio Duarte. Every 3rd Sunday of the month, from 19:00 till 01:00 @ Club CHI (Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 161)
• -›  Latin Fuego T-Dance Agenda

• |    –  20 January 2008
• ›Barcelona 1900‹ exhibition @ Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam: 
  21 September 2007 – 20 January 2008.
  ›This exhibition celebrates the astonishing transformation of this vibrant city between 1880 and 1909. In this period Barcelona underwent an impressive architectural development and flourished socially and artistically. All the leading artists of that period – Pablo Picasso, Isidre Nonell, Santiago Rusiñol, Alexandre de Riquer and Ramon Casas – as well as the architects – Antoni Gaudí, Lluís Domènech i Montaner and Josep Puig i Cadafalch – whose legacy is still so powerful, are represented.‹
• -›  www.vangoghmuseum.nl

• |    –  13 January 2008
• Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms:  Exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam from 12 October 2007 till 13 January 2008.
• -›  www.stedelijk.nl

• |  3 November 2007
• n8 – Amsterdam’s Long Night of Museums:  Saturday, 3 November.
  From 19:00 till 02:00, 42 museums and institutions open their doors and organize special events. Although the event focuses on a Dutch audience, there is plenty to see and do for non-Dutch speakers, too.
• -›  n8.nl/2007/english/
• -›  Concept and background of the Long Night of Museums

• |  1 July 2007
• Genesis in Amsterdam:  1 July 2007 at Amsterdam Arena.
• -›  www.genesis-music.com