Antwerp Gay Guide & Map – Bars, Clubs, Cafes

News, Parties & Events in Antwerp

|  10 September 2010
Mezzo Giorno: cruisy gay party with guest DJ Mike Kelly and Jimmy Stokes.
22:00 – 06:00, 10–15 € @ Club De Cinema (Lange Brilstraat 12) [ Map - Mezzo Giorno ]
-›  www.mezzogiorno.be
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|  3  –  11 August 2013
World Outgames Antwerp 2013: the next large world-wide gay & lesbian sports event after the World Outgames 2009 in Copenhagen and the Gay Games 2010 in Cologne. Registration open.
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Video: Promo trailer World Outgames Antwerpen 2013 [open video][close video]

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About Antwerp and its gay life

Antwerp – home of painter Peter Paul Rubens, the Antwerp Six fashion designers, more than 1500 diamond trading companies and half a million residents – has many facets. It can be glamourous and it can be run-down, it can be trashy and it can be sophisticated, it can be grey, gloomy, colourful, arty, ... The same applies to the gay scene in Antwerp.

In the past, the gay main street used to be Van Schoonhovenstraat. Now this area has a rather bad reputation for its old-fashioned bars and its sometimes sad, sometimes trashy atmosphere. Don't judge Antwerp and its gay scene by just that street.

The club Red & Blue, for instance, is famous among gay clubbers from all over Belgium and Netherlands and even from Western Germany and Northern France.

For gay men with a passion for SM and fetish Antwerp has been a top destination for many years, especially because of its flagship club, The Boots.

The gay cafes in Antwerp have a cosmopolitan atmosphere, and the annual Navigaytion party event with 20 DJs on 10 party boats attracts 2000 party animals from all over Europe. The biggest gay event ever in Antwerp, though, has been the EuroGames in July 2007.

Antwerp Gay Maps: Overview, City Centre and Van Schoonhovenstraat