Madrid Gay Travel Guide

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• |  11 July 2008
• Bears retreat in the Madrid mountains:  ›From the 11th to 13th July MAD.BEAR will hold its annual week-end combining nature, bears and furry fun in a small rural hotel Los Castaños in Cercedilla in Madrid’s Northern Sierra.‹ (About 50 km north west of Madrid.)
• -›  www.madbear.org/uk/weekend.shtml

• |  6 July 2008
• Into The Tank:  Sunday, 6 July (Gay Pride weekend), 20:00 – 06:30. 25–30 €
  Huge fetish party with very strict dresscode: Leather, Rubber, Military, Uniforms, Skin Outfit, Industrial, Trainers & Sportswear, Naked with Boots Only, Jockstraps.
  Location: ›De Nombre Público‹ (Calle Garcia Molinas 11)
• -›  www.intothetank.org

• |  5 July 2008
• Madrid Gay Pride 2008:  Called ›Madrid Orgullo‹ (’mado’). Saturday, 5 July.
• -›  www.madoweb.com
• -›  orgullo.cogam.es

• |  5 July 2008
• Infinita ’08:  Gay and lesbian music festival. 5 July 2008
  @ Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid (Avenida Felipe II)
• -›  www.infinitamentegay.com

• |  30 April  –  4 May 2008
• Sleazy Madrid:  International Fetish weekend, 30 April – 4 May.
• -›  www.sleazymadrid.com

• |  14 March 2008
• Klubbers Day 2008:  International music festival for Electronica, Dance and Hip-Hop. 90 acts on 4 stages in 12 hours. On Friday and Saturday, 14 – 15 March, doors open 18:00 @ Telefónica Arena Madrid
• -›  www.klubbersday.es

• |  22 September 2007
• La Noche en Blanco Madrid:  part of the European White Nights, an annual free all-night cultural festival. In Madrid on Saturday, 22 September, 21:00 – 07:00.
• -›  www.esmadrid.com/lanocheenblanco/

• |  22 June  –  1 July 2007
• EuroPride 2007:  EuroPride will be in Madrid this year – good choice :-)
  Once a very conservative and repressive country, Spain turned into one of the most tolerant and progressive countries. And now with the Socialist government of Zapatero, Spain got one of the most progressive laws for same-sex partnerships (despite of all the protests of the religious fanatics from the Catholic church:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Spain).
  EuroPride 2007 will take place from 22nd of June till 1st of July.

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• |    –  20 May 2007
• Roy Lichtenstein: de principio a fin:  Pop art exhibition till 20th of May.
  Mon-Sat 11:00 – 20:00, Sun 10:00 – 14:00. Free entrance.
  At Fundación Juan March, Calle de Castelló 77