Salzburg has a well-established and active LGBTI scene. Regular parties like the HOSI-Fest, the Salzburg Pride, the Pride Boat and many other events are highlights of the scene’s annual calendar. And the scene bars are of course there all year round for locals and guests from all over the world. That is queer Salzburg.
20.05.2022 Until 24 June, all buses and trains in the province of Salzburg are free of charge on Fridays. In view of rising energy prices, the campaign is intended to encourage people to try out public transport. Maybe take the trolleybus line 2 to the fetish evening at the HOSI Salzburg this evening? Get off at Stelzhamer Straße. Or to the Narrencastl to the Magic Garage? S-Bahn station Aiglhof. [Read more]
The Magic Garage on Friday and Saturday evening (20.+21.05.) became a happening of a well-mannered Magic Garage crew and a colourful audience. The Magic Garage is Salzburg’s new drag show and a cabaret format that sets a new colour in queer Salzburg. [Read more]
The Long Night of Diversity on Saturday (14.05.) in Salzburg’s trendy shops was great fun and brought life back to Corona. And so we are now looking forward to a summer of carefree queer events. And there are plenty of them – Salzburg is full of them if you look closely. [Read more]
After the vernissage and the crime dinner, Gigi LaPajette will be in Salzburg from Wednesday to make the final preparations for the Long Night of Diversity, the next queer highlight in the city of Mozart. In addition to games of all kinds, this time there will also be a colourful cabaret programme in all four participating shops until early Sunday morning. [Read more]
A new colour in Salzburg’s queer life – the Magic Garage. In a neighbourhood café in Salzburg Lehen, four young people have been attracting attention with their costume and cabaret show for about half a year. Ryder Goodenheart and his colleagues enrich the queer lifestyle in the city on the Salzach with their shows. [Read more]
Today, for once, it wasn’t the gardener, even though he played an alibi-bearing role in Gigi LaPajette’s crime dinner at the Living Room. Salzburg’s drag queen brought a new colour to queer life in Salzburg with this event. A surprising event with a great fun factor. [Read more]
Bishop Arn, Archduke Ludwig Viktor and the explorer Alexander von Humboldt lived in Salzburg, were queer and have left their mark on the beautiful city on the Salzach to this day. The queer city tour with Roman Forisch, which will take place on three fixed dates this summer, will explore these traces. [Read more]
Reginaldo Oliveira, head of ballet at the Salzburg Landestheater, will be telling the story of Einar Wegner alias Lili Elbe, a pioneer of the transgender movement. The theme of this ballet is when body feeling and outward appearance cannot be reconciled and what possibilities we take away from ourselves through classical role patterns. [Read more]
The queer scene is colourful and diverse – also in Salzburg. To celebrate this attitude towards life, the Long Night of Diversity in Salzburg on 14 May is this year’s kick-off for the Austrian Pride season 2022. One night of partying and programme for a good cause, as 100% of the proceeds will go to the Corona-battered HOSI Salzburg. [Read more]
The motto of this year’s Christopher Street Day (Pride) in Salzburg is: “Be visible Schatzi”. In 2021, the visibility of the rainbow was the most important motivation for many participants to take part in the largest pride parade Salzburg has ever seen. The organisers are taking this into account with this year’s motto. [Read more]
In Denmark, almost all Corona restrictions have been lifted today (27.01.). The vaccination rate is very high, the incidence is also high and the situation in the hospitals is relaxed. And in this country? Events are cancelled in rows and we are waiting for a return to normal life. The Danes have it pretty good. [Read more]
A special queer event is coming up in Salzburg from 21 to 23 April 2022. Photographer Elfriede Pöttgen has portrayed 50 protagonists for the visibility of the rainbow in the photo campaign “ICH” (I) and will exhibit the result in a vernissage on 21 April. On 22.04. there will be a Queer Party from 7 p.m. with music and atmosphere by DJane Petra Pan. And on 23 April there will be a get-together of Austrian drag queens at “Crime and Dine”. [Read more]
As a prompt reaction of the city of Salzburg to discriminatory attacks against LGBT people in Austria in recent times, the city has coloured the zebra crossing in front of Mirabell Palace in rainbow colours. A visible sign in a prominent place for the presence of the rainbow community in Salzburg. [Read more]
The Salzburg Gay Guide for the LGBTI community is available as a printed copy from the beginning of August in Brunos Stores in Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne and Munich. Or order it by mail here.
The hill of roses
Great happening in Lehen The Magic Garage on Friday and Saturday evening (20.+21.05.) became a happening of a well-mannered Magic Garage crew and a colourful audience. The Mag...
Salzburg Queer Update 20.05.2022 Until 24 June, all buses and trains in the province of Salzburg are free of charge on Fridays. In view of rising energy prices, the campaig...
The “Magic Garage” is Salzburg’s new drag show A new colour in Salzburg's queer life - the Magic Garage. In a neighbourhood café in Salzburg Lehen, four young people have been attracting attention...
Queer, proud and visible! The motto of this year's Christopher Street Day (Pride) in Salzburg is: "Be visible Schatzi". In 2021, the visibility of the rainbow was the most impo...
