Weekend Party Picks: June 12 - 14

Pride season is truly upon us now, folks, and why spend your money on commercial pinkwashing cash-grab ploys, when you could be supporting queers giving us space to dance together?

• Friday 12.

• Saturday 13.

• Sunday 14.

Friday 12.

4 Years of House of Others

Bulbul

Celebrating four gorgeous years of House of Others this Friday at Bulbul, residents materia Hache and Sky Deep are joined on decks by Qualia Trax and Baltza, bringing the finest house music and warmest underground queer community to a cosy venue.

Girls Town

MAAYA

The classic Berlin lesbian party returns for their June edition — over at MAAYA for a warm poolside dance. Expect a bit of pop, house, afrobeat, hip hop, and a critical sapphic mass.

Saturday 13.

SWEAT

KREUZWERK

Calling all dykes, tr4nnies, f4gs, and gender deviants of good taste —here we have a night of the most excellent house music. On the main Sweat floor Organza, Jana Falcon, James Lotion, and Sparkly Pony. In the Puddle (darkroom) floor the ever-excellent MORT-MOI and Feasting. It's going to be hot, sweet, soft, and genderfucky; the stuff of party dyke dreams.

Honky Donk

Zirkus Mond

There's mischief afoot at Zirkus Mond. A circus tent full of queer clowns is either a nightmare or a dream — the fabulous fools of Honky Donk will convince you it's the latter. A day party full of goofy music, clownery, circus shenanigans, drag, workshops, food and general hullaballoo — and what's more it's a fundraiser for Bulaban Circus; a refugee-led circus and arts initiative in Lebanon.

Hornies

Arkaoda

If you're looking for a cosier queer club night, you can't go wrong with Hornies at arkaoda this Saturday. Chiller bar vibes upstairs, letting loose below, queerdoes everywhere. You've got a lineup stacked with icons of our queer underground scene, inviting you onto a dancefloor traversing electro, techno, EBM, 90s rave, and house.

Hoe__mies x EN1GMA

OXI

There are few finer places in this city to drop some ass than a Hoe_mies dancefloor, trust me there. For this special edition they invite in Madrid's En1gma for a day-into-night party centring QTIBIPOC, women, and femmes, but open to everyone. This lineup is insane folks: Chippy Nonstop, Nene H, Angelboy, Hoe_mies mama Meg10... perfection. Bringing you hip-hop, electro, jersey club, baile funk, and all the good stuff in between.

Garage Girls

Prince Charles

The Garage Girls, our local FLINTA* UKG collective, are back with dream-guests Eris Drew & Octo Octa over at Prince Charles. I have said it before and I'll say it again, one should not miss them B2B for anything short of a medical emergency.

Sunday 14.

Dyketopia

OXI

Clear your calendar, Dyketopia's bringing us a Sunday open-air rave. We're kicking off from noon, so why not come early to chill, peruse the queer market, and let the day warm up with Dyketopia's usual flavours of hard-hitting techno, woven through with latin bass, baile funk, trance and more. As a special treat they've got dance and drag performances by Ceyla, Ken Pollet, and House of Kum to entertain, bemuse, and titillate. It's a dyke utopia; what more can I say?