In case of rain, the event will move indoors to Clubraum Rote Fabrik.

The inner courtyard, Clubraum, Backstein, Fabriktheater, Shedhalle and lakeside path are wheelchair accessible. Unfortunately, access to the lake is not barrier-free. However, we are happy to help with access. If you need support or have any questions, please contact us in advance via queer.bay.day@gmail.com or speak to us on site.

Queer Bay Day is initiated by Clubbüro IG Rote Fabrik and Shedhalle and SLOCH. It is organized in collaboration with LGBTQIA+ initiatives from Zurich and Switzerland. The event is non-commercial and independent of sponsors.

All proceeds from Queer Bay Day will be donated to TSEF – Trans Safety Emergency Fund and Queer Amnesty.

Many thanks to everyone who helps shape the QBD program each year <3

Have some free time to help on Queer Bay Day? We are happy to receive volunteer registrations here 

DJ-Sets & Speeches

14-16h Chaos Angel b2b SO.M

16-18h KA-RABA b2b Isi!

18-20h Endobliss

20h First of August Speech by Elle Bohner (HAZ – Queer Zürich)

20:15-22h soungou

Workshops & Wellness

14-16h Freediving with Sunny at Backstein
16:30-18:30h Quinky Stammtisch* Workshops at Backstein

15-18h Discounted STI testing by Checkpoint Zurich at Clubraum Foyer
19-20h Playfights at Backstein (you can register your fight throughout the day at our info-stand)

Info & Donations

– from 14h info stands and fundraising activities by:

Bisexuell Schweiz

Aro Ace Spektrum Schweiz

Milchjugend

LGBTQIA+ Support Gruppe

Antikapitalistischer CSD

– with solidarity 🤝snacks, games 🎲, crafts, cakes 🍰 and milkshakes! 🥤

Program throughout

Asian Queer Movie Screening at Fabriktheater
Tattoo Corner – Laura & Flu, Queen Aquarium at Shedhalle
Art exhibition ProtoZone20: Ruptures \ Reliances at Shedhalle

Many thanks to everyone who helps shape the QBD program each year <3

Have some free time to help on Queer Bay Day? We are happy to receive volunteer registrations here 

How does loss shape us? How do the afterlives of violence inhabit our words? How do we write amidst the unending piles of horror, mourning, loss, and defeat? What does queer theory fail to offer in the face of terror?

In this session, we seek solace in the healing power of poetry, cherishing the tulips that haunt our intertwined histories. Together, we will cultivate futures that bloom in hands tending to these tulips—symbols of sacrifice, love, home, and our shared vision of liberation.

Through collective acts of reading, humming, listening, and sharing, we hope to unravel, even slightly, the heavy burden of the unmourned. This is the space we wish to create and the attempt we hold close.

BIOS

Niloofar Rasooli is a writer from Iran, with a radical passion about the intersection of anti-colonial queer feminism, erased memories and archives, resistance, rebellion, revolution, and the reclamations of the built and lived environment in Iran and the Global South. Previously, Niloofar worked as journalist, writer, editor and her writing is featured in Women’s Studies Quarterly (forthcoming), gta papers (forthcoming), Kohl: A Journal of Body and Gender Research (forthcoming), International Journal of Islamic Architecture (forthcoming), Harasswatch, trans Magazine, Woz, 1.mai Committee Pamphlet, Koubeh, Etemad, Kargadan, and Abadi, among others. Currently, she is busy writing her doctoral thesis at the Department for History and Theory of Architecture at ETH Zürich.

Sandra Cane is a writer and independent researcher of queer and trans studies. Her works examines radical imagination of futurity as a cultural practice of queering normative narratives of the present. She writes for magazines and digital platforms and collaborates with collectives, independent spaces, and institutions, realizing performances, publications and talks. In 2023 she published her first collection of texts with the Italian publishing house Einaudi. In the academic year 2023/2024 she was guest professor of Gender Studies at University of Klagenfurt, Austria.