Queer Varna is the city's LGBTI+ foundation and the first organisation in Varna set up to work for queer rights. It grew out of a meeting in early 2024 and was registered as a foundation later the same year.
Its best known project is Varna Queer Fest, which began as one day of literature, drag, music and art for a couple of hundred people and now runs across a month and several venues. Through the rest of the year the foundation holds community gatherings, board game evenings, film screenings, workshops and psychological support groups, and it takes public positions on Bulgarian legislation that affects queer people.
The foundation has no venue of its own. Its events happen at partner bars, clubs, teahouses and cultural spaces around the city, which is also how most of Varna's queer nightlife exists at all.
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