different people e.V. is the queer centre in Chemnitz, a few streets north of the city centre. Fourteen people founded it in 2002 and it has grown into the address in the city for company, advice, or somewhere to sit that is not a bar.
The house runs as a drop-in with a bar and café corner, and most of what happens there is built around groups: under-20s, over-50s, trans and non-binary meet-ups, women's and men's groups, rainbow families, and a styling and make-up group called Cross&Queer. There is table tennis and volleyball, a pen-and-paper gaming round, karaoke, film evenings, barbecues and day trips.
Alongside the drop-in sits a counselling service that also travels out to the Erzgebirge, Mittelsachsen, the Zwickauer Land and the Vogtland, and an education programme running workshops for schools and youth groups. The centre is an accredited youth welfare provider and is funded in part by the city and by the Saxon justice ministry.
For a visitor it is worth knowing that this is where the queer scene in Chemnitz actually meets. Newcomers are taken as they come, with nothing to explain and no membership needed.
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