Arcigay Bari Varichina is the Bari committee of Arcigay, the largest LGBTQIA+ organisation in Italy, and it has been working in the city since 1991. It meets at the Casa delle Donne del Mediterraneo on Piazzetta Sant'Antonio, in the old town.
What it runs is a mix of campaigning and plain sociability. There is a queer book club, game clubs and card and board game tournaments, awareness evenings around World Aids Day that put science and debate together to take apart the myths about HIV, and open planning meetings for anyone who wants to help shape what comes next. When the national festival of Italian rainbow choirs comes to Bari, this is the committee behind it.
For a visitor it is the way into the city's community life rather than its nightlife, and the most reliable place to ask what is actually happening while you are there.
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