De Trut is a queer club in the basement of a former printing machinery factory on the Bilderdijkstraat, and it has been running on the same anti-commercial principle for forty years. Every shift is worked by volunteers. There is no director and decisions are made by consensus among the people doing the work.
The money is the point. Net profits go to Stichting Fonds De Trut, which hands them out as grants to LGBTQIA+ projects around the world. In 2025 the fund awarded just over 87,000 euro. Drinks stay cheap because nobody is taking a cut.
It is not a place you wander into. The door opens for a short window and closes once the room is full, and the queue outside forms well before that. Correspondence is digital only.
The people in this picture are AI-generated.
