Stowarzyszenie Tęczówka is the LGBT association that holds queer life in Katowice and Upper Silesia together. It organises the city's Equality March.
Most of what it does is support work, and it is free. There is psychological help and legal advice, and a set of groups that meet regularly: one for trans people, one for rainbow families, a general LGBTQIA+ meeting group, a women's group called Babie Kato, and a group for people reconciling faith with being queer. The association also runs Lesbikon, which it describes as the first nationwide congress for queer women in Poland.
The rest is education. Workshops, lectures, teaching material for schools, and work against discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity.
For a visitor this is not a night out, it is the place to ask what is on. The office is in Koszutka, north of the city centre. The association works in Polish, English and German.
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