A Desviada is a queer social centre in Coia, west of the middle of Vigo, run by open assembly rather than by a committee. It calls itself a space of the community's own, and it is the closest thing the city has to an LGBT+ community centre.
Most of the programme comes from Avante LGBT+ Vigo, the local branch of a Galician LGBTQ+ organisation, which is based here. A typical month holds a reading club, a film screening, board games, a themed dinner, a walk out of the city, and a coming-out café where people talk about exactly the thing the evening is named after. The assemblies that decide all of it are open to anyone who turns up.
The space is still being fitted out, and some of the dates on the calendar are working days where people come to build and paint rather than to attend anything. That tells you what kind of place it is. The entrance is step-free.
The people in this picture are AI-generated.
