The Regenbogenhaus is Zurich's queer community centre, on Zollstrasse in Kreis 5 a few minutes from the main station. It runs as an association, describes itself as an open house from the LGBTQ community for everyone, and is barrier-free.
The building is divided into four named rooms: House of Love, House of Color, House of Fluid and House of Books, the last of them a queer library.
The programme is put on partly by the house and partly by the partner organisations that use it, and it changes constantly. A trans meet, a queer co-working day, a welcome café, workshops, group meetings and social evenings all run here, and the agenda on the house's own site is the reliable place to see what is on. A small shop sells flags, pins and bags.
For a visitor this is the easiest way to meet people in Zurich outside a bar, and the one address that will point you at whatever else is happening in the city that week.
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