Our first six months 2024: What we’ve been up to

Events in person

CSD Düsseldorf 2024
1. track with balloons in all the newspapers and media
2. more than 100 people joining us for the Parade
3. first time with stand; on stage Dusselqueers
4. Group of volunteers (around 20) and 2100€ raised from 34 donations
Dutch Weekend: 23 people joined
Central Events
- TGIF average twenty people per event
- Our two year TGIF anniversary
- Games evening: Up to 30 people each month
Smaller Events: Movie nights, dinners, going out, sports: badminton, running
Joining External Events: Social Melting Pot, QZD, Afterwork Proudr,…
Number of events growing from 3 a week to up to 8 events per week lately, some of them in parallel to cover different interest

47 WhatsApp chats: some of them new: Gardening, spirituality, DIY, Fleamarket, dancing
610 members in our Whatsapp chats
New WhatsApp community for Events.

connection and events with other LGBTQ groups in Düsseldorf: CSD (podcast), Aidshilfe (asylum, HIV), QZD (brunch), LSBTQ Forum, Puls (political event), Phoenix (Düsselcup), dancing, AWO (cooking), Proudr (afterwork)
in other cities
- Cologne (22 chats, 177 members, one event/month)
- Essen (one chat, 55 members, one event/month)
Social media
- Instagram: 1700 followers (+20%): 3-4 stories a week, 1 post per week
- Website: new welcoming layout blog post, shop, impressum
- Podcast in YouTube & Spotify: Radio show with Kalle Walle
- Others: new LinkedIn account, Facebook group
As an association
- registered as nonprofit organization (Feb’24); bank account
- postcards, beach flag, new mugs; funding concepts

Use our voice to speak up against injustice, racism, xenophobia and hate speech

Queer rights in Europe: event with Puls and Jungenrind. Article from Ahmed
Let’s talk politics with Ilayda, speaker for Equality and Women’s group in NRW parliament
Participation in demo against AfD. Düsseldorf March’24
Helping individual cases: Asylum seekers, HIV in Dubai in collaboration with
Aidshilfe; hate incident in U-bahn