diverse people with experiences of racism and migration
English
About us
Who are we?
Beyond Color is a group of Black, Indigenous & POC LGBTQIA+ identifying persons with experiences of Racism, Discrimination and migration background in Munich.
This group hopes to reconstruct the queer scene in Europe to one of consciousness and inclusivity for Black, Indigenous and POC persons and their experiences. We educate the public and create spaces for our community. We are working towards a decolonized Europe.
Beyond Color is engaged in anti discrimination, anti violence and empowerment work for LGBTQIA+ persons with a history of migration, racism and all forms of discrimination.
How are we doing this?
We hold workshops, talks and lectures, organize parties, performances, demonstrations and conventions in Europe.
What does 'Black & POC LGBTQIA+' mean?
Beyond Color is organized by people who self identify as both LGBTQIA+ and Black, Indigenous or POC. Queers, Intersex, Bisexual, Pansexual, Transgender, Transexual, Lesbian, Gay, Dykes, Kuchus, Faggots, Gender queer, non-binary, Gender variant or non conforming, Femme, Butch, Asexual, Demisexual or Grey sexual, Two spirit, Undefined, Questioning and those who are descendant from anywhere in Africa, Asia, the middle east, indigenous people of Australasia, the Americas, the Carribean, Indian Pacific, Roma, Sinti and people of mixed ancestry/origin.
This doesn't include either descendants of Europeans who migrated to Africa, Asia or the Americas for occupational/colonial reasons or white European migrants.
Our group includes people with varied ancestry, origins, ethnicity and sexual-gender identities.
This definition of POC is based on experiences and reflects our realities in an European context.
Team
Manuel
Manuel Ricardo Garcia, native american+mexican/german FTM & Trans*+ & architect. "Mexicans don't need permission from white colonists & I dance to the beat of a different drum!"
Luna
„I am Luna, my roots are from Chile and Italy. Due to the former dictatorship my grandpa is a former political prisoner and went into exile to Germany. Although I love women, it is my strong believe that love knows no borders, not of genders and not of countries...“
Paul
I'm Paul from Uganda: „you are perfect just the way you are“.
Riya
Riya is from East Africa, from Eritrea. I'm an artist and just queer. My Motto: be queer, be gay, be both
or other, but be you.
Simo
Simo from morocco. Disc jockey (Black and R'nB, Deep, oriental, latin and african House, oriental Pop).
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Sheila
Sheila is an androgyne Kenyan. She's an actor, lover of dance and silent moments. Call me the Quing.
Paul
English-German translator and accomplice.
Kakande
Kakande Cameron is a Ugandan Gay/Sex worker and HIV activist who is so passionate about positive living literacy empowerment for People living with HIV.
He strongly believes in community engagement and thus his favorite quote “Nothing about us without us”
Sebastian
Sebastian Ritter Choquehuanca, peruanisch/deutsch queerer Klimaaktivist. "No hay justicia ambiental sin justicia de género."
Mevsim
From Istanbul, Turkey. I'm a scholar and artist navigating logic, emotion, spirit and the human condition.
I am kinda genderless/non-binary and gender-fluid when I think it's funny. Queer and here nonetheless.
Ashwinraj
Antiracist activist and sustsinable engineer from India.
Nancy
Nancy , with roots from Ivory Coast. "We need more queer bipoc representation."
Events
2017
July: CSD - participation at the Munich pride march
2018
May: Transcendence - a critical resistance - panel discussion, Sub e.V. Munich
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July: CSD - participation at the Cologne pride march
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July: CSD - participation at the Munich pride march
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September: racism & queer community – lecture, self-help center Munich
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October: Self-defense course for people of color, Sub e.V. Munich.
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December: Qultur festival – workshops, performances, exhibition, live music & party, Kafe Marat Munich
2019
April: posing through oppression – lecture about vouging culture, Get Rid party Munich
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July: CSD - participation at the Cologne pride march
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July: queer and now / from stonewall to queertopia! - festival workshops, performances & party, theater Kammerspiele Munich
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October: trans*activism in Mexico - performance & life interview, aids support Munich
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November: whitewashing in film – workshop & panel discussion, queerfilmfest Munich.
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December: Qultur festival - performances, live music & party, Kammerspiele München.
2020
January: I am dancing to the beat of a different drum – native american lecture, academie of art Munich
August: queere Künstlerinnen of color, Verhandlungen von Desidentifikation, Unarchiving und Überleben im deutschen Kontext - lecture by Dr. Rena Onat, Diversity Munich
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October: Beyond Color Retreat La Bassa Mar Barcelona
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November: different experiance still painful – lecture with Manuel Garcia & Sheilla Achieng, Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin
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November: it is still painful in your space – lecture about transphobia & racism in FLINTA* spaces, Glockenbachwerkstatt Munich
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November: different experiance still painful – lecture with Manuel Garcia & Sheilla Achieng, Aidshilfe Saarbrücken
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December: dinner in red – celebration of life dinner commemorating, world aids day in cooperation with Plus, Bellevue Munich
2023
May: IDAHOBIT - speach by Cameron Kakande, CSD Orga Munich
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July: Klima.gerecht.machen Multiplikator*innen – workshop Luna Vida Gaetel & Sebastian Ritter Choquehuanca, Villa K, Pöcking
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July: Trans Muslim & Trans of Color Dialog – live talk Manuel Garcia & Leyla Jagiella, Rathaus Munich
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September: 50 anos del golpe militar en Chile, todavia vivimos Chile – live interview with Alvaro Vidal Perez, Kafe Marat Munich
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October: Klimaherbst München Opening Panel „fair enough - about climate justice“ – Manuel Garcia on stage, Kunstlabor2 Munich
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October: Community Werkstatt Bundesverband Trans* - Empowerment workshop for BI_POC & Intersectional dialog with Ria Heyab & Manuel Garcia, Pavillon Hannover
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October: las muertas de Chihuahua – live interview with Daniela Salas & Manuel Garcia, Bellevue Munich
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October: No hay justicia ambiental sin justicia de genero – lecture about queer feminist perspective on climate justice: Manuel Garcia & Sebastian
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October: Beyond Color retreat La Bassa Mar Barcelona
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November: Malonda – live concert & party: cooperation mit cafe daneben & get rid, Kafe Marat Munich
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November: price for being winner of the integration award bavaria, Regierung von Oberbayern
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November: “Panel Virtual de Experiencias Trans” Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior (lME), Mexico City
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December: dinner in red – remembrance & celebrating world aids day: cooperation with Plus
2024
February: Ramadan start, moroccan cocking evening
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Upcoming event: Extra pride munich, July 21, 2024
Gallery
Still i rise (Maya Angelou), Recital by Beyond Color
Beyond Color es organizado por personas que se identifican como LGBTIQA+ y Black persona o persona de color. Queer, Intersex, Bisexual, Pansexual, Transgenero, Transsexual, Lesbiana, Gay, Dykes, Kuchus, Faggots, Gender Queer, no-binario, Gender variable o no-conforme, Femme, Butch, Asexual, Demisexual o gris sexual, Two Spirit, no definida/o, questionando y todes que son descendientes de lugares de Africa, Asia, Medio Oriente, personas indigenas de Australasia, las Americas, del Caribe, del Pacifico, los Roma, los Sinti y personas de descendencia mixta.
No incluye descendientes de Europeos que migraron a Africa, Asia o las Americas por razones coloniales o migrantes Europeos blancos.
Nuestro grupo esta abierto para personas con origenes y raices, etnias y identidades sexual o de genero variadas.
Esta definicion de POC esta basada en nuestras experiencias y refleja nuestra realidad en un contexto europeo.
Equipo
Manuel
Manuel Ricardo Garcia, indigeno americano + mexicano/aleman FTM y Trans* activisto & arquitecto. "Mexicano/as no necesitan el permiso de los coloniales blancos & yo bailo al sonido de un tambor diferente!"
Luna
"Soy Luna, mis raices estan en Chile e Italia. Por la dictadura anterior mi abuelo es un ex preso politico y se exilio en Alemania. Si amo a las mujeres, pero estoy convencida de que el amor no conoce fronteras, no de genero y no de paises...."
Paul
Soy Paul de Uganda. "Eres perfecto justo como eres".
Riya
Riya es de Africa de Este,de Eritrea. Soy una artista y simplemente queer. Mi lema: se queer, se gay, se ambos o otro, pero se tu misma/o.
Simo
Simo de Morocco. DJ (Black y R'n B,Deep,Oriental,House latino y africano, Pop oriental). La musica puede cambiar el mundo, porque puede cambiar a las personas.
Sheila
Sheila es una Keniana androgena. Ella es actriz, ama el baile y momentos tranquilos. Llamame Quing.
Paul
Traductor inglés-alemán y cómplice
Kakande
Kakande Cameron es una trabajadora ugandés gay / sexual y VIH activist Y apasionada por el empoderamiento positivo para las personas que viven con el VIH.
Él cree firmemente en la participación de la comunidad y, por lo tanto, su cita favorita "Nada sobre nosotros sin nosotros"
Sebastian
Sebastian Ritter Choquehuanca, peruanisch/deutsch queerer Klimaaktivist. "No hay justicia ambiental sin justicia de género."
Mevsim
From Istanbul, Turkey. I'm a scholar and artist navigating logic, emotion, spirit and the human condition.
I am kinda genderless/non-binary and gender-fluid when I think it's funny. Queer and here nonetheless.
Ashwinraj
Antiracist activist and sustsinable engineer from India.
Nancy
Nancy , with roots from Ivory Coast. "We need more queer bipoc representation."
Eventos
2017
July: CSD - participation at the Munich pride march
2018
May: Transcendence - a critical resistance - panel discussion, Sub e.V. Munich
∗ ∗ ∗
July: CSD - participation at the Cologne pride march
∗ ∗ ∗
July: CSD - participation at the Munich pride march
∗ ∗ ∗
September: racism & queer community – lecture, self-help center Munich
∗ ∗ ∗
October: Self-defense course for people of color, Sub e.V. Munich.
∗ ∗ ∗
December: Qultur festival – workshops, performances, exhibition, live music & party, Kafe Marat Munich
2019
April: posing through oppression – lecture about vouging culture, Get Rid party Munich
∗ ∗ ∗
July: CSD - participation at the Cologne pride march
∗ ∗ ∗
July: queer and now / from stonewall to queertopia! - festival workshops, performances & party, theater Kammerspiele Munich
∗ ∗ ∗
October: trans*activism in Mexico - performance & life interview, aids support Munich
∗ ∗ ∗
November: whitewashing in film – workshop & panel discussion, queerfilmfest Munich.
∗ ∗ ∗
December: Qultur festival - performances, live music & party, Kammerspiele München.
2020
January: I am dancing to the beat of a different drum – native american lecture, academie of art Munich
August: queere Künstlerinnen of color, Verhandlungen von Desidentifikation, Unarchiving und Überleben im deutschen Kontext - lecture by Dr. Rena Onat, Diversity Munich
∗ ∗ ∗
October: Beyond Color Retreat La Bassa Mar Barcelona
∗ ∗ ∗
November: different experiance still painful – lecture with Manuel Garcia & Sheilla Achieng, Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin
∗ ∗ ∗
November: it is still painful in your space – lecture about transphobia & racism in FLINTA* spaces, Glockenbachwerkstatt Munich
∗ ∗ ∗
November: different experiance still painful – lecture with Manuel Garcia & Sheilla Achieng, Aidshilfe Saarbrücken
∗ ∗ ∗
December: dinner in red – celebration of life dinner commemorating, world aids day in cooperation with Plus, Bellevue Munich
2023
May: IDAHOBIT - speach by Cameron Kakande, CSD Orga Munich
∗ ∗ ∗
July: Klima.gerecht.machen Multiplikator*innen – workshop Luna Vida Gaetel & Sebastian Ritter Choquehuanca, Villa K, Pöcking
∗ ∗ ∗
July: Trans Muslim & Trans of Color Dialog – live talk Manuel Garcia & Leyla Jagiella, Rathaus Munich
∗ ∗ ∗
September: 50 anos del golpe militar en Chile, todavia vivimos Chile – live interview with Alvaro Vidal Perez, Kafe Marat Munich
∗ ∗ ∗
October: Klimaherbst München Opening Panel „fair enough - about climate justice“ – Manuel Garcia on stage, Kunstlabor2 Munich
∗ ∗ ∗
October: Community Werkstatt Bundesverband Trans* - Empowerment workshop for BI_POC & Intersectional dialog with Ria Heyab & Manuel Garcia, Pavillon Hannover
∗ ∗ ∗
October: las muertas de Chihuahua – live interview with Daniela Salas & Manuel Garcia, Bellevue Munich
∗ ∗ ∗
October: No hay justicia ambiental sin justicia de genero – lecture about queer feminist perspective on climate justice: Manuel Garcia & Sebastian
∗ ∗ ∗
October: Beyond Color retreat La Bassa Mar Barcelona
∗ ∗ ∗
November: Malonda – live concert & party: cooperation mit cafe daneben & get rid, Kafe Marat Munich
∗ ∗ ∗
November: price for being winner of the integration award bavaria, Regierung von Oberbayern
∗ ∗ ∗
November: “Panel Virtual de Experiencias Trans” Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior (lME), Mexico City
∗ ∗ ∗
December: dinner in red – remembrance & celebrating world aids day: cooperation with Plus
2024
February: Ramadan start, moroccan cocking evening
∗ ∗ ∗
Upcoming event: Extra pride munich, July 21, 2024
Galería
Still i rise (Maya Angelou), Interpretado por Beyond Color
Keith, Manuel, Resty y Paul
Rae, Sheila y Luna
Melisa, Riya y Simo
Contacto
Para contactar con nosotros por correo electrónico por favor haga clic aquí: Mail to Beyond color
Deutsch
Über uns
Wer sind wir?
Beyond Color ist eine Münchner Gruppe von Personen, die sich als Schwarze und POC LGBTQIA+ identifizieren mit Erfahrungen von Rassismus, Diskrimienierung und Migration.
Die Gruppe will die queere Szene in Europa umgestalten, zu einer Szene die bewußt und inklusiv gegenüber Schwarzen, POCs und ihren Erfahrungen ist. Wir klären die Öffentlichkeit auf und schaffen Räume für unsere Community. Wir arbeiten auf ein dekolonisiertes Europa hin.
Beyond Color engagiert sich in Anti-Diskriminierungs-, Anti-Gewalt- und Empowerment-Arbeit für LGBTQIA+ Personen mit einer Geschichte von Migration, Rassismus und allen Formen von Diskriminierung.
Wie machen wir das?
Wir halten Workshops, Gesprächsrunden und Vorträge, organisieren Partys, Performances, Demonstrationen und Tagungen in Europa.
Was heisst 'Schwarze und POC LGBTQIA+'?
Beyond Color ist selbst organisiert von Menschen, die sich selbst als LGBTQIA+ und Schwarz oder POC‘s definieren. Queers, Intersex, Bisexuelle, Pansexuelle, Transgender, Transexuelle, Trans*, Lesben, Schwule, Dykes, Kuchus, Faggots, Gender queer, non-binary, Gender variant or non conforming, Femmes, Butches, Asexuelle, Demisexuelle oder Grey sexual, Two spirits, Undefinierte, Questioning und die die aus Gegenden in Afrika, Asien, dem Mittleren Osten abstammen, die indigenen Menschen aus Australasien, den Amerikas, der Karibik, dem indischen Pazifik und Sinti und Roma, sowie Menschen mit gemischter Herkunft.
Das schließt nicht die Menschen mit ein, die von Europäer_innen abstammen und aus kolonialen Gründen nach Afrika, Asien oder in die Amerikas migriert sind oder die weiße europäische Migrant_innen sind.
Unsere Gruppe ist offen fuer Menschen verschiedenster Herkunft und Wurzeln, Ethnizität und sexueller sowie Gender-Identität. Diese Definition von POC basiert auf Erfahrungen und spiegelt unsere Lebensrealität in einem europäischen Kontext wieder.
Das Team
Manuel
Manuel Ricardo Garcia, native american+mexikanisch/deutscher FTM & Trans*+ & Architekt. „Mexikaner*innen brauchen keine Erlaubnis von weißen Kolonialisten & Ich tanze zum Rhythmus einer anderen Trommel!“
Luna
„Ich bin Luna, meine Wurzeln kommen aus Chile und Italien. Aufgrund der damaligen Diktatur ist mein Opa ex-politischer Gefangener und ins Exil nach Deutschland gekommen. Obwohl ich Frauen liebe habe ich die tiefe Überzeugung, dass Liebe keine Grenzen hat, keine Geschlechtergrenzen und keine Ländergrenzen...“
Paul
Ich bin Paul aus Uganda: „Du bist perfekt, so wie du bist“.
Riya
Riya ist aus Ostafrika, aus Eritrea. Ich bin eine Künstlerin und einfach queer. Mein Motto: sei queer, sei gay, sei beides oder anders, aber sei du selbst.
Simo
Simo aus Marokko. Disc Jockey (Black and R'nB, Deep, oriental, latin and african House, oriental Pop). Musik kann die Welt verändern, weil sie die Menschen verändern kann.
Sheila
Sheila ist eine androgyne Kenyanerin. Sie ist Schauspielerin, liebt Tanz und stille Momente. Nennt mich Quing.
Paul
Übersetzer für englisch-deutsch und Komplize.
Kakande
Kakande Cameron ist ein ugandische Schwulen- / Sexarbeiter*in und HIV-Aktivist*in, der/die sich leidenschaftlich für die Stärkung von Menschen mit HIV einsetzt.
Er/Sie glaubt fest an das Engagement der Gemeinschaft und daher an sein/ihr Lieblingszitat „Nichts über uns ohne uns“.
Sebastian
Sebastian Ritter Choquehuanca, peruanischer deutscher queerer Klimaaktivist. „Ohne Geschlechtergerechtigkeit gibt es keine Umweltgerechtigkeit.“"
Mevsim
From Istanbul, Turkey. I'm a scholar and artist navigating logic, emotion, spirit and the human condition.
I am kinda genderless/non-binary and gender-fluid when I think it's funny. Queer and here nonetheless.
Ashwinraj
Antirassistischer Aktivist und nachhaltiger Ingenieur aus Indien.
Nancy
Nancy, mit Wurzeln aus der Elfenbeinküste. „Wir brauchen mehr queere Bipoc-Repräsentation.“
Events
2017
July: CSD - participation at the Munich pride march
2018
May: Transcendence - a critical resistance - panel discussion, Sub e.V. Munich
∗ ∗ ∗
July: CSD - participation at the Cologne pride march
∗ ∗ ∗
July: CSD - participation at the Munich pride march
∗ ∗ ∗
September: racism & queer community – lecture, self-help center Munich
∗ ∗ ∗
October: Self-defense course for people of color, Sub e.V. Munich.
∗ ∗ ∗
December: Qultur festival – workshops, performances, exhibition, live music & party, Kafe Marat Munich
2019
April: posing through oppression – lecture about vouging culture, Get Rid party Munich
∗ ∗ ∗
July: CSD - participation at the Cologne pride march
∗ ∗ ∗
July: queer and now / from stonewall to queertopia! - festival workshops, performances & party, theater Kammerspiele Munich
∗ ∗ ∗
October: trans*activism in Mexico - performance & life interview, aids support Munich
∗ ∗ ∗
November: whitewashing in film – workshop & panel discussion, queerfilmfest Munich.
∗ ∗ ∗
December: Qultur festival - performances, live music & party, Kammerspiele München.
2020
January: I am dancing to the beat of a different drum – native american lecture, academie of art Munich
August: queere Künstlerinnen of color, Verhandlungen von Desidentifikation, Unarchiving und Überleben im deutschen Kontext - lecture by Dr. Rena Onat, Diversity Munich
∗ ∗ ∗
October: Beyond Color Retreat La Bassa Mar Barcelona
∗ ∗ ∗
November: different experiance still painful – lecture with Manuel Garcia & Sheilla Achieng, Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin
∗ ∗ ∗
November: it is still painful in your space – lecture about transphobia & racism in FLINTA* spaces, Glockenbachwerkstatt Munich
∗ ∗ ∗
November: different experiance still painful – lecture with Manuel Garcia & Sheilla Achieng, Aidshilfe Saarbrücken
∗ ∗ ∗
December: dinner in red – celebration of life dinner commemorating, world aids day in cooperation with Plus, Bellevue Munich
2023
May: IDAHOBIT - speach by Cameron Kakande, CSD Orga Munich
∗ ∗ ∗
July: Klima.gerecht.machen Multiplikator*innen – workshop Luna Vida Gaetel & Sebastian Ritter Choquehuanca, Villa K, Pöcking
∗ ∗ ∗
July: Trans Muslim & Trans of Color Dialog – live talk Manuel Garcia & Leyla Jagiella, Rathaus Munich
∗ ∗ ∗
September: 50 anos del golpe militar en Chile, todavia vivimos Chile – live interview with Alvaro Vidal Perez, Kafe Marat Munich
∗ ∗ ∗
October: Klimaherbst München Opening Panel „fair enough - about climate justice“ – Manuel Garcia on stage, Kunstlabor2 Munich
∗ ∗ ∗
October: Community Werkstatt Bundesverband Trans* - Empowerment workshop for BI_POC & Intersectional dialog with Ria Heyab & Manuel Garcia, Pavillon Hannover
∗ ∗ ∗
October: las muertas de Chihuahua – live interview with Daniela Salas & Manuel Garcia, Bellevue Munich
∗ ∗ ∗
October: No hay justicia ambiental sin justicia de genero – lecture about queer feminist perspective on climate justice: Manuel Garcia & Sebastian
∗ ∗ ∗
October: Beyond Color retreat La Bassa Mar Barcelona
∗ ∗ ∗
November: Malonda – live concert & party: cooperation mit cafe daneben & get rid, Kafe Marat Munich
∗ ∗ ∗
November: price for being winner of the integration award bavaria, Regierung von Oberbayern
∗ ∗ ∗
November: “Panel Virtual de Experiencias Trans” Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior (lME), Mexico City
∗ ∗ ∗
December: dinner in red – remembrance & celebrating world aids day: cooperation with Plus
2024
February: Ramadan start, moroccan cocking evening
∗ ∗ ∗
Upcoming event: Extra pride munich, July 21, 2024
Galerie
Still i rise (Maya Angelou), Interpretiert von Beyond Color
