Gaytherings
About Gaytherings

Before platforms existed, there were gaytherings.

Long before flyers, apps, or stages, our community found ways to come together, and when we do, something magical happens. Gaytherings exists so you can always find LGBTQIA+ events, in any city you're in.

What is the community doing in Los Angeles
Why we exist

The question we all ask in every city is the same...

“What LGBTQIA+ events are happening near me today?”

Finding a local karaoke night, a rave, a speed dating night, a sober meetup, a support group, a community rally, a concert, or a casual gaythering meant scrolling through dozens of fragmented, non-inclusive platforms. Private groups, screenshots of flyers, a friend who happens to know. And when we travel it gets harder, because the same question comes up in a place we do not know yet.

So we built Gaytherings: an LGBTQIA+ event ticketing and discovery platform with more than 18 categories and growing, created by us, for us. It is live worldwide, starting in the USA, because that question does not stop at a border.

LGBTQIA+ community gathering

Gay, to us, means all of us
at any time of our day & night.

Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Trans/Nonbinary/Queer/Intersex/Asexual/+
Diverse LGBTQIA+ community together
01 · The gay in Gaytherings

One word sits in our name, and it carries the whole spectrum. Gaytherings is built for every part of the community.

We use the word for everything it has carried: joy at its root, defiance when we reclaimed it, and chosen family ever since. Gay was our community's first umbrella term, and we use it that way, wide enough to hold everyone.

The name itself is a word play: gay + gathering = gaythering, and we welcome you to use it. If the community is gathering, it's a gaythering.

02 · Not only nightlife

Community events have historically been associated with nightlife, so it is easy to assume that is all we cater to. It is not: Gaytherings covers more than 18 categories and growing, from the morning run to after hours.

And the dark palette you see across the platform is a design choice, not a description of what we do.

Our promises

Your data is yours

Mailing lists, attendee relationships, and customer data belong to the organizer, exportable anytime. We are a utility, never a middleman.

Privacy over profiling

Encrypted, GDPR-compliant, and hosted under the strictest privacy rules in the world. Never sold, never profiled, deleted everywhere on request.

Moderation is a conversation

Queer events get flagged and frozen elsewhere every day. Here you get early warnings, suggested fixes, and sales that keep running while we sort it out together.

Infrastructure, not extraction

Transparent pricing, fast payouts, and no money parked for weeks after the doors close. We only grow when our events fill up.

Photo: a cause or org we support

Every ticket sold empowers the community

Service fees fund the platform and the community fund at the same time. A portion of our revenue goes back every year, to LGBTQIA+ nonprofits, artists, and people in our community who need it.

Our founding organizers are part of our donation advisory committee and help us decide where to direct the funds. If you are an active organizer on Gaytherings and want to join the committee, contact our support with a request to be added.

About Gaytherings, in short

Gaytherings started with a problem: finding LGBTQIA+ events was harder than it should be anywhere in the world. Not just nightlife - everything happening in the community, for every member, with any preference. Events lived in fragmented group chats, word of mouth, and Facebook listings untouched since 2018. You move to a new city: how do you find your people? You land somewhere for a few days: how do you know what's happening while you're there? Every one of us has asked these questions.

So we built the answer ourselves. Gaytherings started as a simple calendar: one place where everything happening in the community could actually be found. Then we decided we deserve more as a community. Organizers should be able to sell tickets, reach new faces, and get paid without the runaround, so the calendar kept growing, piece by piece, into a full platform. We keep building it with the care our community deserves, because the easier it is to find each other, the more we gather.

If you host, perform, or organize for our community, join us and sell with us. Every ticket strengthens an ecosystem that belongs to us and gives back to our own. We built this for the people who see us and value us. The platforms that never did, we simply don't need anymore.

Our mission

To empower the LGBTQIA+ community with a seamless, inclusive, dedicated platform that makes events easy to find, keeps resources and data inside the community, and enables event organizers to curate and market their events with ease.

Our vision

To be the main platform the community uses to find LGBTQIA+ events, anywhere in the world. If it is happening, it should be on Gaytherings, and no LGBTQIA+ event should ever be missed or left out.

For event organizers

Switch to us, sell with us.
Grow with us.

Free listings, competitive service fees, fast payouts, and marketing tools that put your event in front of an audience already searching for it. You keep full ownership of your attendee data and mailing lists. Set up in minutes, sell the same day.

Organizer at their own event

Get in touch

Media and presshello@gaytherings.com
Partnerships and businesshello@gaytherings.com
Organizer and attendee supportsupport@gaytherings.com