Building a queer gym is expensive. Senn has spent a lot of time writing a business plan, and has calculated that it will take €200K. We want to collect a quarter of this with you, the rest with financiers. With your donations, we can make important steps towards our goal and demonstrate to financiers how great the support is. Your donation kills two birds with one stone!

With €10,000 we will look for a location. With € 20,000 we will put out vacancies. With € 30,000 we can talk to the contractor about the location. With €40,000 we will make an appointment with suppliers of the sport equipment. With €50,000 we will discuss the remaining amount with investors and work towards a final opening date.

Share the crowdfunding information with everyone: queer, straight, old and young. It doesn’t matter. Many people are not familiar with the fact that exercising is not always easy for queer people. By sharing our story you make people aware and hopefully also willing to help.

Wasn’t the perfect amount for you among the options? Or do you want to make a business donation? We Are Queer is still looking for the right investor(s) to contribute to our success. €50,000 of funding will take us a long way, but a little more is needed. If you would like the pitch deck, please email us at info@wearequeer.nl.

We give you a safe place to exercise. There will be a gender-neutral dressing room, but also separate changing cubicles so that you do not have to enter the entire dressing room. Toilets have no gender 😉 We also help you to feel happy(er) in your body. We guide you in the run-up to surgery or recovery. We will also have people employed who are part of the community themselves and have understanding and knowledge of your wishes.

Yes, you can come and exercise! As a cis straight person you are of course also welcome. Know that everyone is welcome at We Are Queer, but is designed to offer everyone within the LGBTQIA+ a safe environment to exercise. Queer is the norm.

Our goal is to have a physical location at a central point in Amsterdam by mid-2022.

We are looking for a location centrally located in Amsterdam. This location must be wheelchair accessible. Do you have a great tip? Let us know and become an honorary member of We Are Queer!

This is Senn: a 32-year-old non-binary person that uses the pronouns they/them. Initially trained as a marketer and now personal trainer and nutrition coach. You may know Senn from last summer’s coverage detailing the filing of their case against the state to allow an X in the passport: https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2021/08/01/senn-bestaat-niet-volgens-de-wet-a4053310

Yes, that’s right, there is a queer gym in Rotterdam. Because there are also a lot of people in Amsterdam who need a safe and inclusive sports space, it is time that a gym for queers opens its doors here too.

People from the queer community need a place of their own that is geared to them, with a culture that is different from regular gym culture. There, the spaces are binary and the coaches are often not familiar with the needs of the queer community. To make regular gyms more inclusive is therefore a process that will take a long time, opening a queer gym is a direct solution.