Mood Reports · The Queer Night · Atlas edition
The Queer
Night Amsterdam
Mood read all 556 profiled Amsterdam venues for how queer they are. 25 are dedicated queer spaces - one in 22 - and the map has a clear centre of gravity in Centrum.
4.5% of Amsterdam's profiled venues are dedicated queer spaces. 60% of them sit in Centrum alone, and across the board they run 61% more underground than the rest of the city's night.
- 1 in 22 profiled Amsterdam venues is a dedicated queer space - 4.5% of the whole catalogue.
- 60% of them cluster in Centrum; the queer night reaches just 6 of 9 stadsdelen.
- Queer venues run +61% deeper underground and guard a +48% harder door than the city's average room.
- A bar-led scene - 40% bars, 20% clubs - ringed by 0.7× as many queer-friendly rooms.
The census
Where the queer night sits
Every stadsdeel of Amsterdam, shaded by how many dedicated queer spaces it holds. Hover any neighbourhood for its full breakdown.
Amsterdam by stadsdeel
Dedicated queer spaces per neighbourhood
Up close
Every dedicated queer space at its real location - Amsterdam's 25 queer rooms, zoomed to the ground they actually cover.
The dedicated queer spaces
One dot per verified queer venue - hover for its name
22 of 25 sit within 3.3 km of the centre - the whole scene is one walk.
- The Queen's Head
- Homomonument
- Saarein
- QueerHub
- Taboo Bar Amsterdam
- BLENDXL
- Club Raum
- Bar Buka Amsterdam
- Bears Amsterdam
- Club Church
- Spijker Bar Amsterdam
- DRAGS OF ANARCHY
- PAMELA
- Bar Exit
- Club NYX
- SOHO Amsterdam
- Filmhuis Cavia
- Sissi's Amsterdam
- Bar Blend
- TILLA TEC
- Boogieland
- Club Parallel
- Garage Noord
- Vrankrijk
- NieuwLand
The open-air paradox. The rest of Amsterdam's night is 1.6× as open-air as its queer night - 28% versus 18% openness. Queerness, here, stays behind doors.
Where it concentrates
The stadsdelen holding Amsterdam's dedicated queer spaces, the pockets where they run proportionally densest, and the rooms with the most attention on Mood.
By neighbourhood
Amsterdam's stadsdelen, by dedicated queer spaces
- 15 queer clubsCentrum
- 3 queer clubsWest
- 2 queer clubsNoord
- 2 queer clubsZuid
- 2 queer clubsNieuw-West
- 1 queer clubOost
Most intensely queer
By the share of a neighbourhood's own venues that are dedicated queer (min. 8 profiled)
- 8.2 % queerCentrum
- 5 % queerNieuw-West
- 4.5 % queerWest
- 4.5 % queerZuid
- 3 % queerNoord
- 1.6 % queerOost
Loudest on Mood
Queer & queer-forward rooms, ranked by following
- 556 followersRADION Amsterdam queer-friendly
- 427 followersGarage Noord queer-forward
- 266 followersClub Church queer institution
- 240 followersVondelbunker queer-friendly
- 220 followersClub Raum queer institution
- 176 followersParallel queer-friendly
The make-up
How thin the queer slice of the catalogue really is - and what kind of rooms it is made of.
- Dedicated queer 4.5%
- Queer-friendly 3.1%
- The rest of the night 92.4%
- Bars 40%
- Clubs 20%
- Cultural & other 40%
Cultural & other includes Association / Organization 4 · Cultural landmark 1 · Services 1 · Movie Theater 1 · Community Center 1 · Event Venue 1.
Queerer means deeper
Where the average dedicated queer space sits against the rest of the catalogue, on three of the twelve dimensions Mood reads venues by.
In the European context
Where Amsterdam lands among the seven atlas cities - as shares of each city's own catalogue, never raw counts.
Method & reuse
- The census. Every catalogued Amsterdam venue scored on twelve dimensions; a dedicated queer space is unmistakably queer, a queer-friendly venue carries visible queer programming without being defined by it. Exact thresholds: queerness ≥ 0.8 and ≥ 0.6.
- The map. Each profiled venue is placed into its real stadsdeel by coordinates; the shade is the count of dedicated queer spaces inside. Venues outside the mapped stadsdelen sit in the wider metro and are not shown.
- Boundary data. Amsterdam stadsdelen outlines from Gemeente Amsterdam open data (stadsdelen), projected and simplified for display. Base geography © its respective source.
- Fair comparison. This edition never compares Amsterdam to other cities by count. Cross-city figures live in The Queer Night: Europe, as shares of each city's own catalogue.
- Reuse. Free to republish under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Mood Data Desk (2026). The Queer Night: Amsterdam. Mood - Music of Our Desire. https://www.musicofourdesire.com/reports/the-queer-night-amsterdam