QX recommends…WE Pride

One of the biggest parties of the year saunters into Madrid this July


If you’re still searching for a summer sojourn where you can wear that slightly risqué ASOS swimwear number you brought in February, then look no further. Close those Trivago tabs, because WE Pride Festival is the gay holiday to end all gay holidays!

Between 4th-8th July, the festival takes place in the stunning Madrid with its examples of Baroque architecture and Golden Triangle of Art on the Paseo del Prado. Not that you’re going to have time to soak it all in with a well-thumbed Lonely Planet guide, because you’ll be spending the weekend at some of the biggest circuit parties you’ve ever seen! And they are absolutely huge by the way, with crowds bustling full of the thousands of salivatingly hot guys who jet into this corner of Spain every year for sun-kissed hell-raising!

The biggest party of all takes place on Saturday 7th July: WE Magic Planet.  Along with a star-studded DJ line- up of Abel, Oscar Velazquez, Binomio, Sr. Edu and Neo Scott, they also build up a breathtaking setup, with over 250m of LED screens, 40 dancers and gargantuan cannons that could probably submerge the whole of Soho in a mischievous plume of steam.

Either side of that, there are six other parties in clubs all over the city, including a prison-themed Macho night, an open air pool party and a gargantuan collaboration between circuit clubbing institutions, Matinee and WE Party, to finish off the whole weekend! You can pick and choose between them, or go to all of them if you’re feeling especially pumped. It is going to be, as the Spanish say, a lot of divertido.

We might dust off DuoLingo before we go though.

To book tickets and accommodation, head to wepridefestival.com

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