WHOLE: United Queer Festival

Located just outside of Berlin, at the Ferropolis complex, thousands of queer ravers dance throughout the weekend next to towering excavators and a serene lake with a beach. WHOLE Festival is unique as it's an incubator for queer collectives around the globe to showcase their music style, performance art, and perspective — collectives from Kazakstan to Colombia to Uganda curate stages of homegrown artists.

WHOLE is massive! Most of the 5,000 attendees camp on site where there are multiple stages including a floating one just off the banks of a sandy beach, an eerie forest portal stage full of dancing shadows, and one amongst the rusted remnants of the venue's mining equipment. Berlin-style hard techno and drum & bass rule the night while whimsical disco and bouncy house will have you twirling under the German sun. The site has community workshops woven throughout the weekend on anything from renaming your genitalia to how to get your hormones. The queer mecca even has a dedicated cruising area. Alternative drag, performance art, local food stalls, a local makers mart full of k*nk clothing, and many surprises that will result in a "gay gasp" awaits WHOLE attendees.