How we began

BCA started when several people from organisations like aequa, POLY. Artists and DOGMA, came together with members from different collectives (Berlin Strippers' Collective, Host Aware, Lecken, Room 4 Resistance, Radiant Love, TS Raver and TUF), to come up with a swift way of redistributing much-needed resources and support to those in our queer nightlife communities most severely impacted by the crisis — precarious low-income workers, non-EU migrants and people of colour, trans- and gender non-conforming people, sex workers, those with pre-existing conditions who may therefore be more socially isolated, and those for whom alternative systems of support (whether state-provided or familial) do not generally exist.

Very quickly, we realised that while the bulk of our work would involve setting up an inclusive, equitable and transparent redistribution system between various members and constituencies of our extended queer rave culture. Our solidarity could not be limited exclusively to nightlife but had to extend, for instance, to sex workers and people with a migration background in a wider sense. Both through our own distribution system, and by allocating a small portion of our budget each week to different organisations working with urgent social issues on the ground (street sex work, sea rescue, FRONTEX camps, asylum cases, disability rights, homelessness and more).

Signatory collectives

aequa

Berlin Strippers Collective

Black Power Naps

Black Sex Workers Collective

BOAR

Buttons

Climax

Cocktail d’Amore

The Culonizers

Dance With Pride

DICE Conference + Festival

DOGMA

DUMP

EMPOWER

Gegen

Gladt e.V.

Golosa

Hoe__mies

Host Aware

House of Living Colors

Lecken

mina

New World Dysorder Berlin

No Shade

Objects Of Desire

Pornceptual

Radiant Love

RIOT

Room 4 Resistance

Sex Worker Action Group

SWAK

Trans Feminism International

Trans*Sexworks

Trashera

Transmission

TS Raver

TUF

Un:seen

WHOLE Festival

Whore Moans

XenoEntities Network