15 Aug

11:00

Eye Filmmuseum

IJpromenade 1, Amsterdam

A documentary portraying ten members of the community around De Trut, an iconic Amsterdam queer club that has been a safe haven for forty years.

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:00

Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:30

Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:25

Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam

De Trut: 10 portretten

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A Safe Haven for the Queer Community

For forty years now, queer club De Trut (founded 1985) has been an Amsterdam icon and a safe haven within the queer community. Documentary maker Pim Mookhoek portrays ten members of the ‘Trut community’, from activist former staff member to club regular.

De Trut is world famous in Amsterdam. A queer party has been organised here every Sunday evening for forty years, run 100 per cent by volunteers. The income generated is used to subsidise LGBTQI+ projects worldwide. The parties have proved a great success: pretty soon after the club opened, in a squat on Bilderdijkstraat, the queue to get in snaked around the block and, so many years on, it still does.