Common questions about hosting, attending, and keeping events safe on Gay Map.
Click Sign in in the top right and use your email. No phone number, no government ID.
A calendar is a container for events. Gay Map has a few flavors:
Yes — see pricing.
Yes. Open the event from Manage → Events and click Edit. Every setting from the create flow is editable.
Yes. From the event's manage page open the Hosts tab and invite by email. You can grant full Manager access or scoped roles like Guest List Manager and Check-in Manager.
It surfaces a clear warning on the public event page. It does not verify ages — hosts are responsible for door-side checks.
Subscribed calendars show up in your Calendars page with their next events, and you can pull the same feed into Apple, Google, or Outlook Calendar via the iCal subscribe button on any calendar page.
Hover (or focus) the Subscribed button on the calendar or city page — it flips to Unsubscribe. Click once to remove yourself.
If the calendar accepts submissions, the + Add Event menu on its page gives you a Submit Existingoption. Submissions land in the calendar manager's review queue; once approved they show up on the public page.
City and festival calendars are platform-managed — they back a public landing page like /berlin or /csd-berlin and are grouped under Official calendars you managein your manage UI. They can't be deleted from the standard manage flow; contact us if you need to hand off ownership.
The Featured Calendars rail on /events and the Popular Eventsrail are admin-curated. City and festival calendars aren't shown in the calendars rail — they already have their own discovery surfaces (city tiles, the Festival Spotlight banner).
Up to you. Pick from Public, After RSVP, After approval, or Hours before start. The last option emails the address to approved guests automatically when your reveal window opens.
Hosts always see it. For everyone else, choose between Hosts only, Attendees only, or Public.
A guest can choose to hide their name from other attendees while still being counted on your door list. Hosts and check-in staff always see the real name.
Email safety@gaymap.live. See our Security & Safety page for the full policy.
Set the ticket price on your event and paste a payment URL — PayPal, Revolut, a Stripe Payment Link, or whatever you use. Gay Map shows a Get Tickets ↗ button that links to your payment page; you receive funds directly.
Set a price and leave the payment URL blank. Guests see the price and reserve a spot through Gay Map, then pay you in person.
Yes. Toggle Require approval in Event Options. Guests submit a request and you approve or decline from the manage page.
Each approved guest receives a unique QR ticket by email. Open Manage → Check-in on event day to scan QRs from your phone, or search the door list by name or email.
From profile settings, choose Delete account. Your profile is taken offline immediately and your API keys are revoked the same day. Within 30 days, your personal data (email, name, photos, bio, bookmarks, RSVPs) is anonymised in our database. If you change your mind during that window, email privacy@gaymap.live — once anonymised, the original account cannot be restored. See the Privacy Policy for details on what is retained for legal or aggregated statistics purposes.
Email privacy@gaymap.live and we'll send you a machine-readable export within 30 days.
Email hello@gaymap.live and a real human gets back to you.
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