The main Gay Oktoberfest gathering held in the Bräurosl tent is called Gay Sunday.
Gay Sunday is the best-known event of the Rosa Wiesn, or Pink Wiesn, a series of LGBTQ-related celebrations during Munich’s Oktoberfest. It takes place on the festival’s first Sunday, when the Bräurosl tent becomes a major meeting point for the community and its allies.
The Bräurosl tent is also known as the Pschorrbräu-Festhalle and is one of Oktoberfest’s large beer tents. Its name refers to a legendary brewer’s daughter, while the tent itself is associated with Hacker-Pschorr beer. Gay Sunday is sometimes confused with the broader term Rosa Wiesn, but those names are not exact synonyms: Rosa Wiesn describes the wider set of events, whereas Gay Sunday is the principal Bräurosl gathering.
The tradition was initiated by the Münchner Löwen Club, a Munich LGBTQ organization. Other LGBTQ gatherings can occur elsewhere at Oktoberfest, but the Bräurosl event is the one specifically identified as Gay Sunday.