Queer Cabaret Bernoise

A glamorous evening of queer theatrical entertainment, hosted by HAUSVRAU and The Sweet Transvestite! Music, vocal performances and dance fill the brilliant ambience, the Queer Cabaret Bernoise takes you on a journey on which you seem to forget a world outside this entertaining utopia. An evening with performances by queer artists from Switzerland. Cin-Cin & Cheers to Queer Cabaret!

THE HOSTS: HAUSVRAU + THE SWEET TRANSVESTITE
In 2021, the two founded the Trans Safety Emergency Fund, an institution that focuses on providing financial support to trans people around the world. They are also connected through the ‘House of Laveaux Switzerland’, the Swiss offshoot of the ballroom ‘Maison Laveaux’, whose father is The Sweet Transvestite and whose godmother is HAUSVRAU. They are both trans activists and artists and have already organised events such as a gala together.

THE INVITEE: EDWIN RAMIREZ
In addition to HAUSVRAU and The Sweet Transvestite, Edwin Ramirez will also be performing at the second edition of Queer Cabaret. Edwin Ramírez (they/them) is a stand-up comedian, performance artist and activist from Zurich. After his comedy debut in 2015, Edwin fell in love with the stage and has since performed as a comedian on numerous stages in German-speaking Switzerland and French-speaking Switzerland: most recently with the two solos ‘Queer Crip Becoming’ (2022) and ‘Queer Crip Becoming: Daddy Edition’ (2024). But the most influential is the Crip-Queere theatre project ‘Criptonite’, founded in 2020 together with Nina Mühlemann, for which the two received the Cultural Award of the City of Zurich in the theatre category in 2022 and a four-year grant since 2023. The duo's shows put disabled artists at the centre and combine drag, comedy and social criticism and have been shown in some of the most important venues in the independent scene in Zurich, Bern, Munich and Berlin. As an activist, Edwin combines anti-racist, anti-ableist and queer struggles and regularly speaks on these topics in interviews and podcasts. Since 2024, he has also been campaigning for the rights of disabled and chronically ill FLINTA people as co-director of ‘Netzwerk Avanti’.