GZone prideORIENTAL is a spectacular and unique event which mashes up west and east with pride. GZone prideORIENTAL desire to entertain its audience with a collaboration of music, dance, mini workshops, stage shows and its visual world. Let's find out more!

2. GZONE is Turkey’s biggest LGBTQ lifestyle and culture
magazine.
GZONE is a monthly digital magazine and online portal.
and also an entertainment brand for monthly pride
parties.
GZONE is a partner of HORNET (Turkey's most anticipated
gay-dating app based in San Francisco)
GZONE is available on ISSUU and gzone.com.tr
WHAT IS GZONE?

3. GZONE creates it’s own content from local media and
worldwide gay media and culture publications. GZONE is
appealing to readers from all sexual orientation with its
essays, interviews, photoshoots and news. Our magazine has
released 46 issues on Issuu platform and from our often
updated news portal www.gzone.com.tr.
Also we are the founders of www.gaysofturkey.com (In
English only) portal which aims to guide foreign people about
Turkish culture and gay travel to Turkey. What we are trying to
do in our magazine, portal and English language website is to
normalize gay issues and gain more and more LGBT visibility
in every media. We are trying to do this with the help of
Turkish celebrities.
We have also interviewed international celebrities like Steve
Grand, Mans Zelmerlöw, Lara Fabian, Riff Cohen,
Kadebostany, Sofi Tukker, Jake Graf and Ayer.
GZONE’S CONTENT

4. GZone’s audience of
45% is 18-24 yrs old,
38% is 25-34 yrs old
7% is 35-44 yrs old
GZone reaches openminded, LGBTQ and
LGBTQ friendly, adventurer, art-loving
crowd with huge music and travel interest.
Our readers & followers show great
amount of interest to music, cinema, travel,
lifestyle news-stories.
GZONE’S VISITORS AND FOLLOWERS

5. WEBSITE REACH
gzone.com.tr has reached 1.382.496 visitors with 3.195.251 page views
between November 2018-October 2019

6. GZone’s Social Media Follower Numbers are:
Instagram: 43.800 Followers - 1000-2500 likes per post
5000-7500 views per InstaStory
Facebook: 12.300 Likes
Twitter: 8.728 Followers
SOCIAL MEDIA REACH

7. GZone has;
62% Male,
38% Female Instagram
Audience
SOCIAL MEDIA REACH - INSTAGRAM STATS
GZone reaches;
almost 83K accounts
per week
with 236K views

8. GZone has made collaborations with EMI-Universal and Sony Music Turkey for publishing two
Rainbow Anthems compilation albums which both have exclusively recorded brand new songs.
GZONE AS AN ENTERTAINMENT BRAND
MUSIC ALBUMS
BRANDED PARTIES
GZone team organizes monthly special parties with brands at the selected venues around Turkey.
Most of these parties are LGBTQ related.
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9. GZONE AS AN ENTERTAINMENT BRAND
GZone’s queer posh 5G Disco party brand
entertained hundreds of guests at one of the
best cocktail bars in town: 5 Cocktails & More
Starting from İstanbul Pride 2018, GZone Our
Pride parties bring all rainbow supporters
under one roof to have insatiable fun with
gogo boys, drag queen shows, dance shows
and Dj performances
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10. PRIDEORIENTAL PARTY
WHAT IS PRIDEORIENTAL PARTY?
GZone prideORIENTAL is a spectacular and unique event
which mashes up west and east with pride. GZone
prideORIENTAL desire to entertain its audience with a
collaboration of music, dance, mini workshops, stage
shows and its visual world.
GZone prideORIENTAL aims to combine western culture
with eastern culture, to show the audience that they
are all the same and create empathy, spread love
empowered with entertainment.
As LGBTQ community consists of many different
identities and a perfect combination of multicultural
characters, GZone prideORIENTAL event is also a
spectacular mash-up of cultures and genders.
This unique event delivers dashing Oriental House and
Ethnic House music with a variety of shows that are
perfect blend of east and west. GZone prideORIENTAL’s
music genre is Oriental Music, Ethnic Music combined
with House rhythms.
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11. PRIDEORIENTAL PARTY
PRIDEORIENTAL PARTY AT SZIGET 2018
GZone prideORIENTAL’s special dance shows such as Oriental Voguing and mini dance
workshops in the Oriental Bellydance genre with male bellydancers promises a
delightful night with Eastern surprises.
GZone prideORIENTAL took place at the most colorful and free venue of Sziget Festival:
Magic Mirror on August 8th, 1.15 PM with a Turkish all-star entertainment team: DJ
Saintjer (AKA Murat Renay), Dancers Segah Demirdelen and Buğra Büyükşimşek, plus
visuals of many artists in Queer Orientalism genre.
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12. PRIDEORIENTAL PARTY
PRIDEORIENTAL’S TURKEY PARTIES: ELECTRO ORIENTALES
GZone prideORIENTAL re-branded itself to ELECTRO ORIENTALES in Turkish venues and added great ethnic house DJ’s to its line-up.
GZone ELECTRO ORIENTALES made a Turkey tour on November-December 2019 in cities like İzmir, Ankara and Eskişehir

13. PRIDEORIENTAL PARTY
DJ & Music Director: SAINTJER (AKA Murat Renay)
Born in İzmir/Turkey in 1978 as a Taurus, Sainter is a graduate of a Cinema-TV
college. He worked in the Telecommunication and marketing area from 1999
to present. His fight against homophobia has begun writing his essays in his
own blog and then published 3 books about discrimination. He has launched
GAYS OF TURKEY BLOG (www.gaysofturkey.com) to create a good synergy
between Turkish LGBTs and LGBTs all around the world to fight homophobia.
He is the founder of Turkey’s biggest LGBT media: GZONE
(www.gzone.com.tr) and also resident DJ and music director of GZONE
Parties. He is entertaining crowds as a DJ in various parties in bars and night
clubs among Turkey and Europe since 2011.
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/saintjer
PRIDEORIENTAL PRODUCER

14. TURKEY:
5 Cocktails, Limoncello, Curcuna,
Hayal Kahvesi Bistro,
Nar Pera, The Mekan,
Nişantaşı Otu37edi, MAHALLE,
Cheeky Club, Banana Club, Bubble Club,
Fiyaka Club, Kucuk Beyoglu, Mekann Club,
Frappe İstanbul, Neo Club İstanbul,
Sugar and Spice,
Rehab İstanbul, Oxhan Pera
(İSTANBUL)
Fun Beach (Çeşme) -Vesta Roof, Park Inn İzmir (İzmir),
Publone Bar, Social (Eskişehir), Tattoo CLub (Kusadasi),
Murphy’s Club (Bodrum), Zone Bar (Ankara)
Gzone 5G Disco Parties Resident Dj
(Various places in Istanbul)
Gzone prideORIENTAL Parties Resident Dj
(Various places in Turkey and Sziget 2018 Festival)
played at:
PRIDEORIENTAL PARTY

15. played at:
EUROPE:
Venues:
Sky Club (Romania),
La Scala Beach Club (Thassos-GREECE)
Fou Club (Athens-GREECE),
Dada Photography Club (Thessaloniki-GREECE),
Enola Club (Thessaloniki-GREECE),
Alexander Sauna (Athens-GREECE),
Splash Sauna (Thessaloniki-GREECE),
Block 66 (Copenhagen-DENMARK)
-two times with the invitation of SABAAH (Denmark LGBT NGO)-
Sziget Magic Mirror (with prideORIENTAL) - Hungary
Marche Des Visibilites
(Strasbourg Pride March 2013-FRANCE)
La Laterie-Artefact
(Strasbourg-As one the official Djs of Festigays-FRANCE)
PRIDEORIENTAL PARTY