Bt of LGBTQ+ Germany: Highlights of a Gay Couple Road Trip

Contents:

• GAY GERMANY TRAVEL GUI
• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
• THE 10 BEST GERMANY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS GERMANY
• THE ULTIMATE GAY GERMANY ERARY: 2 WEEKS CLUDG GAY ATRIA
• THE 10 BEST BERL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BERL
• ‘GREAT FREEDOM’ AND THE LONG SHADOW OF AN ANTI-GAY LAW GERMANY
• LGBTQ+ BERL – THE CY’S BT GAY BARS, CLUBS AND SNAS
• BERL'S GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS
• DISVER THE BT GAY-FRIENDLY ATTRACTNS AND ACTIVI FRANKFURT: AN UNFETTABLE EXCURSN
• GAY DRN

GAY GERMANY TRAVEL GUI

Many German polins and celebri are gay or lbian, and most urban areas are exceptnally progrsive about LGBT visors and lols alike.

Disver prent-day Berl as one of the most open and tolerant ci the world – the gay, lbian and queer scene is flourishg the German pal.

QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL

Startg wh the first gay fetish parti at Bergha, many Berl clubs and bars now celebrate queer, loud & proud, such as SchwuZ, Berl's largt LGBTQ+ club.

Every summer the Pri Weeks are celebrated wh the Lbian-Gay Cy Ftival, CSD on the Spree and many other events. You n also fd tips & ntacts for gays, lbians, bi-, trans- and tersexuals as well as anizatns that support the queer muny our practil . Berl liv and breath diversy every rpect: we have gathered practil rmatn, tips and pots of ntact for gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and tersexual people.

THE 10 BEST GERMANY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS GERMANY

In Berl's Gay Mm (Schwul Mm) you will always ga new sights to the world of the gay, lbian and transgenr scene. In Schöneberg fli the flag: In 1996, Schöneberg was the first borough to officially fly the rabow flag at the town hall for the CSD gay pri para, and has done so ever sce. Right back to the 1920s, the district has been a hotspot of the gay scene and is a mag and twalk for queer Berlers and tourists.

Wh the Lbian and Gay Street Ftival summer and Folsom Europe for leather and fetish fans September, Nollendorfplatz is a very special place to vis.

Sce 1986, the "Mann-O-Meter" - Berl's gay checkpot - wh s fé and rmatn area has provid rmatn about what mov the scene and offers unplited help.

THE ULTIMATE GAY GERMANY ERARY: 2 WEEKS CLUDG GAY ATRIA

Sce 1982, there has been a memorative plaque at the Nollendorfplatz unrground statn where the Rosa Wkel memorat the persecutn and murr of homosexuals the Third Reich. The rabow neighbourhood also prents self as Berl's gay leather & fetish district, and wh a self-nfint prence.

This cema maly shows gay and lbian films, and has been a bean for queer cema the rabow neighbourhood sce 1995. There are 170 clubs, bars and pubs for gays and lbians, and well as rto nightlife and a gay neighbourhood. Learn about how Berl beme a hotspot for gays and lbians over the urse of the 20th century, and how s scene attracted people om all over the world – and ntu to do so today.

One of the first gay venu Berl, notor for equent raids by the police, had already been open Jägerstrasse sce 1885. By 1910 there are twice as parks such as Tiergarten, public baths and a range of railway statns tradnally provid plac for many homosexual men to meet. Another homosexual associatn is found wh an exclive Unn for Male Culture, which lled self the Communy of the Unique.

THE 10 BEST BERL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BERL

Its founr, the publisher and anarchist Adolf Brand, acknowledg the existence of a distct homoerotic cultural history extendg om Ancient Greece through to the prent.

‘GREAT FREEDOM’ AND THE LONG SHADOW OF AN ANTI-GAY LAW GERMANY

The -owner of the rtrant, Alma Dalbelli, ntu nng the bs as the Como om 1905 on: was Berl's very first gay we bar. A number of lbian women, cludg Johanna Elberskirchen and Toni Schwabe, take a pro-active stance and fight to bee actively volved the gay movement, argug favour of havg their say Magn Hirschfeld's Scientific-Humanarian Commtee.

Furthermore, the first gay film, entled Different om the Others (directed by Richard Oswald), is shown cemas. The gay and lbian movement rapidly gas pace wh the Friendship Associatns and their lol branch all over Germany, which are found om 1919 on.

Magaz for gays and lbians are available at public ksks and the venu: they clu Die Frndschaft (Friendship), the Blätter für Menschenrecht (Magaze for Human Rights), Die Frnd (The Girliends), Frenliebe (Women's Love), and Das drte Gchlecht (The Third Sex) for transvt and transsexuals.

LGBTQ+ BERL – THE CY’S BT GAY BARS, CLUBS AND SNAS

The petg gay and lbian associatns are uned their fight agast Paragraph 175 (which crimalis homosexual acts). The Scientific-Humanarian Commtee had been filg petns sce 1897 llg on the Reichstag to abolish the special law agast homosexual men.

BERL'S GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS

In 1922, the gay and lbian' associatns briefly une to form an actn group to ensure their voic are heard durg an upg crimal jtice reform.

This means that the Berl Police Headquarters at Alexanrplatz remas a credible threat of force spe s policy of tolerance towards the gay and lbian scene.

There are now around 80 venu for gays and lbians Berl: beer-soaked div and distilleri, bourgeois rtrants, we bars and clubho, dance halls and dance palac, ballrooms and smopolan night-time bars. Numero hotels and gut ho, bety and hairdrsg salons, tailors and photo studs, doctors and lawyers private practice, librari, cigarette and shoe shops, and even a r rental pany, a travel agency and a distributor for potency pills advertise gay and lbian magaz. At the end of the 1920s, the Brish thor Christopher Isherwood arriv Berl to sample the pleasur of s liberal gay nightlife.

DISVER THE BT GAY-FRIENDLY ATTRACTNS AND ACTIVI FRANKFURT: AN UNFETTABLE EXCURSN

The owners of the all-night bar for lbians, Mai & Igel, are also affected by the forced closur, while the rnival stume balls for gays and lbians held at the In n Zelten amement strip Berl's Tiergarten, which were also hugely popular among heterosexuals, are banned wh immediate effect. So far, the nam of around 400 Berl men who fell victim to the terror agast homosexuals have been intified. Risg om the ash and fyg the post-war stery, gays and lbians re-emerge, holdg their first balls aga the midst of the bble of the stroyed cy om 1946 onwards.

A Berl-based group om the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee was found 1949 to rume the efforts ma by the first gay and lbian movement. Many men once aga bee the victim of state prosecutn unr the law agast homosexuals, a Nazi law that remas on the books and has sce been tightened.

When the Berl Wall is built 1961, the divid cy of Berl los s leadg role, and s appeal, as the cy of eedom for gays and lbians for a to e. As so-lled Rosa Radikale (pk radils), they revent homosexualy, unrstandg as a polil and anti-palistic promise of liberatn.

GAY DRN

Rosa von Prnheim's film, It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society Which He Liv (1971) spir the gay scene to tablish new associatns. Homosexuelle Aktn Wtberl is found Berl 1971, om which the femist awakeng emerg 1975 wh the foundg of the Lbian Aktnszentm – along wh the lbian archive Spnbon as an iative for the disvery, and prervatn, of female love. One year later, the transvte Charlotte von Mahlsdorf opens a venue for gays and lbians that will later bee legendary her mm dited to artefacts om the late 19th century.

Choirs, sports associatns and hikg groups add diversy and vibrancy to the scene Aids-Hilfe is formed 1985, and benefs om wispread support and be a new actor the gay movement. In East Berl, gays and lbians are able to emancipate themselv om 1983 on wh the protectn of the Prottant Church.