Queer & gay Berl: Your gui for LGBTQ+ Berl |

Contents:

• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
• GAY AND BISEXUAL HEALTH
• GAY PARIS
• BERL GAY MAP

QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL

Hirschfeld was a gay Jewish doctor livg Berl the early SCHILLACE: Many of Hirschfeld's patients were also homosexual.

And one of his patients, unfortunately, end his life on the eve of his weddg bee he uldn't face marryg a woman but also uldn't face tellg his parents that he was homosexual.

GAY AND BISEXUAL HEALTH

So one of their greatt achievements is actually their attempts to te everyday people to unrstand that homosexualy and genr-nonnformg people - so that - today, we would ll that transgenr.

Unfortunately, homosexualy was still technilly illegal unr Paragraph 175 the German l and laws, but you uld actually get a pass, a kd of license for what they nsired cross-drsg. There were many s of workg-class people acceptg their homosexual children, but those who had somethg to lose and were social climbg or, you know, volved ernment, they were the on who found much more difficult to accept their children who had homosexual Intertg. Distrght and agated, the man had e to nfs himself an Urng—a word ed to refer to homosexual men.

GAY PARIS

The famo “Paragraph 175” the German crimal ma homosexualy illegal; a man so acced uld be stripped of his ranks and tl and thrown jail.

Hirschfeld unrstood the soldier’s plight—he was himself both homosexual and Jewish—and did his bt to fort his patient. Many of his precsors and lleagu believed that homosexualy was pathologil, g new theori om psychology to suggt was a sign of mental ill health. Includ unr this umbrella were what he nsired “suatnal” and “nstutnal” homosexuals—a regnn that there is often a spectm of bisexual practice—as well as what he termed “transvt.

BERL GAY MAP

” He likewise regnized that the people uld be eher homosexual or heterosexual, somethg that is equently misunrstood about transgenr people today. Hirschfeld’s own precsor sexology, Richard von Krafft-Ebg, had claimed the 19th century that homosexualy was natural sexual variatn and ngenal. While medil school, he had experienced the trma of watchg as a gay man was parad naked before the class, to be verbally abed as a generate.

” What began as a sterilizatn program ultimately led to the extermatn of lns of Jews, Roma, Soviet and Polish cizens—and homosexuals and transgenr people. Hirschfeld’s likens would be reproduced on Nazi propaganda as the worst kd of offenr (both Jewish and homosexual) to the perfect heteronormative Aryan race. 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.

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. 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. Follow our tour through Schöneberg wh numero ports of ll for gays, lbians, bisexuals and transsexuals. 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.