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

Contents:

• GAY GERMANY TRAVEL GUI
• GAY MUNICH TRAVEL GUI – GERMANY
• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
• LGBTQIA & GAY TRAVEL
• GAY BONN TRAVEL GUI
• HE TRAVEL – GAY TRAVEL TOURS, GAY ADVENTURE TRAVEL, ACTIVE VATNS
• THE WORLD'S BT GAY TRAVEL GUITHE BT GAY STATNS. FD THE BT GAY BARS, CLUBS, SNAS, BEACH AND MORE. EXCLIVE HOTEL REVIEWS, BIG DISUNTS & BOOK ONLE.BANGKOKLONDONBARCELONAMIAMISEOULSEARCH HOTELSLEARN MOREMALTAMALTA IS HOSTG THIS YEAR'S EUROPRI. VIS THIS BETIFUL MEDERRANEAN ISLAND.THE WORLD'S BT GAY TRAVEL GUI
• GAY GERMANY CULTURAL TOUR
• GAY REISEN – SO DIVIDUELL WIE DU SELBST!
• DER WELTBTE GAY-REISEFüHRER
• GAY FRANKFURT

GAY GERMANY TRAVEL GUI

But actually, the first public LGBTQ+ rights prott took place Germany, over a century earlier, 1867—one year before the term ‘homosexualy’ was ed, German! The Nazis ma more severe and imprisoned 10, 000 gay men (and some lbians, although they were not vered by Paragraph 175) ncentratn mps, where they were marked wh the pk triangle—and a majory died. But there is plenty to see today to remember the highs and lows of German LGBTQ+ history, om the Monument to Homosexuals Persecuted unr Natnal Socialism and the Schwul Mm (Gay Mm), both Berl, to the Dtsche Eiche bar and bathhoe Munich, where Freddie Mercury hung out the 1970s.

And let’s not fet Bavaria’s gay (and/or queer) kg, Mad Ludwig, and his Wagnerian fantasy stle, Nschwanste—the spiratn for Disney’s Snow Whe’s Castle. Germany ranks among the top gay-iendly vatn statns acrdg to the Spartac Gay Travel Inx 2018 due to the gay-iendly environment the major ci like Berl, Hamburg, and Cologne.

GAY MUNICH TRAVEL GUI – GERMANY

Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.

There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.

QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL

Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife.

The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".

Gay Munich Travel Gui: Beer, bratwursts, tradnal stum, and sportg ambns – the Bavarian pal Munich as the third-largt German cy has many characteristics for which Germany is famo.

LGBTQIA & GAY TRAVEL

The gay movement began to secure a permanent place Munich as early as the 1950s, which of urse was a very posive and progrsive velopment not only for gay men but also for the entire LGBTQ+ muny. The cy then transforms to a te wter wonrland wh the Pk Christmas Market for gays and the LGBTQ+ muny as well as the largt Christmas market, the ‘Munich Christkdlmarkt‘.

One of the most famo figureheads of gay life Munich was Freddie Mercury, -founr, poser, and lead sger of the band Queen, who lived Munich’s Glockenbackviertel for about six years. Probably the bt-known gay and queer tablishment Munich, the bar, rtrant, hotel, and gay sna named ‘Dtsche Eiche’, beme creasgly important the early 1970s. Munich today is still one of the LGBTQ+ and gay-iendlit ci Germany, not only thanks to s numero lotns but also through social projects that support the young queer generatn.

In our gay Munich travel gui, we n particularly remend two hotels: The Aloft Munich, a Marrtt-n hotel near Munich Central Statn, and the Dtsche Eiche, which has also ma a name for self as a hotel Germany’s most expensive trendy district. How about, for example, a gay cy tour wh tour gui Alexanr Kardashenko om YourMunichTour, who always had the right rmatn about the LGBTQ + muny ready for the highlights of the cy of Munich? In our list of LGBTQ+ and gay-iendly plac Munich, we grouped the loli by topic to Gay Clubs and LGBTQ+ party lotns, Gay bars, gay snas, Fetish loli, as well as rtrants and fés.

GAY BONN TRAVEL GUI

Make sure to put a trip to Hamburg, Berl, Drn, the island Rügen and beyond on your bucket list while visg one of the most gay-iendly untri Europe acrdg to the annual Gay Travel Inx 2020. 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.

HE TRAVEL – GAY TRAVEL TOURS, GAY ADVENTURE TRAVEL, ACTIVE VATNS

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.

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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. 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.

GAY GERMANY CULTURAL TOUR

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.

GAY REISEN – SO DIVIDUELL WIE DU SELBST!

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. 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.

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. 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. 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. 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.

DER WELTBTE GAY-REISEFüHRER

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.

GAY FRANKFURT

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. 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.

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.

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.