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Contents:
- QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
- LGBTQ+ BERL – THE CY’S BT GAY BARS, CLUBS AND SNAS
- BERL'S GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS
- GAY BERL, BEFORE HLER CAME TO POWER
- GAY LIFE BERL IS STARTG TO ECHO A DARKER ERA
- PETER BERL, THE ’70S GAY SEX SYMBOL, TAK NEW YORK
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
- DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
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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. 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 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.
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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. 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.
BERL'S GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS
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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. 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.
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 BERL, BEFORE HLER CAME TO POWER
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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.
GAY LIFE BERL IS STARTG TO ECHO A DARKER ERA
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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.
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 September 2017, a monument to the world's first gay and lbian emancipatn movement, which was iated by the gay and lbian associatn, is unveiled on Magn-Hirschfeld-Ufer, behd the Feral Chancellery. It is a symbol of the diversy of sexualy and genr, and a metaphor for a nfint, flourishg scene – a landspe that was first nceived of, put to the tt, and ma possible the 1920s – when Berl was a role mol for an ternatnal gay and lbian pal which all queer people uld fd a haven and refuge.
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The pal cy of Germany, gay Berl is known for s rich history both ancient and ntemporary, multu of mms, nightlife, f, clubs, and archecture. Vised by travelers om across the globe, this world cy is easily accsible by multiple means of transportatn, cludg a very efficient subway U-bahn and an above ground tra. Playg host to many annual ftivals and paras, gay Berl is known for s love of beer and also s more progrsive and vibrant nightclub scene. Berl also boasts two zoos and an aquarium. * gay berlin today *
On 1 October 2017 – a Sunday – the first gay and lbian upl marry Germany, cludg Volker Beck, a polician for the Green party, who marri his spoe Berl-Krzberg after a long fight to be able to say “I do”. It is said that there were more than 100 venu for homosexuals at that time, rangg om the famo Eldorado to the ladi dance hall Zur Manuela through to the large balls anised by var homosexual associatns. As early as 1897, Magn Hirschfeld found the Wissenschaftlich-Humanäre Komee (The Scientific-Humanarian Commtee) Berl, as the first ever gay and lbian human rights anisatn.
From 1919, he ran the legendary Instut für Sexualwissenschaft (Instute for Sexual Science), which ma an important ntributn to the emancipatn of gays and lbians all over the world. After the supprsn of the entire gay and lbian muny and subculture by the Nazis, wasn’t until 1971 that the homosexual scene revered aga – which is when the gay movement Homosexuelle Aktn Wtberl (Homosexual Actn Wt Berl) was found. The muny got a whole new lease of life wh the foundg of the Berler Lbenwoche (Berl Lbian Week) and the olst and largt gay and lbian cy magaze Siegsäule 1984.
Sce 1993, the gay/lbian cy ftival has been celebrated every year – is the largt of s kd worldwi and ensur to this day that Berl is home to the most diverse, vibrant and popular gay/lbian scen Europe. The days, up to 750, 000 people celebrate the CSD Berl the streets of the cy – no matter whether you are gay, lbian, bisexual, heterosexual, transgenr or another sexual orientatn. Berl’s gay neighborhood of Schöneberg was one of the world’s first, home the 1920s to legendary gay ins like Marlene Dietrich and Christopher Isherwood.
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
It serv both as a memorial to the homosexual victims of Natnal Socialism and as a lastg symbol agast excln, tolerance and animosy towards gays and lbians.
Bent director Moisés Kfman was surprised to disver that the 1920s and early 1930s, Berl was home to over 100 gay bars—far more than you’d fd any global cy today. We talked wh Robert Beachy, thor of Gay Berl: Birthplace of a Morn Inty and a historian at Yonsei Universy, to fd out about the liv the characters Bent—Max and his boyiend, Rudy, bar owner and drag queen Greta—might have led before Hler me to power.
Homosexual acts were illegal on the books, but a batn of factors allowed a vibrant gay culture to beg to tablish self Berl as early as the late 19th century.
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In fact, Germans’ “rpect and regard” and fah science, said Beachy, is part of the explanatn for why they rejected tradnal relig views of homosexualy more quickly than the rt of the Wt. Lots of proment cultural figur were “pretty wily regnized as gay or lbian, and some s they had life or long-term partners” who were treated as spo—not people to be hidn or embarrassed about, said Beachy. Nazi rhetoric associated homosexualy wh femy and Jewishns; was only “an issue the sense that unrmed Nazi pro-natalist polici, ” said Beachy.
But Nazi attus toward homosexualy “didn’t have the racialist or iologil heft of the anti-Semism or any of the other racially motivated persecutns. Most of Berl’s gay bars remaed open after the Nazis took power, except for about 15 of the bt-known tablishments, which they closed the first months of their le. “It was only after that, a full 17 months to the Third Reich, that ’s gog to start to dawn on some people that they’re gog to be trouble if they ntue to be openly homosexual, ” said Beachy.
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