Berl LGBT nightlife: bt gay bars, clubs and parti - Hostelworld

Contents:

• BERL'S GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• GAY PRI BERL (CSD BERL)
• GAY PRIS 2023 AND 2024
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

BERL'S GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS

The centre of gay and lbian life here is the Café Sundström and the SchwuZ night club loted behd .

The rabow neighbourhood also prents self as Berl's gay leather & fetish district, and wh a self-nfint prence. 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.

© Cale BlakeThanks to an LGBTQ+ scene that has been thrivg for years, the bt gay bars, clubs and snas Berl are a mtBerl has earned s strip as one of the great gay pals of the world, wh a huge LGBTQ+ muny, one-of-a-kd queer bars and an attu to life that enurag habants to be whoever they please. Betty F***It was over a century ago that the homosexuals of the Wilhelme perd would ngregate around the bars and fés of Mte’s Mulackstrasse. Today, as one of the few gay bars left Mte, Betty F*** remas a favoure for gays, hipsters and fashnistas lookg for a kickstart to the eveng.Photograph: Shutterstock4.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

Pop to one of the rotatg exhibns on gay, lbian and trans history, pese the abundant books and magaz stored upstairs, and then chill out over a quiet ffee or beer.Photograph: Silver Future5. Möbel OlfeIt’s an odd lotn for a gay bar, wedged among Turkish snack bars a down-at-heel 1960s hog velopment, but this unpretent space has been packed sce opened, maly wh gay and lbian beer lovers, thanks to the excellent range of brews on offer. N UferEstablished the early 1970s, this is one of the cy’s olst gay fés and is loted off the beaten Schöneberg track.

SüdblockA former beer-slger om Möbel Olfe opened this bar for Krzberg’s fast-expandg gay populatn 2010.

GAY PRI BERL (CSD BERL)

Some thgs, we gus, are bt seen wh your own ey.The bt gay sna BerlDer BoilerA mastay on the Berl sna scene, Krzberg’s Der Boiler is renowned for s lively steam room and maze-like cisg area for men. It is unclear how many of the men publicly or privately intified as gay or were part of gay muni and works that had been tablished Germany before the Nazi rise to power.

GAY PRIS 2023 AND 2024

It is important to note that not all of the men arrted and nvicted unr Paragraph 175 intified as gay. However, the Nazi mpaign agast homosexualy and the regime’s zealo enforcement of Paragraph 175 ma life Nazi Germany dangero for gay men.

For example, gay men active anti-Nazi polil movements risked beg arrted as polil opponents.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Already the mid- to late-neteenth century, there were ditns of nascent and growg gay muni Germany. Among the terms were “gleichgchlechtlich” (“same-sex oriented”) and “homosexuell” (“homosexual”).

The latter term dated to 1869, when a pamphlet advotg for crimalizatn of sexual relatns between men ed the term “Homosexualät” (“homosexualy”). The newer slang word “schwul” (often translated to English as “gay”) was also creasgly popular among certa groups. Gay muni and works Germany ntued to grow and velop durg the Weimar Republic (1918–1933).

In ntrast, the work of gay men that veloped around thor Adolf Brand and his anizatn Gemeschaft r Eigenen (The Communy of Kdred Spirs) took a different approach. It was the relatively eeg atmosphere of the Weimar Republic that gay muni and works grew and veloped unprecented ways.

Some joed “iendship leagu” (Frndschaftsverbän), groups that polilly and socially anized gay men, lbian women, and others.