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.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

© 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.

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.

GAY PRI BERL (CSD BERL)

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

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.

Already the mid- to late-neteenth century, there were ditns of nascent and growg gay muni Germany.

GAY PRIS 2023 AND 2024

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. Gay newspapers and journals, such as Die Frndschaft (Friendship) and Der Eigene (translated varly, but this ntext implyg “his own man”), ntributed to the growth of gay works.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

They actively tried to build a sense of muny among gay men, and clud personal ads and rmatn about gay meetg plac. Part of this nmnatn was a rejectn of the era’s open exprsns of sexualy, cludg the visibily of gay muni. However, Röhm’s posn the Nazi learship did not temper the movement’s nmnatn of homosexualy and gay muni.

Shortly thereafter, they sought to dismantle the visible gay cultur and works that had veloped durg the Weimar Republic. One of the Nazis’ first actns agast gay muni was to close gay bars and other meetg spots.

However, ci like Berl and Hamburg, some tablished gay bars were able to rema open until the mid-1930s.

Nohels, the Nazi closur and creased police surveillance ma far more difficult for gay men to nnect wh each other. Another early actn unrtaken by the Nazi regime was the elimatn of gay newspapers, journals, and publishg ho.

In a further latn, the Nazis ed new laws and police practic to arrt and ta whout trial a limed number of gay men begng late 1933 and early 1934. Those arrted clud a number of gay men, some of whom were imprisoned the regime’s early ncentratn mps. Three events the years 1934–1936 radilized the Nazi regime’s mpaign agast homosexualy and led to more systematic opprsn of gay men.

Fally, 1936 SS lear and Chief of the German Police Herich Himmler tablished the Reich Central Office for the Combatg of Homosexualy and Abortn (Reichszentrale zur Bekämpfung r Homosexualät und r Abtreibung). The notorly homophobic Himmler saw both homosexualy and abortn as threats to the German birth rate and th to the fate of the German people. By the end of 1936, ndns were place for the Nazi regime to tensify s mpaign agast homosexualy.

In the Nazis’ unrstandg, the men were “homosexual” (“homosexuell”) offenrs and th crimals and enemi of the state. In the mid- to late 1930s, the police raid bars and other meetg plac that they believed to be popular wh gay men. Police raids were public and high-profile displays the Nazi mpaign agast homosexualy.

The language people ed nunciatns mak clear that the Germans tend to agree wh Nazi attus towards homosexualy.

In rarer s, the Kripo or the Gtapo would send a man directly to a ncentratn mp as a “homosexual” (“homosexuell”) offenr.

Between 5, 000 and 15, 000 men were imprisoned ncentratn mps as “homosexual” (“homosexuell”) offenrs. Gay men uld be imprisoned and persecuted ncentratn mps for reasons other than their sexualy. Some gay men were sent to mps as polil opponents, Jews, or as members of other prisoner tegori.

For example, gay men tegorized by the Nazi regime as Aryan had far more optns than those tegorized as Jews or Roma (Gypsi).

Some gay men, pecially those wh fancial rourc, uld try to hi their sexualy and outwardly nform. There were gay men who took the risk of ristg the Nazi state for polil and personal reasons. But the end of the war and the feat of the Nazi regime did not necsarily brg a sense of liberatn for gay men.