Between World Wars, Gay Culture Flourished In Berl : NPR

Contents:

• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
• THE 10 BEST BERL GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS BERL
• GAY BERL: LGBTIQ+ GUI FOR BERL
• BETWEEN WORLD WARS, GAY CULTURE FLOURISHED IN BERL

QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL

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.

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.

THE 10 BEST BERL GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS BERL

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. 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. 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.

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. 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.

GAY BERL: LGBTIQ+ GUI FOR BERL

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. 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. 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”.

BETWEEN WORLD WARS, GAY CULTURE FLOURISHED IN BERL

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. © 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. 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. 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. From outsi, the Butcherei Ldger looked like any of the other kk shops Schöneberg, Berl’s historic gay mannequ the wdow was accsorized wh a ball gag; another wore what appeared to be a leather divg mask of sorts, nnected to a metal leash.

What many of those leather vote may not know is that the movement for gay rights and sexual liberatn—like their wristbands, motorcycle jackets, and harns—began right there BerlIn 1897—half a century before the Amerin sexologist Aled Ksey challenged the popular unrstandg of same-sex sire as a disease or disorr—Magn Hirschfeld, a Berl-based doctor and scientist, found the Scientific Humanarian Commtee.

A century before untri started permtg same-sex marriage, he argued that “love is as varied as people are” and that sexual preference was nate, a natural, blogil tth that shouldn’t be ’s nightlife reflected siarly liberal views, as Robert Beachy documented his book, Gay Berl.