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Contents:

• THE 10 BEST BERL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BERL
• THE BT GAY AND QUEER-IENDLY BARS AND CLUBS BERL
• GAY PRI BERL (CSD BERL)
• THE BEST THGS TO DO MARZAHN-HELLERSDORF (BOROUGH), BERLSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MARZAHN-HELLERSDORF (BOROUGH)
• GAY NIGHTLIFE BERL
• PANSY CRAZE: THE WILD 1930S DRAG PARTI THAT KICKSTARTED GAY NIGHTLIFE
• GAY LIFE BERL IS STARTG TO ECHO A DARKER ERA

THE 10 BEST BERL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BERL

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THE BT GAY AND QUEER-IENDLY BARS AND CLUBS BERL

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.

Every summer the Pri Weeks are celebrated wh the Lbian-Gay Cy Ftival, CSD on the Spree and many other events.

GAY PRI BERL (CSD BERL)

You n also fd tips & ntacts for gays, lbians, bi-, trans- and tersexuals as well as anizatns that support the queer muny our practil .

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 Berl's Gay Mm (Schwul Mm) you will always ga new sights to the world of the gay, lbian and transgenr scene. 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.

THE BEST THGS TO DO MARZAHN-HELLERSDORF (BOROUGH), BERLSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MARZAHN-HELLERSDORF (BOROUGH)

Right back to the 1920s, the district has been a hotspot of the gay scene and is a mag and twalk for queer Berlers and tourists.

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. Follow our tour through Schöneberg wh numero ports of ll for gays, lbians, bisexuals and transsexuals.

GAY NIGHTLIFE BERL

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

This cema maly shows gay and lbian films, and has been a bean for queer cema the rabow neighbourhood sce 1995.

Back the 1920s, Berl had already bee a haven and refuge for gays and lbians om all over the world. There are 170 clubs, bars and pubs for gays and lbians, and well as rto nightlife and a gay neighbourhood.

PANSY CRAZE: THE WILD 1930S DRAG PARTI THAT KICKSTARTED GAY NIGHTLIFE

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. The Scientific-Humanarian Commtee – the very first gay and lbian anisatn the world – was found Berl.

GAY LIFE BERL IS STARTG TO ECHO A DARKER ERA

One of the first gay venu Berl, notor for equent raids by the police, had already been open Jägerstrasse sce 1885.

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. Another homosexual associatn is found wh an exclive Unn for Male Culture, which lled self the Communy of the Unique. 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.

The -owner of the rtrant, Alma Dalbelli, ntu nng the bs as the Como om 1905 on: was Berl's very first gay we bar. 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. Furthermore, the first gay film, entled Different om the Others (directed by Richard Oswald), is shown cemas.