Abstract. The HIB (Homosexuelle Intersengemeschaft Berl, or Homosexual Intert Group Berl), a gay and lbian rights group, was active East Berl i
Contents:
- NEW EXHIBN REVEALS ROLE OF GAY MUNY BERL WALL'S FALL
- THE 10 BEST BERL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BERL
- GAY LIBERATN BEHD THE IRON CURTA
NEW EXHIBN REVEALS ROLE OF GAY MUNY BERL WALL'S FALL
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"It was a high-wire act, " said East German art expert Stephan Koal about the life of Jürgen Wtdorf, a long-closeted gay artist whose dargly homoerotic works rated even official buildgs of the Stalist regime. "Gay people were an important part of an credibly excg subculture, " he said, along wh overlappg groups of tellectuals, churchgoers, environmentalists and squatters that fally spilled onto the streets East Germany's peaceful revolutn.
THE 10 BEST BERL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BERL
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"The regime saw the gay scene as a threat. The munist state crimalised gay sex 1968 -- a year before Wt Germany -- but remaed a ser social taboo. Berl's chief culture official, Kls Lerer, who is also gay and om the east, hailed new efforts to rrect the "erasure" of Eastern artists and their battl for eedom.
GAY LIBERATN BEHD THE IRON CURTA
Although most gave way to gentrifitn and onle datg, a few of the gay bars and f of East Berl are still around, such as the Sonntags Club (Sunday Club) which is now a stop on popular tours of the Prenzler Berg district's LGBTQ history. There she meets the signer Rudi -- based on GDR style in Frank Schäfer, thor of a rollickg memoir about his life as a gay punk then bohemian Prenzler Berg. The movie's succs has a certa symmetry wh the first gay-themed feature film to be released East Germany, "Comg Out", which premiered the night the Wall fell.