Bt of LGBTQ+ Germany: Highlights of a Gay Couple Road Trip

Contents:

• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
• LGBTQ+ BERL – THE CY’S BT GAY BARS, CLUBS AND SNAS
• BERL'S GAY, LBIAN, AND QUEER SCENE SMALL-GROUP WALKG TOUR
• GAY GERMANY TRAVEL GUI
• BERL - GAY SOLO CY TRIP - BERL FOM
• 14 GAY-IENDLY CI THAT LGBT TRAVELLERS LOVE
• GAY TRAVEL TO BERL - BERL FOM
• GAY BERL · MID-RANGE + BUDGET HOTELS
• BERL GAY SNAS
• BERL'S GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS

QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ 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.

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 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.

LGBTQ+ BERL – THE CY’S BT GAY BARS, CLUBS AND SNAS

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. 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. 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.

BERL'S GAY, LBIAN, AND QUEER SCENE SMALL-GROUP WALKG TOUR

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. 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. This means that the Berl Police Headquarters at Alexanrplatz remas a credible threat of force spe s policy of tolerance towards the gay and lbian scene.

GAY GERMANY TRAVEL GUI

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. 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.

BERL - GAY SOLO CY TRIP - BERL FOM

Rosa von Prnheim's film, It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society Which He Liv (1971) spir the gay scene to tablish new associatns. 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.

14 GAY-IENDLY CI THAT LGBT TRAVELLERS LOVE

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”. 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.

GAY TRAVEL TO BERL - BERL FOM

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.

GAY BERL · MID-RANGE + BUDGET HOTELS

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.

The most famo LGBTQ monument Berl is the inic Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Unr Nazism (open sce 2008), a large reflective stone that plays a repeatg vio clip of men kissg men and women kissg women.

BERL GAY SNAS

Other LGBTQ memorials Berl clu an AIDS memorial the Schöneberg neighborhood and a memorial plaque at the Nollendorf U-Bahn statn memoratg the persecutn of homosexuals Nazi Germany. While Berl’s Schöneberg neighborhood is the historic gayborhood, a lot of Berl’s bt bars are actually further east the Krzberg and Nkölln neighborhoods.

Germany’s trend-settg (and polil) pal has played such a cril role the global LGBT movement that the cy is nsired to be the center of gay culture Europe and, historilly, the world. A Schwul Mm exhib on the history of homosexualy put perfectly when regnized Berl as “a laboratory of queer cultur and nonnformist approach to life.

Durg the electn, Mayor Wowrere beat his opponents to the punch by outg himself wh the now famo quote “Ich b schwul, und das ist ch gut so, ” which (wonrfully) translat to, “I am gay and that is jt fe.

BERL'S GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS

Tucked among the tre the east end of the verdant Tiergarten Park is a stark ncrete stcture memorializg gay men and women murred by the Nazi party. Established 1978 and ultimately moved to the Motzsraße—the “twalk” of Schöneberg—the bookstore stocks an imprsive selectn of gay and lbian fictn, along wh more amic works. Bee you already are gog to spend the day disverg the gay-iendly and adorable Prenzler Berg neighborhood, you’ll want to stop at PraterGarten for a be and drk the sha of chtnut tre.