Wh Ko Internatnal screeng 1989 queer film "Comg Out" on Nov 9, the GDR's first (and only) feature alg wh homosexualy, our lumnist chats to Ossis to fd out more about the East Berl gay scene.
Contents:
- QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
- GAY THE GDR? THE GAY BERLER VTIGAT AHEAD OF “COMG OUT” SCREENG
- THE 10 BEST BERL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BERL
- KLS STOCKHSEN ON THE FRONT AND GERMANY’S GAY CLUB SCENE
- NAZIS, SEX AND STASI PARANOIA: CISG THROUGH GAY LIFE COLD WAR GERMANY
- LGBTQ+ BERL – THE CY’S BT GAY BARS, CLUBS AND SNAS
- THE ULTIMATE GAY GERMANY ERARY: 2 WEEKS CLUDG GAY ATRIA
- GAY FRANKFURT
QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
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The German pal has been nsired a gay hotspot sce the early 1900s, and Berl’s LGBT nightlife ntu to partner Natalie and I recently spent almost a week Berl.
As I already poted out, Berl has been at the centre of LGBT culture sce the early 1900s, when the cy was the unofficial gay pal of see, Berl has been a cy of ‘firsts’ on the road to LGBT equaly. In the 1920s, Berl beme the first cy the world to have a gay district, and Schoneberg went on to host the first-ever gay monstratn recent years, several other gay districts have popped up around the cy and sprkl of the gay scene n be found everywhere. From what we n tell, the club is mostly equented by young gay men lookg to have a good time, however you will fd your fair share of lbians and alli pendg on the night.
But you are sure to see thgs that you’ll unlikely ever experience aga a nightclub members of the LGBT muny do go to the standard nights at K Kat, the exclive gay men only night lled Revolver Party is on once a month. Neighbourhood: FriedrichshaOpeng hours: Every Thursday: 11 pm – early HoursPrice range: $$? @antoejulienGay-iendly hostels BerlLGBT travellers needn’t worry about experiencg any discrimatn when bookg hostels Berl.
GAY THE GDR? THE GAY BERLER VTIGAT AHEAD OF “COMG OUT” SCREENG
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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. 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.
KLS STOCKHSEN ON THE FRONT AND GERMANY’S GAY CLUB SCENE
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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.
NAZIS, SEX AND STASI PARANOIA: CISG THROUGH GAY LIFE COLD WAR GERMANY
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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.
LGBTQ+ BERL – THE CY’S BT GAY BARS, CLUBS AND SNAS
Disver the bt of gay Germany cludg Frankfurt, Ban-Ban, the Bavarian Alps, Munich, Rothenburg, Nuremberg, Drn and Berl. * east germany gay disco *
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.
THE ULTIMATE GAY GERMANY ERARY: 2 WEEKS CLUDG GAY ATRIA
Abstract. The HIB (Homosexuelle Intersengemeschaft Berl, or Homosexual Intert Group Berl), a gay and lbian rights group, was active East Berl i * east germany gay disco *
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 FRANKFURT
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.