Berl's gay neighbourhoods |

Contents:

• BERL'S GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS
• LGBTQ+ BERL – THE CY’S BT GAY BARS, CLUBS AND SNAS
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• GAY THE GDR? THE GAY BERLER VTIGAT AHEAD OF “COMG OUT” SCREENG
• IN A FIRST FOR THE NFL, JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
• GAY SAN FRANCIS

BERL'S GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS

The centre of gay and lbian life here is the Café Sundström and the SchwuZ night club loted behd . The rabow neighbourhood also prents self as Berl's gay leather & fetish district, and wh a self-nfint prence. 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.

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

Berl's gild era the 1920s was also when night clubs for gays and lbians flourished. While Schöneberg’s Nollendorfplatz has tradnally been nsired the centre of Berl’s gay scene, other LGBTQ-iendly hotels n be found nearby districts as well. Although ArtHotel Connectn is loted a charmg, peaceful part of Schöneberg, is still wh walkg distance to all the gay hotspots of Nollendorfplatz.

For those new to Berl, the knowledgeable staff members are more than happy to share their tips on the cy’s gay nightlife and all the sential parti, events and exhibns. Be sure to ask about the special pass available to guts, who are entled to disunts to many gay snas, nightclubs, shops and rtrants the area.

The Nazi regime rried out a mpaign agast male homosexualy between 1933 and 1945. It is unclear how many of the men publicly or privately intified as gay or were part of gay muni and works that had been tablished Germany before the Nazi rise to power. They also arrted large numbers of gay men unr Paragraph 175.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

It is important to note that not all of the men arrted and nvicted unr Paragraph 175 intified as gay. Intifyg as a gay man was never explicly crimalized Germany. However, the Nazi mpaign agast homosexualy and the regime’s zealo enforcement of Paragraph 175 ma life Nazi Germany dangero for gay men.

Gay men Germany were not a monolhic group, nor did the Nazi regime view them as such. Beg gay uld and often did rult persecutn.

GAY THE GDR? THE GAY BERLER VTIGAT AHEAD OF “COMG OUT” SCREENG

However, other factors also shaped gay men’s liv durg the Nazi era. This diversy meant that gay men had a wi range of experienc Nazi Germany.

For example, gay men active anti-Nazi polil movements risked beg arrted as polil opponents. And gay Jewish men faced Nazi persecutn and mass murr as Jews.

Gay Men Germany, cir 1900. Already the mid- to late-neteenth century, there were ditns of nascent and growg gay muni Germany. Among the terms were “gleichgchlechtlich” (“same-sex oriented”) and “homosexuell” (“homosexual”).

IN A FIRST FOR THE NFL, JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY

The latter term dated to 1869, when a pamphlet advotg for crimalizatn of sexual relatns between men ed the term “Homosexualät” (“homosexualy”). The newer slang word “schwul” (often translated to English as “gay”) was also creasgly popular among certa groups. Today, the terms “Homosexualät” and “homosexuell” are often nsired rogatory.

Gay Men durg the Weimar Republic (1918–1933). Gay muni and works Germany ntued to grow and velop durg the Weimar Republic (1918–1933).

Many gay men embraced this new culture.

GAY SAN FRANCIS

In ntrast, the work of gay men that veloped around thor Adolf Brand and his anizatn Gemeschaft r Eigenen (The Communy of Kdred Spirs) took a different approach.

Gay Communi and Networks the Weimar Republic. It was the relatively eeg atmosphere of the Weimar Republic that gay muni and works grew and veloped unprecented ways.

More German men chose to live openly as gay. Some joed “iendship leagu” (Frndschaftsverbän), groups that polilly and socially anized gay men, lbian women, and others.