Queer & gay Berl: Your gui for LGBTQ+ Berl |

Contents:

• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
• BEYOND 'GAY TENNIS': ON ORLANDO AND THE GLTA
• THE 10 BEST BERL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BERL
• LGBTQ+ BERL – THE CY’S BT GAY BARS, CLUBS AND SNAS
• THERE ARE NO PUBLICLY OUT GAY PRO MALE TENNIS PLAYERS AND NOBODY REALLY KNOWS WHY
• BERL'S GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS
• GAY OLYMPIC HISTORIAN: KNOWN LGBTQ ATHLET WERE PETG EARLY 20TH CENTURY
• BETWEEN WORLD WARS, GAY CULTURE FLOURISHED IN BERL

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.

BEYOND 'GAY TENNIS': ON ORLANDO AND THE GLTA

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.

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 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. 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. 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.

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

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. 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.

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

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. Many men once aga bee the victim of state prosecutn unr the law agast homosexuals, a Nazi law that remas on the books and has sce been tightened. 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.

THERE ARE NO PUBLICLY OUT GAY PRO MALE TENNIS PLAYERS AND NOBODY REALLY KNOWS WHY

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.

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.

BERL'S GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS

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.

GAY OLYMPIC HISTORIAN: KNOWN LGBTQ ATHLET WERE PETG EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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.

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. Beyond 'Gay Tennis': On Orlando and the GLTASafe havens, like the Gay and Lbian Tennis Alliance and the PulSo go the sayg the Gay and Lbian Tennis Alliance, speakg to sportsmanship and not ettg the small stuff. Everyone has their favore players, and those are the personali I found most was 12 years later, 2008, after I had emerged om my closeted gay shell—another story entirely—that I first played a GLTA tournament.

BETWEEN WORLD WARS, GAY CULTURE FLOURISHED IN BERL

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The buildg, known as the Dansk Tennis Club, is a tribute to Leif Rovsg who missned, signed, and rated after he was banned om tennis 1917 for ‘prumed homosexualy’.

For the rt of his life, Rovsg mpaigned to w acceptance of homosexualy sport, wrg books and pamphlets and givg talks and lectur Denmark and abroad. His style and manner, on urt and off, were impossible to separate out om his homosexualy which was clear to everyone around him although he never admted until he had long stopped playg. Loted the same buildg as Bergha, this gay sex club is perhaps the only lotn Berl where crazier stuff is known to go down then s more famo neighbour's dark rooms.