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Contents:

• BERL'S GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS
• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
• BERL CY GUI: WORLD-CLASS GAY CULTURE
• GAY BERLIN
• THE 10 BEST BERL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BERL
• GAY BERL: LGBTIQ+ GUI FOR BERL
• GAY LIFE BERL IS STARTG TO ECHO A DARKER ERA
• THE BT GAY RINTIAL AREAS BERL
• THE BT GAY AND QUEER-IENDLY BARS AND CLUBS BERL

BERL'S GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS

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.

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.

BERL CY GUI: WORLD-CLASS GAY CULTURE

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. 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. 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. The gay and lbian movement rapidly gas pace wh the Friendship Associatns and their lol branch all over Germany, which are found om 1919 on.

GAY BERLIN

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.

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

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. 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.

GAY BERL: LGBTIQ+ GUI FOR BERL

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. When the Berl Wall is built 1961, the divid cy of Berl los s leadg role, and s appeal, as the cy of eedom for gays and lbians for a to e. 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.

GAY LIFE BERL IS STARTG TO ECHO A DARKER ERA

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. 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.

THE BT GAY RINTIAL AREAS BERL

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.

THE BT GAY AND QUEER-IENDLY BARS AND CLUBS BERL

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. As Berl is unofficially known as Europe’s gay pal, we would like to take the opportuny and give you a ltle overview of Berl’s most gay iendly districts (obvly no way is this a plete list). Schöneberg’s queer set up also mak a very ftg lotn for Berl’s Schwul Mm* (Gay Mm), which moved om Krzberg to Schöneberg’s Lützowstraße a uple of years ago.

If you like to get a ltle b of readg on the topic of gay culture, their library nsists of more than 20, 000 volum verg all areas of scientific quiry om humani, social science, sexology, fe arts and popular science. In this ntext is also worth mentng that the last uple of years they have ma a bigger effort to llect lerature on female homosexualy, queer femist theory and trans and ter experienc. This beg said, a uple of years ago SchwuZ, one of Berl’s favore gay clubs, moved om s old lotn Krzberg to s new and bigger one Nkölln (close to the subway statn Raths Nkölln).

The monthly publitn, which is available for ee at over 700 lotns, offers a prehensive event lendar for gays and lbians and als wh all kds of cultural and polil issu that affect Berl.

The German gay rights movement began as early as 1896, when a small circle of Berlers began the publitn of the first ever gay magaze ‘Der Eigene’. However, Der Eigene was not wrten as a means of polil activism, and only a year later when Magn Hirschfeld, a German physician, creat the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee (as a subset of Berl’s Instute for the Science of Sexualy) did the muny start to actively lobby for the rights of gay, lbian and transgenr people.

Durg the goln age of the 1920s and 30s, pre-Nazi Germany was credibly tolerant towards the LGBT+ muny allowg gay culture to thrive Berl, unlike anywhere else.

The world’s first gayborhood, Schöneberg, prospered wh s many gay and lbian bars and nightclubs, as did gay artistic exprsn through films, mic, theatre and prt. The whole area is effortlsly gay, wh palpable remnants of an old-world European sensibily, stag a range of both new and well-tablished gay bars, fés and shops. Pockets of lbian and gay spiratn n be found several quarters such as the gentrified Prenzler Berg, tourist hotspot Mte, and the alternative and partly dised Friedrichsha (all ex-East Berl).

Der Boiler, the largt gay sna the cy, is relatively new and has immediately bee very popular for s clean, ol and ntemporary terrs and maze-like cisg area. On a more ser note, if gay history is of tert, make sure you’ll get a chance to vis The Memorial to the Homosexuals Persecuted Unr Nazism, on the Ebertstraße, and the Schwul Mm on Lützowstraße, jt outsi the Schöneberg.