THE 10 BEST Germany Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023)

Contents:

• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
• THE 10 BEST GERMANY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS GERMANY
• GAY LIFE BERL IS STARTG TO ECHO A DARKER ERA
• A GAY GUI TO FRANKFURT
• NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY
• NAZIS, SEX AND STASI PARANOIA: CISG THROUGH GAY LIFE COLD WAR GERMANY

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

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. However, the Nazi mpaign agast homosexualy and the regime’s zealo enforcement of Paragraph 175 ma life Nazi Germany dangero for gay men. The latter term dated to 1869, when a pamphlet advotg for crimalizatn of sexual relatns between men ed the term “Homosexualät” (“homosexualy”).

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

Some joed “iendship leagu” (Frndschaftsverbän), groups that polilly and socially anized gay men, lbian women, and others. Gay newspapers and journals, such as Die Frndschaft (Friendship) and Der Eigene (translated varly, but this ntext implyg “his own man”), ntributed to the growth of gay works.

QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL

Shortly thereafter, they sought to dismantle the visible gay cultur and works that had veloped durg the Weimar Republic.

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

Nohels, the Nazi closur and creased police surveillance ma far more difficult for gay men to nnect wh each other.

GAY LIFE BERL IS STARTG TO ECHO A DARKER ERA

In a further latn, the Nazis ed new laws and police practic to arrt and ta whout trial a limed number of gay men begng late 1933 and early 1934.

A GAY GUI TO FRANKFURT

Three events the years 1934–1936 radilized the Nazi regime’s mpaign agast homosexualy and led to more systematic opprsn of gay men. Fally, 1936 SS lear and Chief of the German Police Herich Himmler tablished the Reich Central Office for the Combatg of Homosexualy and Abortn (Reichszentrale zur Bekämpfung r Homosexualät und r Abtreibung). The notorly homophobic Himmler saw both homosexualy and abortn as threats to the German birth rate and th to the fate of the German people.

In rarer s, the Kripo or the Gtapo would send a man directly to a ncentratn mp as a “homosexual” (“homosexuell”) offenr.

NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY

For example, gay men tegorized by the Nazi regime as Aryan had far more optns than those tegorized as Jews or Roma (Gypsi).

Unverg the histori of gay men durg the Nazi era was difficult for much of the twentieth century bee of ntued prejudice agast same-sex sexualy and the ongog enforcement of Paragraph 175. The efforts of scholars and German gay rights anizatns have helped to brg the persecutn of gay men unr the Nazis to the public eye.

NAZIS, SEX AND STASI PARANOIA: CISG THROUGH GAY LIFE COLD WAR GERMANY

In the 1990s, the German ernment acknowledged “persecuted homosexuals” (“verfolgten Homosexuellen”) as victims of the Nazi regime. For the first time, gay men who had suffered at the hands of the Nazis beme eligible for moary pensatn om the German ernment for jtic perpetrated agast them.

A few years later, May 2008, the Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted unr Nazism (Denkmal für die im Natnalsozialism verfolgten Homosexuellen) was unveiled nearby Tiergarten park central Berl. Disver prent-day Berl as one of the most open and tolerant ci the world – the gay, lbian and queer scene is flourishg the German pal.

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. You n also fd tips & ntacts for gays, lbians, bi-, trans- and tersexuals as well as anizatns that support the queer muny our practil . 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.