Nelson Mil Theatre Prents: A Very Gay Cabaret | Nelson Mil Theatre | May 12, 2022

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• A VERY GAY CABARET
• A (VERY) GAY CABARET IS UNRWAY
• NELSON MIL THEATRE PRENTS: A VERY GAY CABARET
• A VERY GAY CABARET

A VERY GAY CABARET

A Very Gay Cabaret is an annual baret and variety night Nelson, celebratg and upliftg the LGBTQIA+ muny. Come to see our fabulo (Very) Gay Cabaret, openg on the 12th May for 3 NIGHTS ONLY!

Nelson Mil Theatre Prents: A Very Gay Cabaret | Nelson Mil Theatre | May 12, 2022. For three nights only, A Very Gay Cabaret will showse lol talent as they sweetly sg same-love duets, belt out genr bent rock classics, and dance out to all your favoure LGBT mil theatre numbers!

A (VERY) GAY CABARET IS UNRWAY

Whisnant:As early as the turn of the century, Berl's gay scene was attractg such notoriety that equently was mentned tourist lerature, liftg up the cy's gay scene as proof of the evils of urban life and the dangers of morny; them, Berl beme the untry's Sodom and Gomorrah put together, a sure sign of the land's the stag of Berl, the Tiller Girls showed off their legs, dancg a Rockett-style performance that amazed and tillated spectators. For the general public, this world was bewilrg--and que possibly Germany's gay men and lbians, though, Berl reprented promise. Its gay scen offered excg plac to hunt for love and happs.

"Diverse, but DividMagn Hirschfeld, a Jewish German physician, sexologist and pneerg gay rights advote, was well acquated wh Berl's scene and mented on the diversy among the bars. Bis the Mother Cat, Nacke vised several other bars that were gatherg plac for gay men om the workg class and lower middle class. "In many of the rtrants, effemate homosexuals felt relaxed enough to "give ee re to their feme nature.

By far the most famo was the Eldorado a nightclub whose ftive atmosphere attracted not only homosexuals but also artists, thors, celebri, and tourists wantg to admire a piece of "nt" Berl or tch a glimpse of someone Lbian Club SceneLbians uld also be found some of the bars that were voted mostly to gay men [and were] often seen the larger clubs of the 1920s, such as the Topp and the Eldorado. The Dorian Gray, one of the olst and bt-known gay clubs by the Weimar era, had a special night set asi for the turn of the century, there were also a handful of exclively lbian bars the cy.

NELSON MIL THEATRE PRENTS: A VERY GAY CABARET

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A VERY GAY CABARET

"Gay and Lbian BallsBerl's var homosexual tablishments beme famo for the elaborate gay balls that they would throw on regular ocsns. One French observer of the cy around the turn of the century noted that gay balls were held often several tim a week different clubs durg the ftive season between October and Easter.