Gay Berl: Bt Gay Bars, Drag Shows, Clubs, Mms, and Events

Contents:

• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
• THE 10 BEST BERL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BERL
• BERL'S GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS
• THE 5 BEST THGS TO DO SCHöNEBERG, BERLSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS SCHöNEBERG

QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL

© Cale BlakeThanks to an LGBTQ+ scene that has been thrivg for years, the bt gay bars, clubs and snas Berl are a mtBerl has earned s strip as one of the great gay pals of the world, wh a huge LGBTQ+ muny, one-of-a-kd queer bars and an attu to life that enurag habants to be whoever they please. Betty F***It was over a century ago that the homosexuals of the Wilhelme perd would ngregate around the bars and fés of Mte’s Mulackstrasse.

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

Today, as one of the few gay bars left Mte, Betty F*** remas a favoure for gays, hipsters and fashnistas lookg for a kickstart to the eveng.Photograph: Shutterstock4. Pop to one of the rotatg exhibns on gay, lbian and trans history, pese the abundant books and magaz stored upstairs, and then chill out over a quiet ffee or beer.Photograph: Silver Future5. Möbel OlfeIt’s an odd lotn for a gay bar, wedged among Turkish snack bars a down-at-heel 1960s hog velopment, but this unpretent space has been packed sce opened, maly wh gay and lbian beer lovers, thanks to the excellent range of brews on offer.

N UferEstablished the early 1970s, this is one of the cy’s olst gay fés and is loted off the beaten Schöneberg track. SüdblockA former beer-slger om Möbel Olfe opened this bar for Krzberg’s fast-expandg gay populatn 2010. Some thgs, we gus, are bt seen wh your own ey.The bt gay sna BerlDer BoilerA mastay on the Berl sna scene, Krzberg’s Der Boiler is renowned for s lively steam room and maze-like cisg area for men.

BERL'S GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS

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.

THE 5 BEST THGS TO DO SCHöNEBERG, BERLSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS SCHöNEBERG

Every summer the Pri Weeks are celebrated wh the Lbian-Gay Cy Ftival, CSD on the Spree and many other events. 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.

In Berl's Gay Mm (Schwul Mm) you will always ga new sights to the world of the gay, lbian and transgenr scene. 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. Right back to the 1920s, the district has been a hotspot of the gay scene and is a mag and twalk for queer Berlers and tourists.

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. Follow our tour through Schöneberg wh numero ports of ll for gays, lbians, bisexuals and transsexuals. 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. The rabow neighbourhood also prents self as Berl's gay leather & fetish district, and wh a self-nfint prence.

This cema maly shows gay and lbian films, and has been a bean for queer cema the rabow neighbourhood sce 1995.

Back the 1920s, Berl had already bee a haven and refuge for gays and lbians om all over the world. There are 170 clubs, bars and pubs for gays and lbians, and well as rto nightlife and a gay neighbourhood. 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.

The Scientific-Humanarian Commtee – the very first gay and lbian anisatn the world – was found Berl. One of the first gay venu Berl, notor for equent raids by the police, had already been open Jägerstrasse sce 1885. 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.

Another homosexual associatn is found wh an exclive Unn for Male Culture, which lled self the Communy of the Unique. 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.

The -owner of the rtrant, Alma Dalbelli, ntu nng the bs as the Como om 1905 on: was Berl's very first gay we bar.

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. Furthermore, the first gay film, entled Different om the Others (directed by Richard Oswald), is shown cemas.

It is a doctors' clic and, at the same time, a centre for the gay and lbian emancipatn movement.

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. In 1921, there is an Internatnal Travel Gui to promote them – the very first gay and lbian gui. 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 petg gay and lbian associatns are uned their fight agast Paragraph 175 (which crimalis homosexual acts). The Scientific-Humanarian Commtee had been filg petns sce 1897 llg on the Reichstag to abolish the special law agast homosexual men. In 1922, the gay and lbian' associatns briefly une to form an actn group to ensure their voic are heard durg an upg crimal jtice reform.

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.

At the end of the 1920s, the Brish thor Christopher Isherwood arriv Berl to sample the pleasur of s liberal gay nightlife. The new police director Berl had already had 14 of the most famo gay and lbian venu closed March. 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.