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Contents:

• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
• THE 10 BEST BERL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BERL
• THE BT GAY AND QUEER-IENDLY BARS AND CLUBS BERL
• BERL'S GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• THE 5 BEST THGS TO DO SCHöNEBERG, BERLSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS SCHöNEBERG
• BERL CY GUI: WORLD-CLASS GAY CULTURE

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.

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.

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

N UferEstablished the early 1970s, this is one of the cy’s olst gay fés and is loted off the beaten Schöneberg track. 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.

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. In Berl's Gay Mm (Schwul Mm) you will always ga new sights to the world of the gay, lbian and transgenr scene.

THE BT GAY AND QUEER-IENDLY BARS AND CLUBS BERL

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. 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.

BERL'S GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS

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

One of the first gay venu Berl, notor for equent raids by the police, had already been open Jägerstrasse sce 1885.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

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

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.

BERL CY GUI: WORLD-CLASS GAY CULTURE

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. 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 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.