Explore our gay travel gui to Germany featurg LGBTQ+ safety tips, gay rights , top ci & attractns, where to stay and more!
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14 GAY-IENDLY CI THAT LGBT TRAVELLERS LOVE
* lgbt friendly cities germany *
Heilberg aniz an annual gay pri together wh the nearby ci of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen. Sce 2016, fans and lols have anized an annual LGBTQ+ day lled GayRedDay to enjoy Europa Park as one muny. But actually, the first public LGBTQ+ rights prott took place Germany, over a century earlier, 1867—one year before the term ‘homosexualy’ was ed, German!
In 1871, Germany passed the ultimate anti-gay law, Paragraph 175. The Nazis ma more severe and imprisoned 10, 000 gay men (and some lbians, although they were not vered by Paragraph 175) ncentratn mps, where they were marked wh the pk triangle—and a majory died. But there is plenty to see today to remember the highs and lows of German LGBTQ+ history, om the Monument to Homosexuals Persecuted unr Natnal Socialism and the Schwul Mm (Gay Mm), both Berl, to the Dtsche Eiche bar and bathhoe Munich, where Freddie Mercury hung out the 1970s.
And let’s not fet Bavaria’s gay (and/or queer) kg, Mad Ludwig, and his Wagnerian fantasy stle, Nschwanste—the spiratn for Disney’s Snow Whe’s Castle. Tradnally, Germany is known to be a gay-iendly but relatively nservative European untry.