Between World Wars, Gay Culture Flourished In Berl : NPR

Contents:

• BLACK AND GAY BERL - BERL FOM
• THE 10 BEST BERL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BERL
• LGBTQ+ BERL – THE CY’S BT GAY BARS, CLUBS AND SNAS
• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
• BERL'S GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS
• BERL & GAY LIBERATN LONG BEFORE STONEWALL
• GAY LIFE BERL IS STARTG TO ECHO A DARKER ERA
• BETWEEN WORLD WARS, GAY CULTURE FLOURISHED IN BERL

BLACK AND GAY BERL - BERL FOM

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

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. 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.

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. 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. Homosexuelle Aktn Wtberl is found Berl 1971, om which the femist awakeng emerg 1975 wh the foundg of the Lbian Aktnszentm – along wh the lbian archive Spnbon as an iative for the disvery, and prervatn, of female love.

LGBTQ+ BERL – THE CY’S BT GAY BARS, CLUBS AND SNAS

One year later, the transvte Charlotte von Mahlsdorf opens a venue for gays and lbians that will later bee legendary her mm dited to artefacts om the late 19th century. Choirs, sports associatns and hikg groups add diversy and vibrancy to the scene Aids-Hilfe is formed 1985, and benefs om wispread support and be a new actor the gay movement. In September 2017, a monument to the world's first gay and lbian emancipatn movement, which was iated by the gay and lbian associatn, is unveiled on Magn-Hirschfeld-Ufer, behd the Feral Chancellery.

It is a symbol of the diversy of sexualy and genr, and a metaphor for a nfint, flourishg scene – a landspe that was first nceived of, put to the tt, and ma possible the 1920s – when Berl was a role mol for an ternatnal gay and lbian pal which all queer people uld fd a haven and refuge.

QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL

On 1 October 2017 – a Sunday – the first gay and lbian upl marry Germany, cludg Volker Beck, a polician for the Green party, who marri his spoe Berl-Krzberg after a long fight to be able to say “I do”. It is said that there were more than 100 venu for homosexuals at that time, rangg om the famo Eldorado to the ladi dance hall Zur Manuela through to the large balls anised by var homosexual associatns. As early as 1897, Magn Hirschfeld found the Wissenschaftlich-Humanäre Komee (The Scientific-Humanarian Commtee) Berl, as the first ever gay and lbian human rights anisatn.

BERL'S GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS

From 1919, he ran the legendary Instut für Sexualwissenschaft (Instute for Sexual Science), which ma an important ntributn to the emancipatn of gays and lbians all over the world.

After the supprsn of the entire gay and lbian muny and subculture by the Nazis, wasn’t until 1971 that the homosexual scene revered aga – which is when the gay movement Homosexuelle Aktn Wtberl (Homosexual Actn Wt Berl) was found. Sce 1993, the gay/lbian cy ftival has been celebrated every year – is the largt of s kd worldwi and ensur to this day that Berl is home to the most diverse, vibrant and popular gay/lbian scen Europe. The days, up to 750, 000 people celebrate the CSD Berl the streets of the cy – no matter whether you are gay, lbian, bisexual, heterosexual, transgenr or another sexual orientatn.

BERL & GAY LIBERATN LONG BEFORE STONEWALL

As I already poted out, Berl has been at the centre of LGBT culture sce the early 1900s, when the cy was the unofficial gay pal of see, Berl has been a cy of ‘firsts’ on the road to LGBT equaly.

GAY LIFE BERL IS STARTG TO ECHO A DARKER ERA

In the 1920s, Berl beme the first cy the world to have a gay district, and Schoneberg went on to host the first-ever gay monstratn recent years, several other gay districts have popped up around the cy and sprkl of the gay scene n be found everywhere. But you are sure to see thgs that you’ll unlikely ever experience aga a nightclub members of the LGBT muny do go to the standard nights at K Kat, the exclive gay men only night lled Revolver Party is on once a month. Neighbourhood: FriedrichshaOpeng hours: Every Thursday: 11 pm – early HoursPrice range: $$? @antoejulienGay-iendly hostels BerlLGBT travellers needn’t worry about experiencg any discrimatn when bookg hostels Berl.

The guid tour about Berl’s History of Sex Augmented Realy starts jt like the history of the world’s first LGBTIQ rights movement: wh Karl Herich Ulrichs–a man born long before the emergence of the ia of a homosexual inty.

In the guid tour, people learn how, 1864, Ulrichs published the first of a total of 12 wrgs lled “Forschungen über das Räthsel r mannmännlichen Liebe” (Rearch on the Mystery of Male-Male Love) – a masterpiece of gay history. For creatg the first gay inti and layg a rnerstone of gay history, Karl Herich Ulrichs is often referred to as “the first homosexual world history” by famo German sexologist Volkmar Sigch. In the guid tour, people disver why von Meerscheidt-Hüllsem believed would be easier to enforce §175 and ntrol male homosexualy if gay and bisexual men were allowed to have their bars, clubs, and other lotns.

BETWEEN WORLD WARS, GAY CULTURE FLOURISHED IN BERL

Durg a vis to Berl, a young gay Christopher Isherwood was so imprsed by the sexual liberty of the cy that he cid to move to the street “Nollendorfstraße” Berl-Schöneberg 1929. Broadly fluential for Hirschfeld’s fight, which not only clud gay men but the entire LGBTIQ spectm, was his book Berl’s Third Sex–a thorough study of homosexualy Berl. “There’s been a gay bar of some kd at this addrs for more than 100 years, ” Nash, an energetic 54-year-old, explaed to a walkg tour he was leadg as he gtured enthiastilly at a neon sign outsi, which featured ttle wh large nose rgs.

But LGBT-rights groups have warned of a parallel rise of vlent homophobia mastream the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party stormed to the Bunstag last year, s policians have lled for homosexuals to be imprisoned, vowed to repeal gay marriage, and nounced those sufferg om HIV.

They are also remrs of Germany’s fascist past and, rights groups worry, signs of dangero future clamp-downs on vulnerable is a powerfully queer place—gay culture, polics, activism, clubs, and sex reverberate through the cy. But “Germany is not the shy, progrsive untry wish to be portrayed as, ” says Katr Hugendubel, the advocy director of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn Europe (ILGA-Europe), which reprents more than 1, 000 LGBT 1918, when Bull’s precsor first opened, Weimar-era Germany was embarkg on a sndalo . Berl’s reputatn for wild immoraly and s unually liberal law enforcement, by ntrast, helped turn the cy to Europe’s undisputed gay the 1920s, Berl was home to an timated 85, 000 lbians, a thrivg gay-media scene, and around 100 LGBT bars and clubs, where artists and wrers mixed wh cross-drsg ll girls who supposedly spired the Some Like It Hot director Billy Wilr.