Queer & gay Berl: Your gui for LGBTQ+ Berl |

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• THE 10 BEST GERMANY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS GERMANY
• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
• THE BT LGBT BARS COLOGNE, GERMANY © LUDOVIC BERTRON / WIKICOMMONS | © LUDOVIC BERTRON / WIKICOMMONS EVELYN SMALLWOOD 20 MAY 2020 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT THE FUN-LOVG CULTURE COLOGNE WEL WH ARMS WI OPEN ANYONE WHO IS ABLE TO BUY A KöLSCH, WHICH PROBABLY GO SOME WAY TO EXPLAG WHY THE LGBT MUNY OM ALL OVER GERMANY AND BEYOND E HERE FOR A GREAT NIGHT OUT. THE GAY SCENE TOWN HAS TWO CENTR: THE YOUNG AND TRENDI GO TO ALL THE BARS AND CLUBS AROUND RUDOLFPLTAZ-SCHAAFENSTRASSE AND THE OLR, LEATHER-SCENE GUYS HANG OUT THE HMARKT-MATHIASSTRASSE THE ALTSTADT. WHAT FOLLOWS IS OUR PICKS FOR THE BT OF THE BT. VIEW ALL TRIPS EX-CORNER BAR, GERMAN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT THIS ZY BAR IS THE MOTHER OF ALL GAY BARS COLOGNE, THE SENSE THAT IS WHERE ALL THE PRETTY YOUNG THGS DRK AND FLIRT WELL TO THE WEE SMALL HOURS. THERE IS A HAPPY HOUR EVERY NIGHT TO GET THE PARTY STARTED. FOOD AND MIC AS YOU WOULD EXPECT WH THE OCSNAL JECTN OF SCHLAGER – A SPECIAL SORT OF CHEY GERMAN FOLK POP. EXILE ON THE CORNER BAR, GERMAN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT EXILE IS ANOTHER ONE OF THE BIG PLAYERS ON SCHAAFENSTRAßE TRIFECTA. THE NEAT AND NON-KSCH DéR, ROTATG DJS AND IENDLY BARTENRS KEEP THE VIBE CHILL AND STRS-EE AT EXILE BUT DON’T MAKE THE MISTAKE OF THKG THAT MEANS ’S A BUNCH OF OLD GUYS WHO DON’T KNOW HOW TO HAVE FUN. THERE IS AT LEAST 1 BIG PARTY A MONTH TO KEEP THGS HOPPG. STATN 2B BAR, GERMAN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT IF CISG IS ON THE AGENDA FOR THE EVENG, THEN STATN 2B IS THE PLACE TO BE. MORE THAN 400 SQUARE METERS (4300 SQUARE FEET) OVER TWO FLOORS WILL PROVI PLENTY OF OPPORTUNY TO SS OUT THE SUATN. UPSTAIRS THERE’S A BAR, DANCE FLOOR AND STAGE. DOWNSTAIRS, A PLAY AREA WH BS, A MAZE, SLGS, A DARK ROOM AND GLORY HOL AWAS THOSE UP FOR FURTHER ADVENTURE. CHECK THE WEEKLY SEX PARTY PROGRAM TO SEE WHAT’S ON. CARIBBEAN COLOMBIA DISVER COLOMBIA’S CARIBBEAN AST, OM CARTAGENA TO PALOMO VIA JUNGL, RIVERS AND ISLANDS. VIEW TRIP IRON COCKTAIL LOUNGE BAR, COCKTAIL BAR, GERMAN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT © PIXABAY ONE OF THE CY’S FEW BARS GEARED TOWARDS WOMEN AND THE PEOPLE THAT LOVE THEM. THE BAR WAS RENOVATED A FEW YEARS AGO AND IS NOW A SUPER CHILL CKTAIL BAR SERVG TERTG DRKS. THOUGH MEN ARE ALLOWED TO JO THEIR FEMALE IENDS FOR A DRK, ’S A MAJORY LBIAN CROWD. KATTEWKEL BAR, GERMAN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT LADI THAT LOVE LADI THAT LOVE TO CHILL TY, NEIGHBOURHOOD BARS WILL FD KATTEWKEL UP-AND-G EIGELSTE TO BE JT WHAT THE DOCTOR ORRED. THERE’S REGULAR BGO NIGHTS AND DRAG SHOWS BUT THE MA VIBE IS QUEER GEMüTLICHKE. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. RUHRPOTT BAR, PUB, CONTEMPORARY SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT © SEO SNGWON / PIXABAY THIS FE AND CKTAIL BAR IS PRETTY NEW ON THE COLOGNE GAY SCENE, BUT HAS QUICKLY TABLISHED SELF AS A PLACE TO GO WH GREAT FOOD AND FANTASTIC CKTAILS. IT’S THE PERFECT SPOT IF YOU WANT TO ACTUALLY TALK TO AND EVEN HEAR THE PEOPLE YOU ME WH. THERE’S NO DANCE FLOOR. MUMU BAR, GERMAN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT IF YOU’RE LS THAN 25 AND LIKE TO DANCE TIL YOU DROP, HEAD TO MUMU. IT’S ONE OF THE CRAZIER GAY BARS COLOGNE, BUT THEN AGA, KIDS THE DAYS… WH REGULAR KARAOKE NIGHTS, DRAG PARTI AND A MD-BOGGLG NUMBER OF OTHER THEMED EVENGS AND DANCE PARTI, THERE’S ALWAYS SOMETHG WORTH SEEG AT MUMU. AT THE VEY LEAST, MAKE SURE YOU TAKE A TRIP TO THE BATHROOM. VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?
• LGBTQ+ BERL – THE CY’S BT GAY BARS, CLUBS AND SNAS
• THE 5 BEST COLOGNE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS COLOGNE
• GAY LIFE BERL IS STARTG TO ECHO A DARKER ERA
• NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY
• THE 10 BEST BERL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BERL

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

43 plac sorted by traveler favorGay Bars • SpasFriedrichsha-Krzberg (Borough)Gay Bars • Dance Clubs & DissShowg rults 1-30 of 43What travelers are saygI thk Der Boiler is one of the bt snas Europe. Tripadvisor performs checks on was our first bar vised when we arrived Frankfurt as is part of the gay scene the cy. 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.

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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.

QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ 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.

THE BT LGBT BARS COLOGNE, GERMANY © LUDOVIC BERTRON / WIKICOMMONS | © LUDOVIC BERTRON / WIKICOMMONS EVELYN SMALLWOOD 20 MAY 2020 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT THE FUN-LOVG CULTURE COLOGNE WEL WH ARMS WI OPEN ANYONE WHO IS ABLE TO BUY A KöLSCH, WHICH PROBABLY GO SOME WAY TO EXPLAG WHY THE LGBT MUNY OM ALL OVER GERMANY AND BEYOND E HERE FOR A GREAT NIGHT OUT. THE GAY SCENE TOWN HAS TWO CENTR: THE YOUNG AND TRENDI GO TO ALL THE BARS AND CLUBS AROUND RUDOLFPLTAZ-SCHAAFENSTRASSE AND THE OLR, LEATHER-SCENE GUYS HANG OUT THE HMARKT-MATHIASSTRASSE THE ALTSTADT. WHAT FOLLOWS IS OUR PICKS FOR THE BT OF THE BT. VIEW ALL TRIPS EX-CORNER BAR, GERMAN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT THIS ZY BAR IS THE MOTHER OF ALL GAY BARS COLOGNE, THE SENSE THAT IS WHERE ALL THE PRETTY YOUNG THGS DRK AND FLIRT WELL TO THE WEE SMALL HOURS. THERE IS A HAPPY HOUR EVERY NIGHT TO GET THE PARTY STARTED. FOOD AND MIC AS YOU WOULD EXPECT WH THE OCSNAL JECTN OF SCHLAGER – A SPECIAL SORT OF CHEY GERMAN FOLK POP. EXILE ON THE CORNER BAR, GERMAN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT EXILE IS ANOTHER ONE OF THE BIG PLAYERS ON SCHAAFENSTRAßE TRIFECTA. THE NEAT AND NON-KSCH DéR, ROTATG DJS AND IENDLY BARTENRS KEEP THE VIBE CHILL AND STRS-EE AT EXILE BUT DON’T MAKE THE MISTAKE OF THKG THAT MEANS ’S A BUNCH OF OLD GUYS WHO DON’T KNOW HOW TO HAVE FUN. THERE IS AT LEAST 1 BIG PARTY A MONTH TO KEEP THGS HOPPG. STATN 2B BAR, GERMAN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT IF CISG IS ON THE AGENDA FOR THE EVENG, THEN STATN 2B IS THE PLACE TO BE. MORE THAN 400 SQUARE METERS (4300 SQUARE FEET) OVER TWO FLOORS WILL PROVI PLENTY OF OPPORTUNY TO SS OUT THE SUATN. UPSTAIRS THERE’S A BAR, DANCE FLOOR AND STAGE. DOWNSTAIRS, A PLAY AREA WH BS, A MAZE, SLGS, A DARK ROOM AND GLORY HOL AWAS THOSE UP FOR FURTHER ADVENTURE. CHECK THE WEEKLY SEX PARTY PROGRAM TO SEE WHAT’S ON. CARIBBEAN COLOMBIA DISVER COLOMBIA’S CARIBBEAN AST, OM CARTAGENA TO PALOMO VIA JUNGL, RIVERS AND ISLANDS. VIEW TRIP IRON COCKTAIL LOUNGE BAR, COCKTAIL BAR, GERMAN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT © PIXABAY ONE OF THE CY’S FEW BARS GEARED TOWARDS WOMEN AND THE PEOPLE THAT LOVE THEM. THE BAR WAS RENOVATED A FEW YEARS AGO AND IS NOW A SUPER CHILL CKTAIL BAR SERVG TERTG DRKS. THOUGH MEN ARE ALLOWED TO JO THEIR FEMALE IENDS FOR A DRK, ’S A MAJORY LBIAN CROWD. KATTEWKEL BAR, GERMAN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT LADI THAT LOVE LADI THAT LOVE TO CHILL TY, NEIGHBOURHOOD BARS WILL FD KATTEWKEL UP-AND-G EIGELSTE TO BE JT WHAT THE DOCTOR ORRED. THERE’S REGULAR BGO NIGHTS AND DRAG SHOWS BUT THE MA VIBE IS QUEER GEMüTLICHKE. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. RUHRPOTT BAR, PUB, CONTEMPORARY SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT © SEO SNGWON / PIXABAY THIS FE AND CKTAIL BAR IS PRETTY NEW ON THE COLOGNE GAY SCENE, BUT HAS QUICKLY TABLISHED SELF AS A PLACE TO GO WH GREAT FOOD AND FANTASTIC CKTAILS. IT’S THE PERFECT SPOT IF YOU WANT TO ACTUALLY TALK TO AND EVEN HEAR THE PEOPLE YOU ME WH. THERE’S NO DANCE FLOOR. MUMU BAR, GERMAN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT IF YOU’RE LS THAN 25 AND LIKE TO DANCE TIL YOU DROP, HEAD TO MUMU. IT’S ONE OF THE CRAZIER GAY BARS COLOGNE, BUT THEN AGA, KIDS THE DAYS… WH REGULAR KARAOKE NIGHTS, DRAG PARTI AND A MD-BOGGLG NUMBER OF OTHER THEMED EVENGS AND DANCE PARTI, THERE’S ALWAYS SOMETHG WORTH SEEG AT MUMU. AT THE VEY LEAST, MAKE SURE YOU TAKE A TRIP TO THE BATHROOM. VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?

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

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

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. 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 COLOGNE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS COLOGNE

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.

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.

GAY LIFE BERL IS STARTG TO ECHO A DARKER ERA

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.

NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY

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 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.

Risg om the ash and fyg the post-war stery, gays and lbians re-emerge, holdg their first balls aga the midst of the bble of the stroyed cy om 1946 onwards. A Berl-based group om the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee was found 1949 to rume the efforts ma by the first gay and lbian movement.

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

Many men once aga bee the victim of state prosecutn unr the law agast homosexuals, a Nazi law that remas on the books and has sce been tightened.

When the Berl Wall is built 1961, the divid cy of Berl los s leadg role, and s appeal, as the cy of eedom for gays and lbians for a to e.

As so-lled Rosa Radikale (pk radils), they revent homosexualy, unrstandg as a polil and anti-palistic promise of liberatn.