Photographs reveal everyday life of gay upl the early 20th Century | Daily Mail Onle

Contents:

• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
• INSI THE WORLD OF PETER BERL, GROUNDBREAKG PHOTOGRAPHER AND GAY IN
• THE GAY MEN PROJECT
• PETER BERL: BERL'S MOST CONTTED IN LUCY ANDIA 09 JANUARY 2017 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT FOR PETER BERL, ART IS LIFE AND LIFE IS ART. HE HAS BEEN LLED BOTH “THE BETTIE PAGE OF BEEFKE” AND “THE GRETA GARBO OF GAY PORN” AS A FIVE GAY SEX IN OF THE 1970S AND 1980S. FOR MANY, HE BROUGHT ARTISTIC LEGIMACY TO GAY EROTI WH HIS ARTFULLY POSED SELF-PORTRAS. VIEW ALL TRIPS BERL WALL, EAST SI GALLERY – DMRI VLADIMIROVICH VBEL | © FREEPENGU/WIKICOMMONS PETER BERL WAS PHOTOGRAPHED BY THE LIK OF ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE AND ANDY WARHOL, AND PATED BY TOM OF FLAND, WHO NSOLIDATED THE FETISHIZED MALE TO A SEXUAL GENRE. LATER, AFTER LOSG MOST OF HIS CLOST IENDS TO AIDS, HE RETREATED TO BEE A SELF-PROFSED RECLE. HE EMERGED OM THE SHADOWS 2005 WH THE RELEASE OF THSKI’S DOCUMENTARY, THAT MAN: PETER BERL. ARMED WH TIGHT PANTS, A HIGHLY-FED CROTCH, AND A DUTCH PAGE BOY HAIRCUT, PETER BERL WALKED THE STREETS OF BERL, LONDON, ROME, AND LATER SAN FRANCIS, SEARCHG FOR “NTACT.” “BEFORE I WAS EVEN PETER BERL, I WAS JT TRYG TO HAVE A GOOD TIME AND I LOOKED FOR NTACT, BUT MY SE ONLY MALE NTACT FOR SEX. AND THAT WAS WHAT I WAS OCCUPIED WH. I WAS NOT TERTED POLICS. I WAS NOT TERTED A REER. I WAS NOT TERTED MONEY. I WAS TERTED HAVG A GOOD TIME. AND I GAVE MYSELF A VERY GOOD TIME, I WAS JT LOOKG FOR THAT.” TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP CROATIA MEXI EGYPT SPA TURKEY JAPAN INDIA ICELAND MOROC SOUTH AI BALI GREECE ECUADOR THAILAND PETER BERL | © PETER BERL PETER BERL GREW UP BERL THE 1940S AND 1950S. HE STUDIED PHOTOGRAPHY AND HIS FIRST JOB WAS WORKG FOR THE FASHN PHOTOGRAPHY JOURNAL, VIP SHKEL. THIS “ORDARY LIFE,” HOWEVER, DID NOT LAST LONG. A DORIAN GRAY-TYPE CHARACTER, BERL ONCE UGHT SIGHT OF HIS OWN REFLECTN A SHOP WDOW PARIS; MISTAKG HIS OWN FACE FOR THAT OF ANOTHER AND BELIEVED HE HAD FOUND TE LOVE. IN A WAY HE HAD, AS HIS LIFE’S WORK BEME THE CREATN OF A RP OF IMAGERY CELEBRATG AND DULGG HIS OWN BETY. ALTHOUGH NEVER HIS TENTN, HE TRANSFORMED GAY EROTI TO AN ART FORM, CREATG IMAG THAT SPOKE TO AN DIENCE WIR THAN JT THE GAY WORLD. HIS NSTANT AROAL STIMULAT A TANGIBLE ENERGY – THE PROCS OF SCG HIMSELF HE SC THE VIEWER. IN A PARADOX OF CREATN, HIS IMAG DO NOT SPEAK OF SELF-OBSSN OR ARROGANCE, BUT OF NFINCE AND HONTY. “WHEN I WAS PETER BERL I FELT REALLY GOOD ABOUT MYSELF AND THAT MAYBE ACROSS MY PHOTOGRAPHS. THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE VERY REAL, THEY ARE NOT STAGED – THEY ARE NOT FAKED. AND MAYBE THAT’S WHERE I MAKE A DIFFERENCE WH ALL THE OTHER GUYS. I AM JT HONT AND HONTY SORT OF TRANSCENDS EVERYTHG ELSE AND THAT’S WHY MY NAME IS STILL THERE BEE THERE’S AN HONT PERSON WH A SORT OF LOOK AT THAT TIME AND HE DID WHAT HE DID AND HE DID WELL AND THERE IS.” DOUBLE EXPOSURE | © PETER BERL AFTER MOVG TO SAN FRANCIS THE EARLY 1970S, BERL STARRED TWO FILMS THAT ARE NOW CULT PORN CLASSICS, NIGHTS BLACK LEATHER (1972) AND THAT BOY (1974). THE FILMS PUT HIM ON THE MAP. WHILE HIS PHOTOGRAPHS MA HIM A CHARACTER, HIS FILMS MA HIM AN IN. IN AN HONT FORM OF SELF-REPRENTATN, THIS VISUAL SOLIDIFITN OF PLEASURE WAS THE RULT OF A LIFE’S TRAJECTORY, CHASG THE “NTACT.” “IT JT HAPPENED. MY LIFE HAPPENED, WAS NOT ME HAVG A VISN, WHEN I STARTED TO PHOTOGRAPH MYSELF THAT’S HOW STARTED. A IEND SAID, ‘OH PETER MAYBE YOU SHOULD JT SHOW ’ AND HE HAD A GALLERY BERL AND HE PUT ON THE WALL AND THAT’S WHERE STARTED TO BE PUBLIC. AND THEN OF URSE I MA TWO FILMS BEE I MET THIS GUY SAN FRANCIS AND HE HAD A MERA, AND HE SAID YOU KNOW LET’S MAKE A PORNO. BEE THAT’S THE ONLY THG I WAS SO OBSSED WH: SEX.” THE MAN THAT IS PETER BERL, NOW 72, LIV SAN FRANCIS. HE SPEAKS OF PETER BERL THE THIRD PERSON, AS AN ENTY TIED SOLIDLY TO THE PAST, OZEN TIME BY VIRTUE OF HIS PHOTOGRAPHS AND FILMS. WHEN HE ANSWERS THE PHONE HE PRETENDS TO BE PETER BERL’S ASSISTANT, CLAIMG THAT THE MAN I’M AFTER IS OCCUPIED A MEETG WH HIS ACUNTANT. I DON’T UNRSTAND THIS JOKE UNTIL AFTER OUR CHAT: THE ABSURDY OF SOMEONE LIKE PETER BERL GROUNDG HIMSELF WH SOMETHG AS BANAL AS AN ACUNTANT. MAJESTIC TURKEY TRAVEL OM THE BAZAARS OF ISTANBUL TO THE BETIFUL BEACH OF ANTALYA. VIEW TRIP PETER BERL 2 | © PETER BERL TODAY, PETER, WHOSE LAST NAME REMAS ANONYMO, SPENDS HIS TIME AT HOME, NTEMPLATG AND CLEANG, DISTANCG HIMSELF OM A WORLD THAT HE FDS HUMORO YET TRAGIC. 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 BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?
• LGBTQ+ BERL – THE CY’S BT GAY BARS, CLUBS AND SNAS
• PHOTOGRAPHS REVEAL EVERYDAY LIFE OF GAY UPL THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY

QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL

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. 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.

INSI THE WORLD OF PETER BERL, GROUNDBREAKG PHOTOGRAPHER AND GAY IN

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.

THE GAY MEN PROJECT

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.

PETER BERL: BERL'S MOST CONTTED IN LUCY ANDIA 09 JANUARY 2017 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT FOR PETER BERL, ART IS LIFE AND LIFE IS ART. HE HAS BEEN LLED BOTH “THE BETTIE PAGE OF BEEFKE” AND “THE GRETA GARBO OF GAY PORN” AS A FIVE GAY SEX IN OF THE 1970S AND 1980S. FOR MANY, HE BROUGHT ARTISTIC LEGIMACY TO GAY EROTI WH HIS ARTFULLY POSED SELF-PORTRAS. VIEW ALL TRIPS BERL WALL, EAST SI GALLERY – DMRI VLADIMIROVICH VBEL | © FREEPENGU/WIKICOMMONS PETER BERL WAS PHOTOGRAPHED BY THE LIK OF ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE AND ANDY WARHOL, AND PATED BY TOM OF FLAND, WHO NSOLIDATED THE FETISHIZED MALE TO A SEXUAL GENRE. LATER, AFTER LOSG MOST OF HIS CLOST IENDS TO AIDS, HE RETREATED TO BEE A SELF-PROFSED RECLE. HE EMERGED OM THE SHADOWS 2005 WH THE RELEASE OF THSKI’S DOCUMENTARY, THAT MAN: PETER BERL. ARMED WH TIGHT PANTS, A HIGHLY-FED CROTCH, AND A DUTCH PAGE BOY HAIRCUT, PETER BERL WALKED THE STREETS OF BERL, LONDON, ROME, AND LATER SAN FRANCIS, SEARCHG FOR “NTACT.” “BEFORE I WAS EVEN PETER BERL, I WAS JT TRYG TO HAVE A GOOD TIME AND I LOOKED FOR NTACT, BUT MY SE ONLY MALE NTACT FOR SEX. AND THAT WAS WHAT I WAS OCCUPIED WH. I WAS NOT TERTED POLICS. I WAS NOT TERTED A REER. I WAS NOT TERTED MONEY. I WAS TERTED HAVG A GOOD TIME. AND I GAVE MYSELF A VERY GOOD TIME, I WAS JT LOOKG FOR THAT.” TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP CROATIA MEXI EGYPT SPA TURKEY JAPAN INDIA ICELAND MOROC SOUTH AI BALI GREECE ECUADOR THAILAND PETER BERL | © PETER BERL PETER BERL GREW UP BERL THE 1940S AND 1950S. HE STUDIED PHOTOGRAPHY AND HIS FIRST JOB WAS WORKG FOR THE FASHN PHOTOGRAPHY JOURNAL, VIP SHKEL. THIS “ORDARY LIFE,” HOWEVER, DID NOT LAST LONG. A DORIAN GRAY-TYPE CHARACTER, BERL ONCE UGHT SIGHT OF HIS OWN REFLECTN A SHOP WDOW PARIS; MISTAKG HIS OWN FACE FOR THAT OF ANOTHER AND BELIEVED HE HAD FOUND TE LOVE. IN A WAY HE HAD, AS HIS LIFE’S WORK BEME THE CREATN OF A RP OF IMAGERY CELEBRATG AND DULGG HIS OWN BETY. ALTHOUGH NEVER HIS TENTN, HE TRANSFORMED GAY EROTI TO AN ART FORM, CREATG IMAG THAT SPOKE TO AN DIENCE WIR THAN JT THE GAY WORLD. HIS NSTANT AROAL STIMULAT A TANGIBLE ENERGY – THE PROCS OF SCG HIMSELF HE SC THE VIEWER. IN A PARADOX OF CREATN, HIS IMAG DO NOT SPEAK OF SELF-OBSSN OR ARROGANCE, BUT OF NFINCE AND HONTY. “WHEN I WAS PETER BERL I FELT REALLY GOOD ABOUT MYSELF AND THAT MAYBE ACROSS MY PHOTOGRAPHS. THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE VERY REAL, THEY ARE NOT STAGED – THEY ARE NOT FAKED. AND MAYBE THAT’S WHERE I MAKE A DIFFERENCE WH ALL THE OTHER GUYS. I AM JT HONT AND HONTY SORT OF TRANSCENDS EVERYTHG ELSE AND THAT’S WHY MY NAME IS STILL THERE BEE THERE’S AN HONT PERSON WH A SORT OF LOOK AT THAT TIME AND HE DID WHAT HE DID AND HE DID WELL AND THERE IS.” DOUBLE EXPOSURE | © PETER BERL AFTER MOVG TO SAN FRANCIS THE EARLY 1970S, BERL STARRED TWO FILMS THAT ARE NOW CULT PORN CLASSICS, NIGHTS BLACK LEATHER (1972) AND THAT BOY (1974). THE FILMS PUT HIM ON THE MAP. WHILE HIS PHOTOGRAPHS MA HIM A CHARACTER, HIS FILMS MA HIM AN IN. IN AN HONT FORM OF SELF-REPRENTATN, THIS VISUAL SOLIDIFITN OF PLEASURE WAS THE RULT OF A LIFE’S TRAJECTORY, CHASG THE “NTACT.” “IT JT HAPPENED. MY LIFE HAPPENED, WAS NOT ME HAVG A VISN, WHEN I STARTED TO PHOTOGRAPH MYSELF THAT’S HOW STARTED. A IEND SAID, ‘OH PETER MAYBE YOU SHOULD JT SHOW ’ AND HE HAD A GALLERY BERL AND HE PUT ON THE WALL AND THAT’S WHERE STARTED TO BE PUBLIC. AND THEN OF URSE I MA TWO FILMS BEE I MET THIS GUY SAN FRANCIS AND HE HAD A MERA, AND HE SAID YOU KNOW LET’S MAKE A PORNO. BEE THAT’S THE ONLY THG I WAS SO OBSSED WH: SEX.” THE MAN THAT IS PETER BERL, NOW 72, LIV SAN FRANCIS. HE SPEAKS OF PETER BERL THE THIRD PERSON, AS AN ENTY TIED SOLIDLY TO THE PAST, OZEN TIME BY VIRTUE OF HIS PHOTOGRAPHS AND FILMS. WHEN HE ANSWERS THE PHONE HE PRETENDS TO BE PETER BERL’S ASSISTANT, CLAIMG THAT THE MAN I’M AFTER IS OCCUPIED A MEETG WH HIS ACUNTANT. I DON’T UNRSTAND THIS JOKE UNTIL AFTER OUR CHAT: THE ABSURDY OF SOMEONE LIKE PETER BERL GROUNDG HIMSELF WH SOMETHG AS BANAL AS AN ACUNTANT. MAJESTIC TURKEY TRAVEL OM THE BAZAARS OF ISTANBUL TO THE BETIFUL BEACH OF ANTALYA. VIEW TRIP PETER BERL 2 | © PETER BERL TODAY, PETER, WHOSE LAST NAME REMAS ANONYMO, SPENDS HIS TIME AT HOME, NTEMPLATG AND CLEANG, DISTANCG HIMSELF OM A WORLD THAT HE FDS HUMORO YET TRAGIC. 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 BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?

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.

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

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.

PHOTOGRAPHS REVEAL EVERYDAY LIFE OF GAY UPL THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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.