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Contents:

• THE ULTIMATE GAY GERMANY ERARY: 2 WEEKS CLUDG GAY ATRIA
• GAY GERMANY TRAVEL GUI
• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
• 14 GAY-IENDLY CI THAT LGBT TRAVELLERS LOVE
• THE 10 BEST GERMANY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS GERMANY
• AND THE GAYT CY EUROPE IS... (DISVER OUR TOP 10 WNERS)
• SUMMER THE CY: A GAY MUNICH WEEKEND TRIP
• GAY MUNICH TRAVEL GUI – GERMANY

THE ULTIMATE GAY GERMANY ERARY: 2 WEEKS CLUDG GAY ATRIA

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. Photo: Marc ZimmerGay GermanyThe pnacle for many Euro-trippg gay travellers, Germany is renowned for fiercely progrsive attus and laws that allow everyone to live any way they choose.

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In Germany, you n fd some of the bt gay venu anywhere the world, wh lendars packed full of annual events such as Gay Pri sprgtime and other niche LGBTQ ftivals throughout the Berl and Cologne, the gay scene is particularly stand out, profferg broad muni of rabow-flag-flyg lols where ternatnals are warmly weled. Nicknamed ‘Mahattan’ for this very reason, Frankfurt offers a vibrant nightlife and an tablished gay scene centred on the cy’s ‘Bermuda Triangle’ on Alte Gasse the downtown area.

QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL

As well as allowg for Julie Andrews themed photos, gay Salzburg is surprisgly smopolan wh a lively party scene ma all the better thanks to the high number of ternatnal tourists.

14 GAY-IENDLY CI THAT LGBT TRAVELLERS LOVE

There’s no better place to see this actn than wh the Glockenbachviertel neighbourhood where hipster bars and the cy’s gay scene li on quat 18th-century plazas and wh grand four-storey terrac.

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

Well-tablished sce the 1960s, Munich gay life is active all year round but peaks durg Pri Ftival and once aga durg Gay Oktoberft, the rnchier versn of the famed ternatnal beer ftival. Wh the centre of gay Drn, don’t miss the Theaterplatz, a buzzg market square showsg Italian high Renaissance sign si-by-si wh the rather more classil styl of Semper Opera Hoe.

When night falls, whether you’re lookg for the eedom of a dark room or a kky fetish lounge, Berl n surely satisfy, though you might want to set your safe word ’s openns is no secret and well as disverg s weird and wonrful gay subcultur, you’ll also fd more faiar gay nightlife the neighbourhood of Schöneberg or at any step along the cy’s Queer Walkg Tour, which also pass a number of cultural spots, such as world’s first queer mm and var queer bookshops.

AND THE GAYT CY EUROPE IS... (DISVER OUR TOP 10 WNERS)

Mt-vis LGBTIQ+ neighborhood: Gay Street, the queer neighborhood of Rome wh view of the Colossm, is a highly social 300-meter long pestrian street wh shoppg, bars and lodgg popular wh queer folx but primarily gay men who enjoy the opportuny to meet person rather than on hook-up aps. Mt-vis LGBTIQ+ neighborhood: Soho is the largt and bt known LGBTIQ+ neighborhood London wh a huge ncentratn of bars and clubs though you’ll fd queer venu spanng the entire cy om the clubs Vxhall to east London’s gay bars.

SUMMER THE CY: A GAY MUNICH WEEKEND TRIP

Mt-vis LGBTIQ+ neighborhood: Amsterdam is one of the most LGBTIQ+ iendly statns on the pla so everywhere is pretty much queer iendly but you’ll fd the gay area along Reguliersdwarsstraat. Mt-vis LGBTIQ+ neighborhood: There is no gayborhood but there are LGBTIQ+ venu sttered across the small island of 400,000 and the ty but elegant pal cy Valletta, which is only 0.61 square kilometers (0.24 sq mi) – Europe’s smallt pal – wh a populatn of 5730. And now all ey on our road trip around Germany’s highlights wh rmatn about LGBTQ+ hot spots, cultural highlights, and our favore thgs to do while travelg as a gay uple om Wtern Europe.

Addnally, we will spend some days some of the most LGBTQ+ and gay-iendly German ci cludg Berl, Drn, Munich, Heilberg, and all the cute ltle villag, stl, and towns on our way.

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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.

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. 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”.