2023 Berl's Gay, Lbian, and Queer Scene Small-Group Walkg Tour

Contents:

• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
• LGBTQ+ BERL – THE CY’S BT GAY BARS, CLUBS AND SNAS
• TELEGRAM GAY GROUPS
• BERL'S GAY, LBIAN, AND QUEER SCENE SMALL-GROUP WALKG TOUR
• TOP GAY CLUBS & BARS FRIEDRICHSHA-KRZBERG (BOROUGH) (BERL)GAY CLUBS & BARS FRIEDRICHSHA-KRZBERG (BOROUGH)
• LSVD – LBIAN AND GAY ASSOCIATN BERL-BRANNBURG
• BERL CY GUI: WORLD-CLASS GAY CULTURE
• GAYS GPPEN BERL
• REPORT: SWATCH GROUP SU COUNTRY THAT ALLEGEDLY SEIZED ITS GAY PRI WATCH
• GAY TELEGRAM GROUP LKS 18+

QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL

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. 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 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.

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. 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.

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. 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. 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.

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

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. 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.

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.

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. 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.

TELEGRAM GAY GROUPS

Rosa von Prnheim's film, It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society Which He Liv (1971) spir the gay scene to tablish new associatns.

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. 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.

BERL'S GAY, LBIAN, AND QUEER SCENE SMALL-GROUP WALKG TOUR

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”.

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.

TOP GAY CLUBS & BARS FRIEDRICHSHA-KRZBERG (BOROUGH) (BERL)GAY CLUBS & BARS FRIEDRICHSHA-KRZBERG (BOROUGH)

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.

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. The muny got a whole new lease of life wh the foundg of the Berler Lbenwoche (Berl Lbian Week) and the olst and largt gay and lbian cy magaze Siegsäule 1984.

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.

LSVD – LBIAN AND GAY ASSOCIATN BERL-BRANNBURG

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. It is well known for issug an…Jugendzwerk LambdaJugendzwerk Lambda (Youth Network Lambda) is a natnwi youth associatn for lbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, trans*, non-bary, ter* and queer youth Germany.

In…Lben- und Schwulenverband DtschlandBiggt LGBT-NGO GermanyManeo - Mann-O-MeterMANEO is the most experienced and bt-known gay anti-vlence-project Germany.

BERL CY GUI: WORLD-CLASS GAY CULTURE

Josie McLellan, Glad to be Gay Behd the Wall: Gay and Lbian Activism 1970s East Germany, History Workshop Journal, Volume 74, Issue 1, Autumn 2012, Pag 105–130,. The HIB (Homosexuelle Intersengemeschaft Berl, or Homosexual Intert Group Berl), a gay and lbian rights group, was active East Berl the 1970s. The HIB’s roots lay not only the 1968 crimalizatn of homosexualy the East, but also the after-effects of the Wtern ‘1968’, not least the burgeong gay liberatn movement.

GAYS GPPEN BERL

The HIB’s founrs not only had accs to Wtern gay media and films, but also met activists such as Peter Tatchell, who travelled to the GDR 1973.

REPORT: SWATCH GROUP SU COUNTRY THAT ALLEGEDLY SEIZED ITS GAY PRI WATCH

In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.

GAY TELEGRAM GROUP LKS 18+

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”.

Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said.

Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space.