Belgium Gay Pri Calendar 2023

Contents:

• LGBTQ+ BERL – THE CY’S BT GAY BARS, CLUBS AND SNAS
• BERL'S GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS
• BERL GAY NIGHTCLUBS | AN LGBTQIA+ GUI TO BERL NIGHTLIFE
• THE 10 BEST BERL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BERL
• GAY BERL: LGBTIQ+ GUI FOR BERL
• BERL CY GUI: WORLD-CLASS GAY CULTURE
• GAY BERLIN
• GAY PRI BERL (CSD BERL)
• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
• GAY GERMANY TRAVEL GUI
• AND THE GAYT CY EUROPE IS... (DISVER OUR TOP 10 WNERS)
• DER BOILER | BERL’S GAY MEN’S SNA EXTENSIVE REVIEW
• GAY PRI EVENTS BELGIUM
• IBIZA GAY TRAVEL GUI & MAP 2023

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. 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.

BERL'S GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS

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 Berl.Berl 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”. 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. 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.

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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.

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14 plac sorted by traveler favorGay Bars • SpasFriedrichsha-Krzberg (Borough)Gay BarsFriedrichsha-Krzberg (Borough)Gay BarsFriedrichsha-Krzberg (Borough)What travelers are saygI thk Der Boiler is one of the bt snas Europe.

The most famo LGBTQ monument Berl is the inic Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Unr Nazism (open sce 2008), a large reflective stone that plays a repeatg vio clip of men kissg men and women kissg women. Other LGBTQ memorials Berl clu an AIDS memorial the Schöneberg neighborhood and a memorial plaque at the Nollendorf U-Bahn statn memoratg the persecutn of homosexuals Nazi Germany.

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Its sexs dat back even further to the bched 1920s, but began to take on s prent-day form durg the Cold War when a ary service loophole and the huge Wt German arts scene subsidi attracted hippi, punks, gays and lbians, artists and micians.

The former is smart and is popular as a gay area, while Krzberg is generally gngy and Krzberg’s eastern g, and back what ed to be East Berl is Friedrichsha which offers some unual archectural leftovers om the Eastern Bloc of the 1950s, while to the north Prenzler Berg is one of the few plac which the atmosphere of prewar Berl has been prerved – plete wh bbled streets and ornate ’s eastern suburbs are typified by a sprawl of prewar tenements punctuated by high-rise velopments and heavy dtry, though the lak, woodland and small towns and villag dotted around Köpenick offer a genue break om the leafy wtern suburbs are even more renowned for their woodland (the Gnewald) and lak (the Havel), wh more bis: attractns clu the baroque Schloss Charlottenburg, wh s adjacent art mms; the imprsive 1930s Olympic Stadium; the Dahlem mm plex, which displays everythg om German folk art to Polynian huts; and the medieval town of Spand.

The unrground rmatn centre the southeast rner of the monument, refully relat the harrowg life stori of selected Jewish victims of the Holot; s d tour is largely the road om the Holot Memorial, the g of the Tiergarten park hold another ncrete oblong: a Gay Holot Memorial, which remembers the 54, 000 people nvicted of homosexual acts unr the Nazis, of whom an timated eight thoand died ncentratn mps. Ingurated by Berl’s gay mayor Kls Wowere 2008, the four-metre-high monument mimics those memoratg Jewish victims, but leans differently and ntas a wdow behd which a looped film of two men kissg plays. By the 1920s and early 1930s had bee the centre for Berl’s sizeable gay muny: there were around forty gay bars on and near to the road and rail tersectn Nollendorfplatz alone, and gay life the cy was open, fashnable and well anized, wh s own newspapers and muny associatns.

BERL CY GUI: WORLD-CLASS GAY CULTURE

Lol theatr were filled wh plays explorg gay them; homosexualy the Pssian army was ltle short of stutnalized; and gay bars, nightclubs and brothels proudly advertised themselv – there were even gay workg men’s clubs. Though the neigbourhood was blown to piec durg the war, Schöneberg’s gay village has proved more robt, and s attendant nightlife still first Spander VorstadtThe crcent-shaped area north of the River Spree between Friedrichstrasse and Alexanrplatz and known as the Spander Vorstadt emerged after the Wen as one of the most trigug parts of unified Berl. And don’t worry too much about drs as the prevalence of a shabby-chic athetic mean you n get to most plac wh ltle and lbian BerlBerl’s gay and lbian scene is world class, makg a mag for gay men and women om all over Germany and Europe.

The monthly gay magaze Siegsäule () has listgs of events and is ee om most gay bars and venu, while monthly publitn Blattgold () lists lbian groups and events and is available om femist meetg plac and bookshops. The German pal has a progrsive populatn, an unrground vibe and a massive LGBTQ+ scene which has been thrivg for years, cludg Berl gay bars, gay clubs, gay mms, gay snas, gay-iendly hotels and hostels as well as untls gay events and ftivals. Jt keep scrollg ? ? ? #1 Mm Stroll Wh s rotatg exhibns, tertg archiv and rich library regardg gay, lbian and trans history, the Schwul Mm is one of the world’s biggt stutns for rearchg and prervg the history and culture of queer muni.

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#4 Bt gay Bars Berl Zum Schmutzigen Hobby, found a buildg once a fire statn, is n by the lol legend, Na Queer, and offers an easygog, iendly ambience for all LGBTQ+ members as well as lol bohos, hipsters and ocsnal celebry guts, such as Tara Reid and Rupert Everett. 34, 10243 Berl, Germany #6 Bt gay Clubs Berl SchwuZ Club, found 1977, is famo for s signature mix of die, morn pop, retro-ksch, techno and electro mic, art stallatns, LGBTQ+ talks, live mic, gay parti and drag shows wh ternatnal queens.

GAY PRI BERL (CSD BERL)

Addrs: Am Wriezener bhf, 10243 Berl, Germany #7 Berl’s Gay Pri The LGBTIQ+ highlight of Europe’s queert cy is the annual so-lled Christopher Street Day or CSD, wh the first one havg taken place Berl back 1979.

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? FriedrichshaFriedrichsha – the raw and unrground district of Berl – is the neighborhood where you’ll fely fd some of the bt clubs the entire hotels Berl There are six MEININGER gay-iendly hotels Berl joyfully openg their doors to wele you durg your trip! However, Der Eigene was not wrten as a means of polil activism, and only a year later when Magn Hirschfeld, a German physician, creat the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee (as a subset of Berl’s Instute for the Science of Sexualy) did the muny start to actively lobby for the rights of gay, lbian and transgenr people.

Pockets of lbian and gay spiratn n be found several quarters such as the gentrified Prenzler Berg, tourist hotspot Mte, and the alternative and partly dised Friedrichsha (all ex-East Berl).

On a more ser note, if gay history is of tert, make sure you’ll get a chance to vis The Memorial to the Homosexuals Persecuted Unr Nazism, on the Ebertstraße, and the Schwul Mm on Lützowstraße, jt outsi the Schöneberg. Fd out how queer figur om the Pssian Kg Frerick the Great to openly gay mayor Kls Wowere have shaped the history of Berl, a cy which still believ a “kiss-” to be the bt form of prott, and fish the tour near to the Gay Mm. Last time at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the Netherlands lay claim to the honor of beg the team wh the most out LGBTQ players, but this year Atralia boasts 10 out players and overtak them for the tle of Gayt Team 2k23.

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Ireland’s historic entry to the tournament marks another triumph for out midfielr Sead Farrelly, whose natnal team but and 2023 return to the NWSL e more than six years after retirg om soccer the wake of systemic homophobic and sexual abe wh the league, which the Athletic first reported on 2021. Three years earlier, while he was studyg journalism at Michigan State Universy, he had publicly e out as gay an say he wrote for the time of the say, he braced for a backlash, but nothg materialized.

It was paful at the time — the worst thg that had happened to him as a gay man, he said — but has reced far enough to his memory that did not e to md an hourlong terview about his experienc as a gay broadster.

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’”By the start of his sophomore year at Michigan State, Bach was ready to tell his parents that he was gay, tchg his father off guard but nfirmg what his mother had prevly assumed. “I feel like that’s the burn a lot of gay people live wh — tryg to be perfect for straight people, ” he job requir equent teractn wh the players and the achg staff — addn to his duti as play-by-play announcer, Bach also is the ma public relatns ntact for the team — and he said he hadn’t fully relaxed any of them.

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Mrer/Frericksburg NatnalsThat feelg is somewhat “self-flicted, ” Bach said, but he believ the solutn is to brg more openly gay people to sports and create a safe environment for those who are already there but have felt necsary to hi their League Baseball has touted self as a place of clivy. Billy Bean, an openly gay former player, was named the league’s first ambassador for cln 2014 and has sce been promoted to senr vice print and special assistant to Commissner Rob Maned.

In Febary, Anrson Comás, a mor leaguer the Chigo Whe Sox anizatn, me out as gay wh a post on Instagram, and the announcement was met wh public support om his club and some people around the cints suggt there is more work to be done. The Boston Red Sox lled up a mor leaguer, Matt Dermody, who had posted an anti-gay msage on Twter 2021, and Anthony Bass, a reliever for the Toronto Blue Jays, reposted a vio on social media that lled for boytts of L. “Those of that are this very small mory sports have to keep on havg the nversatns, keep on workg really ick’ hard to earn your spot this space, ” he aspir to be a gay person at home a big-league booth.

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On an afternoon Schöneberg, you’ll jo proud gay upl walkg the same historic streets where LGBTQ artists and activists once began the fight for gay rights, as early as the 1890s fact. You’ll fd a number of monuments around the cy memoratg the many LGBTQ victims of WWII, wh the Schwul Mm documentg the art, culture and history of Berl’s homosexual muny, which was long centred , Nollendorfplatz is still the place to be if you’d like to see the cy’s bt fetish clubs and leather bars, wh September brgg wh the Folsom Europe BDSM and subculture ftival. As well as s progrsive lols and large gay muny, the cy self is a playground for gay travellers, most notably the Chue neighbourhood where there’s always some kd of event happeng.

The third natn to legalize gay marriage back 2005, Spa’s pal has sce bee a mol for other untri, wh s equaly acts allowg for same-sex adoptn, marriage and legal safeguards agast discrimatn. Drawn through wh waterways and nnected by hundreds of photogenic bridg, Amsterdam is the cy of the cyclist, allowg for scenic ris along the Prsengracht nal and the Amstel River which both bee awash wh para boats durg the annual gay nal pri.

At all other tim, you n fd Amsterdam’s gay scene centred on Reguliersdwarsstraat, particularly at the cy’s olst gay bar, Cafe t’ Mandje, a popular late-night meetg pot wh kschy dér datg back to the 1920s. While explorg the cy, be sure to look for the Homomonument, a se promoted as a livg monument to homosexuals opprsed and persecuted around the world, also learng more of the cy’s LGBT history at the Pk Pot rmatn sk close by.

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This area surroundg Old Compton Street central London remas the go-to place for 21st century gays, nstantly transformatn wh queer-oriented theatr, fés, sex shops and bookstor on every street.

Copenhagen, DenmarkWh Denmark beg one of the first European natns to legalize same-sex marriage 2012 (and same-sex unns back 1989), ’s pal of Copenhagen certaly has the crentials to be crowned gay pal of Europe. Though smaller events like World Aids Day and the EuroGam are celebrated throughout the year, the pnacle event for the gay muny mt be Copenhagen Pri, which actually happens twice a year both June and well as your ual dance clubs, Copenhagen go one better wh a selectn of sophistited gay spots near Cy Hall, while the alternative scene meets nearer Central Statn or Vterbro, the cy’s old Red Light District.