Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay.
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- THE 10 TYP OF PEOPLE YOU'LL BUMP INTO BERGHA ILLTRATN OM THE BOOK 'HEDO BERL' BY FELIX SCHEBERGER | © FELIX SCHEBERGER ALICE DUNDON 12 JULY 2018 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT BERGHA IS THE MYSTER, HEDONISTIC HAVEN THAT HAS BEE THE POSTER-CHILD OF BERL’S WILD, WORLD-RENOWNED CLUBBG SCENE. LOTED ON A BARREN BLOCK, A FORMER POWER STATN, THE CULTURE OF THE CLUB AND THE PEOPLE WHO REGULARLY EQUENT HAVE BEE THE ZEGEIST OF THE CY. VIEW ALL TRIPS THE MYSTERY THAT SURROUNDS BERGHA IS AMPLIFIED BY THE CLUB’S STRICT NO-PHOTOGRAPHY POLICY. FELIX SCHEBERGER AN THOR, ILLTRATOR AND PROFSOR AT THE MüNSTER SCHOOL OF DIGN, FOUND A CREATIVE WAY TO CIRCUMVENT THIS NOTOR AND STRONGLY ENFORCED LE. IN HIS BOOK, HEDO BERL, SCHEBERGER EXPLOR THE WILD NIGHTS AT FAMED HEDONISTIC CLUBS BERGHA AND KKAT, PTURG THE WEIRD, WONRFUL CLUB KIDS SI. HERE ARE 10 TYP OF PEOPLE YOU’LL FD AT BERGHA, BT ILLTRATED WH SKETCH OM SCHEBERGER’S HEDO BERL. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP CROATIA MEXI EGYPT TURKEY MOROC JAPAN SPA BALI ECUADOR INDIA THAILAND GREECE SOUTH AI ICELAND A SKETCH OF BERGHA OM ‘HEDO BERL’ | © FELIX SCHEBERGER THE CLUB KID OFTEN HANGG AROUND GROUPS, CIGARETTE HANGG OM LIPS, THE ARE THE BLACK-CLAD, STONY-FACED REGULARS WHO TREAT BERGHA SUNDAYS LIKE CHURCH. THE CLUB KIDS ARE THE EPOME OF OL. FELIX SCHEBERGER SKETCH THE SWGERS AND CLUB KIDS SI BERGHA | © FELIX SCHEBERGER THE UNSURE TOURIST THEY’VE LED UP AD SILENCE, WORN BLACK AND EVEN MASTERED ONE GERMAN PHRASE ORR TO GET SI. NOW THE UNSURE TOURIST IS FALLY SI ONE OF THE HARST CLUBS THE WORLD TO GET TO. THEY’RE ELATED, READY TO DANCE AND SLOWLY G TO TERMS WH ALL THE NUDY. EDINBURGH AND THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS BY TRAIN TRAVERSE STLAND’S MOST SCENIC LANDSP, OM WT AST TO EAST, TRAVELLG BY RAIL VIEW TRIP THE LONG, SILENT LE AT BERGHA | © FELIX SCHEBERGER THE ADONIS BERGHA EMERGED OM THE MALE-ONLY FETISH CLUB OSTGUT AND REMAS A SAFE SPACE FOR EXPRSN FOR THE WIR LGBTQIA MUNY. AS SUCH, ’S MON TO FD BETIFULLY SCULPTED, SHIRTLS, ADONIS-LIKE GAY MEN DANCG TIGHT, LEATHER SHORTS AND ENJOYG THEIR BELOVED STOMPG GROUP. TALL, LEATHER-CLAD MAN AND OL GIRL OM WH BERGHA | © FELIX SCHEBERGER THE PANORAMA BAR NATIVE BERGHA HAS TWO TECHNO-FUELLED DANCE FLOORS. ONE IS A THUMPG, DARK FY OF BODI STOMPG TO TECHNO, AND THE OTHER IS THE UPSTAIRS, SLIGHTLY MORE AIRY AND BRIGHT PANORAMA BAR. BOTH DANCE FLOORS PROMISE CROWDS OF SWEATY BODI MOVG TO MELODIC TECHNO BUT, FOR SOME, THE LS-TENSE VIBE OF PANORAMA JT N’T BE BEATEN, AND THEY SPEND MOST OF THEIR BERGHA WEEKENDS HERE AT THE BAR. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. INSI PANORAMA BAR BERGHA | © FELIX SCHEBERGER THE GLORLY NAKED AND EE BERGHA IS A PALACE OF SELF-EXPRSN, WHERE KKS AND FETISH BLEND WH WORLD-CLASS TECHNO. UNSURPRISGLY THEN, NUDY IS A MON AND ACCEPTED PART OF HANGG OUT THE CLUB, AS MEN AND WOMEN, NOTHG BUT A BUM-BAG AND SOME TRAERS, CHAT OVER BEERS AND DANCE THE NIGHT (OR DAY) AWAY, WHOUT ANYONE BATTG AN EYELID. VALENTA IS DRAWN LONG GLOV AND A BARE CHT ‘HEDO BERL’ | © FELIX SCHEBERGER THE SOLO PARTIER HEADG OUT ON YOUR OWN THE GERMAN PAL IS PLETELY NORMAL, AND ’S NOT STRANGE TO BEIEND SOLO PARTIERS CLUBS ACROSS BERL. THERE TO HAVE A GOOD TIME, MAYBE MAKE SOME IENDS AND ENJOY THE FETISH-EEDOM OR ENGULFG MIC, THE LONE DANCERS ARE MON AT BERGHA. MAN SMOKG BERGHA | © FELIX SCHEBERGER THE KKY REGULAR SPORTG LEATHER HARNS, MASKS AND FETISH-WEAR, BERGHA’S ROOTS AS A FETISH CLUB ARE STILL PROMENT TODAY. SO, ’S MON TO FD KKY REGULARS THROUGHOUT THE CLUB EXPLORG AND EXPRSG THEMSELV THIS SAFE, NON-JUDGEMENTAL ENVIRONMENT. MAN A KKY MASK | © FELIX SCHEBERGER THE BATHROOM HOG THE BATHROOM HOGS AT BERGHA UALLY N PAIRS, TAKG UP THE FEW STALLS AND G UNRSTANDABLE TRATN FOR THOSE CLUB-GOERS WHO JT NEED TO E THE TOILET. WHATEVER THEY’RE DOG THERE, CERTALY ISN’T PC, AND ALSO MAK THE BATHROOM QUE ANNOYGLY LONG. RUMOUR HAS , THOUGH, THAT IF YOU MENTN YOU NEED THE TOILET (AND NOT JT THE PRIVACY OF THE BATHROOM STALL) THEY’LL LET YOU GO FIRST. THE BATHROOMS AT BERGHA ARE UNISEX AND WNS A LOT OF NGHTY BEHAVUR | © FELIX SCHEBERGER THE TIRED PARTIER THIS ONE IS PRETTY SELF-EXPLANATORY. THK OF THAT PARTYGOER WHO’S PROBABLY BEEN SI BERGHA FOR TWO DAYS STRAIGHT ALREADY, HAS PHED THROUGH TO THE BT OF THEIR ABILI, AND IS NOW SLOWLY DRIFTG OFF TO SLEEP ON ONE OF THE BEDS AT THE SMOOTHIE BAR UPSTAIRS. WATCH YOUR DRK AND TAKE A RT AT BERGHA | © FELIX SCHEBERGER THE TECHNO NNOISSR BERGHA’S WILD PERSONA ASI, THIS REGULAR IS TLY THERE FOR THE MIC. THEY ENJOY THE SEEMGLY MONOTONO BEATS WH A CH-STROKG (OR FOOT-STOMPG) ENTHIASM THAT N ONLY BE MASTERED BY SOMEONE WHO TLY ‘GETS .’ PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD N MEET AND MIX AT BERGHA | © FELIX SCHEBERGER 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?
- THE ONE REASON WHY BERGHA IS SO HARD TO GET INTO ALICE DUNDON 06 SEPTEMBER 2022 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT STONE-FACED AND BLACK-CLAD, THE AD OF WTER OR SHE OF SUMMER, THE BERGHA CLUB KIDS WA PATIENTLY TO GRACE THE WALLS OF THEIR TECHNO HAVEN. THE HYPE AROUND THIS SECRETIVE CLUB IS ONLY MAGNIFIED BY S NO-PHOTOS LE AND NOTORLY DIFFICULT DOOR POLICY. THE QUTN SEEMS TO BE ON EVERYONE’S LIPS: ‘HOW DO I GET TO BERGHA?’ SO MUCH SO, THAT A ‘HOW TO GET TO BERGHA‘ APP, WH LIVE QUE UPDAT, LNCHED AT THE EUROPEAN HACKATHON, AS WELL AS A FACE-SNNG WEBSE THAT ASSS YOUR CHANC OF GETTG . WHILE THERE ARE CERTA THGS THAT WILL HELP YOU GET TO THE CLUB, THE ONE REASON WHY BERGHA IS SO HARD TO GET TO IS THE CULTURE SURROUNDG . HEY THERE, DAYDREAMER! NEED A WELL-SERVED BREAK OM WORK ALTOGETHER? CHECK OUT OUR LLECTN OF ADVENTURO, SMALL GROUP GETAWAYS – ALL-TIME FAVOURE AND FURTHER-FLUNG STATNS. PACKED WH THENTIC LOL EXPERIENC, UNFETTABLE ACTIVI AND ONE-OFF ACMODATNS, THEY’RE A WORLD AWAY OM THE EVERYDAY. LOTED A FORMER EAST GERMAN POWER STATN, BERGHA IS FAMO FOR S WORLD-CLASS TECHNO, HEDONISTIC SPIR, AND NOW, S HIGH-END CLUB CULTURE. IT’S A BERL STUTN, AND THE CULTURE SURROUNDG HAS EVEN WARRANTED THE CLUB PAYG A SMALLER TAX UALLY RERVED FOR NCERT HALLS, WH A GERMAN URT LG 2016 THAT THE VENUE IS CULTURALLY SIGNIFINT. VIEW ALL TRIPS THIS HAS CEMENTED THE CLUB’S PLACE BERL SOCIETY, BUT WHILE MANY THK OF BERGHA AS THE ORIGAL, IS ACTUALLY THE RERNATN OF THE LATE ’90S TO EARLY ’00S WILD CHILD CLUB, OSTGUT. STARTG OUT AS A GAY, FETISH AND TECHNO CLUB, OSTGUT SHAPED THE POST-WALL CLUBBG CULTURE BERL. CONSIRG THIS LEGACY, BERGHA HAD A LOT TO LIVE UP TO, AND NOW ’S CLEAR TO SEE CERTALY DID JT THIS, HAVG SHAPED AND CREATED SUBCULTUR OF S OWN. THIS HISTORY AND STAT WH BERL IS THE DRIVG FORCE BEHD THE CLUB’S DIFFICULT DOOR POLICY AND THE MA REASON WHY BERGHA IS SO HARD TO GET TO. INFAMO BERGHA BOUNCER, SVEN MARQUARDT, WILL ATTT TO THIS, SAYG HE AND HIS MEN FEEL RPONSIBLE FOR THE CLUB. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP INDIA ICELAND TURKEY SOUTH AI CROATIA BALI EGYPT GREECE ECUADOR THAILAND MOROC SPA JAPAN MEXI TALKG TO GQ, MARQUARDT REVEALED THE STORY BEHD BERGHA AND S DOOR POLICY, SAYG ‘IT’S SUBJECTIVE. ONLY A FEW OF MY GUYS ARE ALLOWED TO SELECT GUTS AT THE DOOR. THEY HAVE TO UNRSTAND WHAT BERGHA IS ALL ABOUT FIRST, AND I TRY TO GIVE THEM THAT FOUNDATN. BEYOND THAT, THERE ARE NO SET L.’ THIS IS WHY THE L SURROUNDG HOW TO GET TO BERGHA N SEEM SO NTRADICTORY – ALL DOWN TO A FEELG. WHEN LNCHG HIS MEMOIRS ABOUT WORKG FOR THE TECHNO TEMPLE, SVEN SAID ‘WE ALSO TAKE GUYS MASKS AND KILTS OR PAMELA ANRSON BLONS N-OF-THE-L HIGH-STREET OUTFS WHO TAG ALONG WH BEARD BLOK, LICKG THE SWEAT OFF EACH OTHERS’ ARMPS. THAT, FOR ME, IS BERGHA.’ UNRSTANDG BERGHA’S CULTURE MAK S DOOR POLICY FAR EASIER TO WORK OUT – ORR TO MATA S HEDONISTIC, OPEN-MD AND MIC DRIVEN ETHOS, THEY HAVE TO ENSURE THE CLIENTELE FS THIS. WHEN YOU’RE AT THE ONT OF THE LE, THE BOUNCERS ARE TRYG TO WORK OUT IF YOU’RE THERE TO PARTICIPATE OR TO AWKWARDLY GAWK AT S BIZARRE, FETISH AND SEXUAL DISPLAYS. IF YOU’RE NOT SURE YOU SHOULD BE THERE, ’LL BE WRTEN ALL OVER YOUR FACE, AND THE BOUNCERS WILL SEE THIS AND ASK YOU TO MOVE ALONG. EPIC MOROCCO FROM ANCIENT CI TO THE SAHARA, EMBRACE CULTURAL RICH AND ENCHANTG LANDSP NORTH AI. VIEW TRIP 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?
- DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
- GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
THE 10 TYP OF PEOPLE YOU'LL BUMP INTO BERGHA ILLTRATN OM THE BOOK 'HEDO BERL' BY FELIX SCHEBERGER | © FELIX SCHEBERGER ALICE DUNDON 12 JULY 2018 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT BERGHA IS THE MYSTER, HEDONISTIC HAVEN THAT HAS BEE THE POSTER-CHILD OF BERL’S WILD, WORLD-RENOWNED CLUBBG SCENE. LOTED ON A BARREN BLOCK, A FORMER POWER STATN, THE CULTURE OF THE CLUB AND THE PEOPLE WHO REGULARLY EQUENT HAVE BEE THE ZEGEIST OF THE CY. VIEW ALL TRIPS THE MYSTERY THAT SURROUNDS BERGHA IS AMPLIFIED BY THE CLUB’S STRICT NO-PHOTOGRAPHY POLICY. FELIX SCHEBERGER AN THOR, ILLTRATOR AND PROFSOR AT THE MüNSTER SCHOOL OF DIGN, FOUND A CREATIVE WAY TO CIRCUMVENT THIS NOTOR AND STRONGLY ENFORCED LE. IN HIS BOOK, HEDO BERL, SCHEBERGER EXPLOR THE WILD NIGHTS AT FAMED HEDONISTIC CLUBS BERGHA AND KKAT, PTURG THE WEIRD, WONRFUL CLUB KIDS SI. HERE ARE 10 TYP OF PEOPLE YOU’LL FD AT BERGHA, BT ILLTRATED WH SKETCH OM SCHEBERGER’S HEDO BERL. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP CROATIA MEXI EGYPT TURKEY MOROC JAPAN SPA BALI ECUADOR INDIA THAILAND GREECE SOUTH AI ICELAND A SKETCH OF BERGHA OM ‘HEDO BERL’ | © FELIX SCHEBERGER THE CLUB KID OFTEN HANGG AROUND GROUPS, CIGARETTE HANGG OM LIPS, THE ARE THE BLACK-CLAD, STONY-FACED REGULARS WHO TREAT BERGHA SUNDAYS LIKE CHURCH. THE CLUB KIDS ARE THE EPOME OF OL. FELIX SCHEBERGER SKETCH THE SWGERS AND CLUB KIDS SI BERGHA | © FELIX SCHEBERGER THE UNSURE TOURIST THEY’VE LED UP AD SILENCE, WORN BLACK AND EVEN MASTERED ONE GERMAN PHRASE ORR TO GET SI. NOW THE UNSURE TOURIST IS FALLY SI ONE OF THE HARST CLUBS THE WORLD TO GET TO. THEY’RE ELATED, READY TO DANCE AND SLOWLY G TO TERMS WH ALL THE NUDY. EDINBURGH AND THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS BY TRAIN TRAVERSE STLAND’S MOST SCENIC LANDSP, OM WT AST TO EAST, TRAVELLG BY RAIL VIEW TRIP THE LONG, SILENT LE AT BERGHA | © FELIX SCHEBERGER THE ADONIS BERGHA EMERGED OM THE MALE-ONLY FETISH CLUB OSTGUT AND REMAS A SAFE SPACE FOR EXPRSN FOR THE WIR LGBTQIA MUNY. AS SUCH, ’S MON TO FD BETIFULLY SCULPTED, SHIRTLS, ADONIS-LIKE GAY MEN DANCG TIGHT, LEATHER SHORTS AND ENJOYG THEIR BELOVED STOMPG GROUP. TALL, LEATHER-CLAD MAN AND OL GIRL OM WH BERGHA | © FELIX SCHEBERGER THE PANORAMA BAR NATIVE BERGHA HAS TWO TECHNO-FUELLED DANCE FLOORS. ONE IS A THUMPG, DARK FY OF BODI STOMPG TO TECHNO, AND THE OTHER IS THE UPSTAIRS, SLIGHTLY MORE AIRY AND BRIGHT PANORAMA BAR. BOTH DANCE FLOORS PROMISE CROWDS OF SWEATY BODI MOVG TO MELODIC TECHNO BUT, FOR SOME, THE LS-TENSE VIBE OF PANORAMA JT N’T BE BEATEN, AND THEY SPEND MOST OF THEIR BERGHA WEEKENDS HERE AT THE BAR. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. INSI PANORAMA BAR BERGHA | © FELIX SCHEBERGER THE GLORLY NAKED AND EE BERGHA IS A PALACE OF SELF-EXPRSN, WHERE KKS AND FETISH BLEND WH WORLD-CLASS TECHNO. UNSURPRISGLY THEN, NUDY IS A MON AND ACCEPTED PART OF HANGG OUT THE CLUB, AS MEN AND WOMEN, NOTHG BUT A BUM-BAG AND SOME TRAERS, CHAT OVER BEERS AND DANCE THE NIGHT (OR DAY) AWAY, WHOUT ANYONE BATTG AN EYELID. VALENTA IS DRAWN LONG GLOV AND A BARE CHT ‘HEDO BERL’ | © FELIX SCHEBERGER THE SOLO PARTIER HEADG OUT ON YOUR OWN THE GERMAN PAL IS PLETELY NORMAL, AND ’S NOT STRANGE TO BEIEND SOLO PARTIERS CLUBS ACROSS BERL. THERE TO HAVE A GOOD TIME, MAYBE MAKE SOME IENDS AND ENJOY THE FETISH-EEDOM OR ENGULFG MIC, THE LONE DANCERS ARE MON AT BERGHA. MAN SMOKG BERGHA | © FELIX SCHEBERGER THE KKY REGULAR SPORTG LEATHER HARNS, MASKS AND FETISH-WEAR, BERGHA’S ROOTS AS A FETISH CLUB ARE STILL PROMENT TODAY. SO, ’S MON TO FD KKY REGULARS THROUGHOUT THE CLUB EXPLORG AND EXPRSG THEMSELV THIS SAFE, NON-JUDGEMENTAL ENVIRONMENT. MAN A KKY MASK | © FELIX SCHEBERGER THE BATHROOM HOG THE BATHROOM HOGS AT BERGHA UALLY N PAIRS, TAKG UP THE FEW STALLS AND G UNRSTANDABLE TRATN FOR THOSE CLUB-GOERS WHO JT NEED TO E THE TOILET. WHATEVER THEY’RE DOG THERE, CERTALY ISN’T PC, AND ALSO MAK THE BATHROOM QUE ANNOYGLY LONG. RUMOUR HAS , THOUGH, THAT IF YOU MENTN YOU NEED THE TOILET (AND NOT JT THE PRIVACY OF THE BATHROOM STALL) THEY’LL LET YOU GO FIRST. THE BATHROOMS AT BERGHA ARE UNISEX AND WNS A LOT OF NGHTY BEHAVUR | © FELIX SCHEBERGER THE TIRED PARTIER THIS ONE IS PRETTY SELF-EXPLANATORY. THK OF THAT PARTYGOER WHO’S PROBABLY BEEN SI BERGHA FOR TWO DAYS STRAIGHT ALREADY, HAS PHED THROUGH TO THE BT OF THEIR ABILI, AND IS NOW SLOWLY DRIFTG OFF TO SLEEP ON ONE OF THE BEDS AT THE SMOOTHIE BAR UPSTAIRS. WATCH YOUR DRK AND TAKE A RT AT BERGHA | © FELIX SCHEBERGER THE TECHNO NNOISSR BERGHA’S WILD PERSONA ASI, THIS REGULAR IS TLY THERE FOR THE MIC. THEY ENJOY THE SEEMGLY MONOTONO BEATS WH A CH-STROKG (OR FOOT-STOMPG) ENTHIASM THAT N ONLY BE MASTERED BY SOMEONE WHO TLY ‘GETS .’ PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD N MEET AND MIX AT BERGHA | © FELIX SCHEBERGER 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?
SiegedSec, a group of gay furry hackers, took their skills to US ernments June, breachg agenci across five stat and to release data. * gay berghain twitter *
The club Bergha’s basement aims at gay men wh fetish, anizg naked sex parti, leather and bber nights, fistg events, and piss spectacl alike.
The owners of Bergha are Norbert Thormann and Michael Tfele, two reticent iends and promoters who started anizg wild gay fetish parti lled Snax 1992 Berl. The reason behd the notorly difficult door policy is the history of Bergha as a club that provid a safe space for gays and other outsirs, wh no prejudice.
THE ONE REASON WHY BERGHA IS SO HARD TO GET INTO ALICE DUNDON 06 SEPTEMBER 2022 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT STONE-FACED AND BLACK-CLAD, THE AD OF WTER OR SHE OF SUMMER, THE BERGHA CLUB KIDS WA PATIENTLY TO GRACE THE WALLS OF THEIR TECHNO HAVEN. THE HYPE AROUND THIS SECRETIVE CLUB IS ONLY MAGNIFIED BY S NO-PHOTOS LE AND NOTORLY DIFFICULT DOOR POLICY. THE QUTN SEEMS TO BE ON EVERYONE’S LIPS: ‘HOW DO I GET TO BERGHA?’ SO MUCH SO, THAT A ‘HOW TO GET TO BERGHA‘ APP, WH LIVE QUE UPDAT, LNCHED AT THE EUROPEAN HACKATHON, AS WELL AS A FACE-SNNG WEBSE THAT ASSS YOUR CHANC OF GETTG . WHILE THERE ARE CERTA THGS THAT WILL HELP YOU GET TO THE CLUB, THE ONE REASON WHY BERGHA IS SO HARD TO GET TO IS THE CULTURE SURROUNDG . HEY THERE, DAYDREAMER! NEED A WELL-SERVED BREAK OM WORK ALTOGETHER? CHECK OUT OUR LLECTN OF ADVENTURO, SMALL GROUP GETAWAYS – ALL-TIME FAVOURE AND FURTHER-FLUNG STATNS. PACKED WH THENTIC LOL EXPERIENC, UNFETTABLE ACTIVI AND ONE-OFF ACMODATNS, THEY’RE A WORLD AWAY OM THE EVERYDAY. LOTED A FORMER EAST GERMAN POWER STATN, BERGHA IS FAMO FOR S WORLD-CLASS TECHNO, HEDONISTIC SPIR, AND NOW, S HIGH-END CLUB CULTURE. IT’S A BERL STUTN, AND THE CULTURE SURROUNDG HAS EVEN WARRANTED THE CLUB PAYG A SMALLER TAX UALLY RERVED FOR NCERT HALLS, WH A GERMAN URT LG 2016 THAT THE VENUE IS CULTURALLY SIGNIFINT. VIEW ALL TRIPS THIS HAS CEMENTED THE CLUB’S PLACE BERL SOCIETY, BUT WHILE MANY THK OF BERGHA AS THE ORIGAL, IS ACTUALLY THE RERNATN OF THE LATE ’90S TO EARLY ’00S WILD CHILD CLUB, OSTGUT. STARTG OUT AS A GAY, FETISH AND TECHNO CLUB, OSTGUT SHAPED THE POST-WALL CLUBBG CULTURE BERL. CONSIRG THIS LEGACY, BERGHA HAD A LOT TO LIVE UP TO, AND NOW ’S CLEAR TO SEE CERTALY DID JT THIS, HAVG SHAPED AND CREATED SUBCULTUR OF S OWN. THIS HISTORY AND STAT WH BERL IS THE DRIVG FORCE BEHD THE CLUB’S DIFFICULT DOOR POLICY AND THE MA REASON WHY BERGHA IS SO HARD TO GET TO. INFAMO BERGHA BOUNCER, SVEN MARQUARDT, WILL ATTT TO THIS, SAYG HE AND HIS MEN FEEL RPONSIBLE FOR THE CLUB. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP INDIA ICELAND TURKEY SOUTH AI CROATIA BALI EGYPT GREECE ECUADOR THAILAND MOROC SPA JAPAN MEXI TALKG TO GQ, MARQUARDT REVEALED THE STORY BEHD BERGHA AND S DOOR POLICY, SAYG ‘IT’S SUBJECTIVE. ONLY A FEW OF MY GUYS ARE ALLOWED TO SELECT GUTS AT THE DOOR. THEY HAVE TO UNRSTAND WHAT BERGHA IS ALL ABOUT FIRST, AND I TRY TO GIVE THEM THAT FOUNDATN. BEYOND THAT, THERE ARE NO SET L.’ THIS IS WHY THE L SURROUNDG HOW TO GET TO BERGHA N SEEM SO NTRADICTORY – ALL DOWN TO A FEELG. WHEN LNCHG HIS MEMOIRS ABOUT WORKG FOR THE TECHNO TEMPLE, SVEN SAID ‘WE ALSO TAKE GUYS MASKS AND KILTS OR PAMELA ANRSON BLONS N-OF-THE-L HIGH-STREET OUTFS WHO TAG ALONG WH BEARD BLOK, LICKG THE SWEAT OFF EACH OTHERS’ ARMPS. THAT, FOR ME, IS BERGHA.’ UNRSTANDG BERGHA’S CULTURE MAK S DOOR POLICY FAR EASIER TO WORK OUT – ORR TO MATA S HEDONISTIC, OPEN-MD AND MIC DRIVEN ETHOS, THEY HAVE TO ENSURE THE CLIENTELE FS THIS. WHEN YOU’RE AT THE ONT OF THE LE, THE BOUNCERS ARE TRYG TO WORK OUT IF YOU’RE THERE TO PARTICIPATE OR TO AWKWARDLY GAWK AT S BIZARRE, FETISH AND SEXUAL DISPLAYS. IF YOU’RE NOT SURE YOU SHOULD BE THERE, ’LL BE WRTEN ALL OVER YOUR FACE, AND THE BOUNCERS WILL SEE THIS AND ASK YOU TO MOVE ALONG. EPIC MOROCCO FROM ANCIENT CI TO THE SAHARA, EMBRACE CULTURAL RICH AND ENCHANTG LANDSP NORTH AI. VIEW TRIP 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?
If you want to read the chronicle of Sven’s growg up as a gay punk East Germany unr the watchful eye of Stasi spi, over the neti unified Berl spent takg dgs and clubbg, all the way to participatg the birth of Bergha legend, you n orr the book here. Click on the lks if you want to learn more about gay life Cambodia, or the fight of ladyboys Thailand.
DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
Is Bergha a gay club? Well, Bergha is not a gay club today.
GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
If anythg, actg gay when you are not would raise a red flag the Bergha que, as go agast the ia of beg te to onelf. Oratory, the separate sex club, is the only dited gay space of the Bergha buildg, even if some of s evengs (such as Revoltg) are also open to mixed crowds.
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He is not gay, he says, but still ends ups lickg my entire torso, wipg the sweat off of my armps, so “he uld take home wh him”. After he got rejected, Danny M om New York figured out that hot gay men were unwele at Bergha: “If you want to go here and are a gay man on his own, you will not be allowed , no matter how attractive you are (as the doormen are straight and don’t re how cute guys are). Bergha was the offsprg of Ostgut, a club which opened 1998 and was home to Snax, a gay sex fetish night after the promoters cid to settle one lotn.
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Durg Ostgut’s short lifpan, gay crowds and parti were stmental re-tablishg techno and s foothold the cy.
Popular stori that circulate clu openly gay and straight sexual activy, which occur dim alv, at the bar and on the dance floor, Tobias, “Saturday at Bergha”,, published 21 October 2009, (accsed 09 March 2013).