Queer & gay Berl: Your gui for LGBTQ+ Berl |

Contents:

• SCHWUL MM (MéE GAY)
• SCHWUL MM (GAY MM)
• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
• PAR LA MUNTé, POUR LA MUNTé : LE MéE GAY BERL. UN ENTRETIEN AVEC HEER SCHULZE.
• SCHWULES MUSEUM - MUSÉE GAY
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• QUEER AS GERMAN FOLK: EXHIBN AT THE GAY MM BERL
• TICKETS & PRIC BERL GAY MM
• GAY BERL · CY GUI

SCHWUL MM (MéE GAY)

Le Mée gay (Schwul Mm) t l’une s pl grans et important stutns mon qui rme sur la diversé d’inté sexuelle et s sex avec s exposns bien timés, s archiv, s ntributns à la recherche et ptant pl 35 llaboratrs pour la plupart bénévol. Le mée se nsacre à la gran diversé s perspectiv gays, lbienn, bisexuell et transintifié sur l’histoire, la culture et l’art.

Le mée possè ssi une biblthèque sur l’homosexualé et thèm apparentés, s archiv prenant nombrs llectns et succsns.

Aujourd’hui, outre l récs personnels d’homm gays, il clut cx personn lbienn, transgenr, bisexuell et queers, présentés en toute thenticé. En 1984, ils ont présenté lr première exposn « Eldorado – Homosexuelle Fren und Männer Berl 1850-1950 » (Eldorado – Femm et homm homosexuels à Berl 1850 à 1950). Changement li: se s loux l’associatn AHA (groupe travail homosexuel à votn généraliste), un mée vo le jour avec une biblthèque et s archiv sur le sujet.

SCHWUL MM (GAY MM)

Sa vaste llectn présente s stum emblématiqu l’histoire du céma allemand, notamment s pièc porté par Marlene Dietrich, que vo rez déjà croisée Mée gay. Found 1985, the Gay Mm has been showg curated art as well as has displayed treasur om s own llectn temporary special exhibns ever sce.

In 1984, the first exhibn opens, entled "Eldorado - Homosexual Women and Men Berl 1850-1950" wh the exhibn space of the Berl Mm. The followg year, the "Associatn of Friends of a Gay Mm Berl" is formed wh a change of venue: a mm wh a library and archive is stalled a buildg belongg to AHA, a gay rights workg group. The three stunts and their activist ally Maned Herzer had proposed to velop an exhibn on homosexual men and women Berl.

QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL

In the summer of 1984, the legendary exhibn Eldorado – the History, Everyday Life and Culture of Homosexual Women and Men 1850-1950 took place the Berl Mm, curated by the three iators llaboratn wh a group of lbian activists. In the offic of the “Allgemee Homosexuelle Arbesgemeschaft AHA” (General Homosexual Workg Group) Friedrichstraße, the foundatn was laid for a mm, a library and an archive.

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. 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 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.

PAR LA MUNTé, POUR LA MUNTé : LE MéE GAY BERL. UN ENTRETIEN AVEC HEER SCHULZE.

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.

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. This cema maly shows gay and lbian films, and has been a bean for queer cema the rabow neighbourhood sce 1995. 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.

SCHWULES MUSEUM - MUSÉE GAY

One of the first gay venu Berl, notor for equent raids by the police, had already been open Jägerstrasse sce 1885.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

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. Another homosexual associatn is found wh an exclive Unn for Male Culture, which lled self the Communy of the Unique.

QUEER AS GERMAN FOLK: EXHIBN AT THE GAY MM BERL

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.

TICKETS & PRIC BERL GAY MM

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. The gay and lbian movement rapidly gas pace wh the Friendship Associatns and their lol branch all over Germany, which are found om 1919 on.

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. The Scientific-Humanarian Commtee had been filg petns sce 1897 llg on the Reichstag to abolish the special law agast homosexual men. In 1922, the gay and lbian' associatns briefly une to form an actn group to ensure their voic are heard durg an upg crimal jtice reform.

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.

GAY BERL · CY GUI

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. At the end of the 1920s, the Brish thor Christopher Isherwood arriv Berl to sample the pleasur of s liberal gay nightlife.

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. A Berl-based group om the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee was found 1949 to rume the efforts ma by the first gay and lbian movement. 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.