The LGBT Travel Gui (A FABULOUS Gui to Gay Travel • 2023)

Contents:

• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
• BERL'S GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS
• GAY GERMANY TRAVEL GUI
• GAYLOTOR ®
• LGBTQ+ BERL – THE CY’S BT GAY BARS, CLUBS AND SNAS
• GAY BERL
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS BERL
• LGBTQ TRAVEL: A FABULOUS GUI TO GAY TRAVEL 2023

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.

BERL'S GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS

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. 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.

GAY GERMANY TRAVEL GUI

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. 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.

GAYLOTOR ®

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.

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

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. When the Berl Wall is built 1961, the divid cy of Berl los s leadg role, and s appeal, as the cy of eedom for gays and lbians for a to e. 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.

GAY BERL

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”.

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. 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.

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS BERL

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.

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.

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.

LGBTQ TRAVEL: A FABULOUS GUI TO GAY TRAVEL 2023

While Berl’s Schöneberg neighborhood is the historic gayborhood, a lot of Berl’s bt bars are actually further east the Krzberg and Nkölln neighborhoods. Inic electronic clubs, such as Bergha (a longtime favore for gay men), Tror, and Sisyphos, attract thoands of club-goers each and every weekend. Explore the life of Karl Herich Ulrichs, how he veloped the world’s first queer and trans inti, and how he fought agast the crimalizatn of homosexualy.

Unrstand Hler’s ntradictory relatnship to homosexualy, why there were openly gay Nazis, and what happened to LGBTQIA+ people the Nazi ncentratn mps. Better unrstand why an entire generatn of gay and bisexual men was trmatized by the AIDS crisis, how the Wt-Berl nightclub SchwuZ beme the center of activism, and why the Berl Wall was referred to as the ndom of the GDR. From the trans muny’s “Chez Romy Haag” and s nightlife revolutn to the Metropol’s gay muny; om SO36’s Gayhane to the emergence of Bergha as the world’s most famo club: Ga an appreciatn for the fluence of the queer and trans muni to Berl’s ternatnally acclaimed nightlife – and learn about where to bt go out Berl today.

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.

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. Unr the Third Reich, however, homosexualy was btally outlawed: gays and lbians were round up and taken to ncentratn mps and often murred. 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. This is a distant memory today: the charismatic cy mayor, Kls Wowere, nicknamed “Wowi”, is openly gay and ’s not unmon to see glzy transvt dancg on tabl at even nservative bash.

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. “London Callg” at Schwuz – Every first Friday of the month, this die Br-pop night at one of Berl’s most laid-back gay clubs is my favore night there. 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.