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Contents:

• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
• GAY BERLIN
• BERL'S GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS
• BERL GAY TOURAN EARLY BASTN OF TOLERANCE: TODAY'S OPENNS AND TOLERANCE HAVE A LONG HISTORY.SELECTED HIGHLIGHTSCHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD'S APARTMENT, NEW GAY MEMORIAL, THE MAGN HIRSCHFELD INSTUTE, MEMORIAL TO THE MURRED HOMOSEXUALS, PL MORE...BIKE TOUR OF BERL
• GAY GERMANY TRAVEL GUI
• GAY BERL: A GUI FOR LGBT TRAVELERS
• LGBTQ+ BERL – THE CY’S BT GAY BARS, CLUBS AND SNAS

QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL

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. Every summer the Pri Weeks are celebrated wh the Lbian-Gay Cy Ftival, CSD on the Spree and many other events.

GAY BERLIN

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.

BERL'S GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS

Vis the Gay Mm Berl and fd a wi range of queer film programm Berl’s cemas.

In Berl's Gay Mm (Schwul Mm) you will always ga new sights to the world of the gay, lbian and transgenr scene. 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.

BERL GAY TOURAN EARLY BASTN OF TOLERANCE: TODAY'S OPENNS AND TOLERANCE HAVE A LONG HISTORY.SELECTED HIGHLIGHTSCHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD'S APARTMENT, NEW GAY MEMORIAL, THE MAGN HIRSCHFELD INSTUTE, MEMORIAL TO THE MURRED HOMOSEXUALS, PL MORE...BIKE TOUR OF BERL

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. Follow our tour through Schöneberg wh numero ports of ll for gays, lbians, bisexuals and transsexuals.

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.

GAY GERMANY TRAVEL GUI

The rabow neighbourhood also prents self as Berl's gay leather & fetish district, and wh a self-nfint prence. This cema maly shows gay and lbian films, and has been a bean for queer cema the rabow neighbourhood sce 1995. Back the 1920s, Berl had already bee a haven and refuge for gays and lbians om all over the world.

GAY BERL: A GUI FOR LGBT TRAVELERS

There are 170 clubs, bars and pubs for gays and lbians, and well as rto nightlife and a gay neighbourhood. 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. The Scientific-Humanarian Commtee – the very first gay and lbian anisatn the world – was found Berl.

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

One of the first gay venu Berl, notor for equent raids by the police, had already been open Jägerstrasse sce 1885. In 1900, Magn Hirschfeld is aware of six pubs known to be venu for gays and lbians.

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.

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. 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.

It is a doctors' clic and, at the same time, a centre for the gay and lbian emancipatn movement. 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. In 1921, there is an Internatnal Travel Gui to promote them – the very first gay and lbian gui.

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 petg gay and lbian associatns are uned their fight agast Paragraph 175 (which crimalis homosexual acts). 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. 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.