Vios of the HtlaBall Berl The worlds most famo & biggt gay-p*rn event

Contents:

• LBIAN AND GAY FTIVAL
• CLASSIL MIC AND FETISH UNE HISTORIL CENTER OF GAY CULTURE
• THE LBIAN AND GAY CY FTIVAL

LBIAN AND GAY FTIVAL

The Lbian and Gay Ftival Berl is Europe's largt street ftival of s kd. It tak place around Nollendorfplatz, the tradnal gay stompg ground Schöneberg. Europe's largt Lbian and Gay Ftival (German: Lbisch-Schwul Stadtft) will take place for the 29th time 2023.

CLASSIL MIC AND FETISH UNE HISTORIL CENTER OF GAY CULTURE

Program of the Lbian and Gay FtivalFtival visors n look forward to a live entertament program on six ma stag, featurg var German and ternatnal bands and DJs of all genr. Celebratg Love, Coexistence and CommunyThe Lbian and Gay Ftival offers s visors a wi range of rmatn and sal booths, a variety of gastronomic scene bs wh zy beer garns, cktail and champagne bars and a varied culary offer. The queer, gay and lbian scene Berl is huge and offers a large number of events, mms, shows and entertament optns to visors and lols.

July Berl offers high-profile events such as Botanil Night, the Christopher Street Day Para, the Komische Oper Ftival and the Lbian and Gay directly to:Pri EventsEvent HighlightsFolk FtivalsExhibnsFood EventsSpecialsTra ShowsConcerts. © dpaLbian and Gay FtivalJuly 20 and 21, 2024.

THE LBIAN AND GAY CY FTIVAL

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTberl dispatchFolsom Europe, a five-day ftival of ncerts and street parti, celebrat gay life, the leather scene and hard-won eedoms Mucha for The New York TimBERLIN — A hh fell over the hundreds of kksters gathered the pews of the Twelve Apostl Church Berl when the cellist, clad head-to-toe black leather, took a seat ont of the altar and began to play the back of the room, hers om the nun-themed drag troupe the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence watched him, the cellist was done, a leather-clad anist played Johann Sebastian Bach’s Prelu C major.

Neher of the Amerin versns, however, has the over-the-top reputatn of Folsom Europe, which gets s rnal and cultural chet om Berl, a cy whose vibrant year-round night-life draws everyone om gay sex tourists to Brish bachelorette parti.

History of the 19th and early 20th centuri, when the cy was a center of gay culture and activism.

”The centerpiece of Folsom Europe is a street fair that turns Schöneberg to a sort of kky twalk, where thoands of elaborately drsed participants — mostly gay, bisexual and transgenr men — drk, shop and show off their look.

Was found, they said, out of a sire to celebrate gay life and the leather scene Berl, which has boomed the years sce the ftival began. In Schöneberg, gay bars have been joed by a crop of high-end fetish shops that sell bpoke leather outfs and $150 off-the-rack wh many thgs Germany, the weight of history seemed pable even the rnival atmosphere of Folsom, which was held jt a few blocks om a memorial to the gay victims of the eedoms celebrated by the ftival began to be rved out over 150 years ago, when German rearchers ed the word “homosexualy” and began to discs beg gay not as a personal moral failg but as a naturally occurrg phenomenon, acrdg to the historian Robert Mucha for The New York Mucha for The New York TimGermany was also home to what Mr.

Beachy argu may be the first public g out, the morn sense of the term, when the lawyer Karl Herich Ulrichs argued for the crimalizatn of homosexualy before an 1867 gatherg of the Associatn of German Jurists and a seri of pamphlets wrten unr his real name. ”The sexologist Magn Hirschfeld, who found the world’s first gay rights anizatn, also lived and worked nearby until his anizatn was ransacked by Nazis who forced him to exile. More about Liam StackA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 8 of the New York edn wh the headle: Mic and Fetish Une a Center of Gay Culture.