Gay Germany Cultural Tour wh Cary Harrison of HE Travel

Contents:

• GAY GERMANY TRAVEL GUI
• GAY EUROPE TRAVEL GUI
• GAY GERMANY CULTURAL TOUR
• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
• THE ULTIMATE GAY GERMANY ERARY: 2 WEEKS CLUDG GAY ATRIA
• GAY MUNICH TRAVEL GUI – GERMANY
• HE TRAVEL – GAY TRAVEL TOURS, GAY ADVENTURE TRAVEL, ACTIVE VATNS
• GAY DRN TRAVEL GUI – GERMANY
• GAY-FRIENDLY TOURS GERMANY
• BERL'S GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS

GAY GERMANY TRAVEL GUI

Many German polins and celebri are gay or lbian, and most urban areas are exceptnally progrsive about LGBT visors and lols alike. But actually, the first public LGBTQ+ rights prott took place Germany, over a century earlier, 1867—one year before the term ‘homosexualy’ was ed, German!

GAY EUROPE TRAVEL GUI

The Nazis ma more severe and imprisoned 10, 000 gay men (and some lbians, although they were not vered by Paragraph 175) ncentratn mps, where they were marked wh the pk triangle—and a majory died.

GAY GERMANY CULTURAL TOUR

But there is plenty to see today to remember the highs and lows of German LGBTQ+ history, om the Monument to Homosexuals Persecuted unr Natnal Socialism and the Schwul Mm (Gay Mm), both Berl, to the Dtsche Eiche bar and bathhoe Munich, where Freddie Mercury hung out the 1970s. And let’s not fet Bavaria’s gay (and/or queer) kg, Mad Ludwig, and his Wagnerian fantasy stle, Nschwanste—the spiratn for Disney’s Snow Whe’s Castle. Germany ranks among the top gay-iendly vatn statns acrdg to the Spartac Gay Travel Inx 2018 due to the gay-iendly environment the major ci like Berl, Hamburg, and Cologne.

Therefore, numero gay bars var areas around the cy centers offer the opportuny to meet lols and other visors om all over the world. Distant natural wonrs, famo metropolis, theme parks, gay-sports events and far-away-iends are great reasons to travel.

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. Addnally, we will spend some days some of the most LGBTQ+ and gay-iendly German ci cludg Berl, Drn, Munich, Heilberg, and all the cute ltle villag, stl, and towns on our way. Although the LGBTQ+ and gay scen are prehensible, events, parti, and loli are offerg a diverse queer life for the lols and for LGBTQ+ travelers.

QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL

A small but lively gay muny, many bars, fés, and rtrants, and of urse, the river Elbe are creatg this very special Italian cy flair, even Germany. Once a year, Drn turns to the gay pal of Saxony, wh thoands of LGBTQ+ monstratg equaly and human rights at CSD Drn.

THE ULTIMATE GAY GERMANY ERARY: 2 WEEKS CLUDG GAY ATRIA

We will spend a uple of days Munich explorg some cultural herage, get to know the gay scene, and the bt plac to go for LGBTQ+ travelers. Simply a mt-do when travelg around the south-wtern part of Germany and perfectly loted for our followg gay cy trip! Jo our gay Germany tour where we’ll learn of ancient history, enter the stl of kgs, explore the secrets of The Third Reich, and end wh a stunng overlap to Oktoberft.

Learn about gay history before and throughout WWII and vis a private unrground book cellar filled wh rcued books om the famo book-burngs. Then, onto Munich, where we’ll get a taste of the lavish archectural styl of 19th-century palac such as Nschwanste, a fairy tale stle whose Bavarian kg was gay and “mysterly” drowned after refg to take his untry to war.

GAY MUNICH TRAVEL GUI – GERMANY

Maybe vis the Dtsche Eiche’s impecbly-clean gay snas & f (at the sna) as the snas peak early, between 5-7 pm, as they are social meetg spots and have an entirely different vibe om what Amerin versns are thought to be. The event started the 70s when gay leather/fetish Germans (the Munich Lns Club) crashed the Bräurosl beer tent and changed history. When upl do jo , ’s ually bee they’re lookg forward to teractg wh a gay group; if they wanted a holiday by themselv, they wouldn’t have signed up to travel wh .

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. 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.

HE TRAVEL – GAY TRAVEL TOURS, GAY ADVENTURE TRAVEL, ACTIVE VATNS

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

GAY DRN TRAVEL GUI – GERMANY

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. 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.

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.

GAY-FRIENDLY TOURS GERMANY

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. 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.

BERL'S GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS

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.

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.

As so-lled Rosa Radikale (pk radils), they revent homosexualy, unrstandg as a polil and anti-palistic promise of liberatn. 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.

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. On the same eveng as East Germany's first gay-themed feature film Comg Out celebrat s première, the Berl Wall falls: 's 9 November 1989.