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

Contents:

• GAY TIM
• WHSMH NI HOMOPHOBIA AFTER LEAMGTON BRANCH TAK GAY MAGAZ OFF THE SHELF
• GAY JAMAI INPENNCE TIME
• WHSMH BLAM SHOPLIFTERS FOR REMOVAL OF GAY MAGAZ
• A CELEBRATN OF GAY WRG OM THE PAST 100 YEARS
• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
• HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

GAY TIM

: The Story of Polari, Bra's Secret Gay LanguagePl BakerPaperbackIn StockOn Earth We're Briefly Geo: 'A masterpiece' - Max PorterOcean VuongPaperbackIn StockViewed 12 of 66 Rults. Gay Tim ver for July 2017Gay Tim, also known as GT, formerly Gay Tim (rporatg Gay News), is a glossy A4 monthly magaze published by Millivr Prowler Group and sold mastream newsagents, such as W H Smh.

NewsHIGH street newsagent WHSmh has nied accatns of homophobia after apparently whdrawg pi of Attu and Gay Tim magaz om display s Leamgton pany was the subject of an outcry on social workg se Twter on Sunday after one er published a photo of a display tellg ctomers to go to the unter and ask for pi of Gay Tim and Attu says the magaz, along wh others, were whdrawn om display bee of repeated cints of fdg the display the Para branch on Sunday, Cambridge wrer and sger-songwrer Toby Dylan @twkleboi tweeted a picture wh the words: “So @WHSNewReleas. “Gay Tim and Attu, along wh a small number of other magaz, were temporarily removed om the display shelv the WHSmh store Leamgton Spa as a rult of repeated cints of theft this store.

”Copi of both Gay Tim and Attu were back on display on Monday, but mic magaze Jazzwise was not on the shelv, apparently a victim of siar unexpected victim of fallout om the furore was twter er William Smh, an Oh man whose @whsmh inty scrib him as a “God-fearg hband and father and lover of all thgs tech” who found himself the foc of misdirected righteo fury on Sunday.

WHSMH NI HOMOPHOBIA AFTER LEAMGTON BRANCH TAK GAY MAGAZ OFF THE SHELF

When nservative policians started makg anti-LGBTQ+ speech on the mpaign trail, Ptr Kalwaryjski, a gay man om wtern Poland, cid was time to pack up and leave.

Weeks after a 2019 European parliamentary electn, Kalwaryjski and his boyiend moved om the cy of Poznan to Berl – jog a growg number of LGBTQ+ Pol who have fled homophobia at home by settlg the German pal.

GAY JAMAI INPENNCE TIME

The rights of gay, bisexual and transgenr Pol have e unr creasg prsure sce 2015 when the natnalist Law and Jtice (PiS) party me to power, but for some LGBTQ+ people, the 2019 electn mpaign was the last straw.

The parture of young, skilled workers like Kuncewicz and Kalwaryjski amid warngs that homophobic polici and discrimatn are g a “bra dra” and enomic loss untri cludg Poland, Hungary and Ukrae. Reported hate crim agast LGBTQ+ people Poland more than doubled to 150 2019, acrdg to official data, though the te figure is likely far higher due to wispread reluctance to report homophobic attacks. Most PopularVlet Chachki reveals her “nspiracy theory” about Drag Race season 7CultureBy Sam Damshenas“It feels so liberatg”: Drag Race star Adore Delano out as transLifeBy Conor ClarkBrokeback Mounta thor wish she’d “never wrten the story”CultureBy Sam DamshenasTroye Sivan shuts down claims that he’s a ‘crazy power bottom’CultureBy Gay Tim“I have a boyiend!

I rearched and wrote all but three of those lumns (havg taken a sabbatil for a round-the-world trip) and through I got a good overview of how the gay rights stggle veloped durg that val perd. I had been wrg for the emergg gay prs for some time on a eelance basis durg the late 1970s and 1980s, and ocsnally ntributed to the monthly magaze Him that was published by Millivr.

WHSMH BLAM SHOPLIFTERS FOR REMOVAL OF GAY MAGAZ

Him had started out as a male p-up magaze but had gradually morphed to a more wi-rangg gay perdil, seekg to fill the void left by the ath of much-missed and lamented Gay News.

A CELEBRATN OF GAY WRG OM THE PAST 100 YEARS

Him, turn, beme Him/Gay Tim and eventually jt Gay Tim (and later, unacuntably, GT before beg Gay Tim aga unr new ownership), a tle that is, at the time of wrg, still extant and wily available. Some were succsful – Capal Gay ran om 1981 to 1995 – though jt served the thrivg London gay scene of the time– others lasted only for a few edns before they fold.

By the time Him reached s 62nd edn, the edor asked if I would like to wre some ment on the creasgly disturbg way that the straight prs was verg gay issu. The tabloids might be sptg feathers about the sudn, unashamed and assertive visibily of homosexuals but the populatn at large was generally a lot more sangue – or maybe was jt different. All the same, as gay rights ched forward, the tabloids beme creasgly aggrsive their attacks on what they regard as a highly unsirable and praved liftyle.

As Parliament stggled wh var elements of law reform – the age of nsent, Sectn 28, civil partnerships and then marriage, adoptn and fosterg, gays the ary, protectn om discrimatn at work and the provisn of goods and serv – I was able to reflect through the Mediawatch lumn where the opposn was g om.

QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL

Beg an optimist, I prefer to thk that there has been a real change attus and that while homophobia still bubbl unr the surface for some people, for most is no longer an issue. There were many other issu – same-sex kiss soap operas, outg, gay parentg, the e of gay liv to sre polil pots – all provid strong material for the Mediawatch lumn.

We haven’t gaed plete equaly yet, and there is still plenty of hostily some quarters, but not enough to make a satisfyg life pletely impossible for gay people. Straight Jacket – Matthew Todd Part memoir, part ground-breakg polemic, Straight Jacket looks beneath the shy fa of ntemporary gay culture and asks if gay people are as happy as they uld be – and if not, why not? Like People History – Felice Pino From Malibu Beach s palmist surfer days to the legendary parti at Fire Island P the 70s, om San Francis durg s gayt era to AIDS activism Greenwich Village the 90s, this is a heroic and funny saga of the last three s by someone who saw everythg.

London Triptych – Jonathan Kemp Three men, three liv and three eras suoly entwe a dark, startlg and unsettlg narrative of sex, exploatn and pennce set agast London’s strangely nstant gay unrworld.

HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI

By the time of his ath New York four s later, he had bee one of Cuba’s most important poets, an outspoken cric of Castro’s regime and one of the leadg gay voic of the twentieth century. 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.

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.

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

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. 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. 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. 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.

JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

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. 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. 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. 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. By the mid-1920s, at the height of the Prohibn era, they were attractg as many as 7, 000 people of var rac and social class—gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and straight alike.

The Begngs of a New Gay World“In the late 19th century, there was an creasgly visible prence of genr-non-nformg men who were engaged sexual relatnships wh other men major Amerin ci, ” says Chad Heap, a profsor of Amerin Studi at Gee Washgton Universy and the thor of Slummg: Sexual and Racial Enunters Amerin Nightlife, 1885-1940. By the 1920s, gay men had tablished a prence Harlem and the bohemian mec of Greenwich Village (as well as the seedier environs of Tim Square), and the cy’s first lbian enclav had appeared Harlem and the Village. Each gay enclave, wrote Gee Chncey his book Gay New York: Genr, Urban Culture, and the Makg of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, had a different class and ethnic character, cultural style and public reputatn.

Gay Life the Jazz AgeAs the Uned Stat entered an era of unprecented enomic growth and prospery the years after World War I, cultural mor loosened and a new spir of sexual eedom reigned. Though New York Cy may have been the epicenter of the so-lled "Pansy Craze, " gay, lbian and transgenr performers graced the stag of nightspots ci all over the untry. ”At the same time, lbian and gay characters were beg featured a slew of popular “pulp” novels, songs and on Broadway stag (cludg the ntroversial 1926 play The Captive) and Hollywood—at least prr to 1934, when the motn picture dtry began enforcg censorship guil, known as the Hays Co.

In the mid- to late ‘30s, Heap pots out, a wave of sensatnalized sex crim “provoked hysteria about sex crimals, who were often— the md of the public and the md of thori—equated wh gay men. ” By the post-World War II era, a larger cultural shift toward earlier marriage and suburban livg, the advent of TV and the anti-homosexualy csas champned by Joseph McCarthy would help ph the flowerg of gay culture reprented by the Pansy Craze firmly to the natn’s rear-view mirror. ” The edian Bill Maher said on his show that by 2054, if we follow what he se as the current trajectory, “we will all be gay, ” addg that the rise the number of younger people intifyg as transgenr seemed spic.

Bee of the fluence of Schorr put siarly Natnal Review: “To suggt that social suggtibily uld be playg a role the skyrocketg numbers of young girls’ exprsg their sire to bee mal, for example, is not of urse to say that gay and transgenr people would not exist whout the topics’ beg discsed the public square. This is the first time Amerin history that gay and trans people have been able to live as themselv any real way, wh jobs and marriag and dogs and ts and visibily. In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture.