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Contents:

• GAY CY LGBTQ LIBRARY
• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• GAY CY HAS EXPAND E PIKE LIBRARY AND ROURCE CENTER — AND THREE DOLLAR BILL CEMA AS A NEW ROOMMATE
• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
• GAY CY LIBRARY
• GAY CY LIBRARY VATN RENTALS
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• MOSW GAY MAP

GAY CY LGBTQ LIBRARY

The LGBTQ Iniative was created to nnect lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer muni wh the wi array of rourc, servic, and expertise that The New York Public Library has to offer.

Other highlights clu the One Archive; the Natnal Archive of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr History; and the Lbian Herstory Archiv, among many other important llectns. In addn, Beg Visible: The Legacy of Stonewall was the largt and most extensive display of lbian and gay history ever mounted a mm or gallery space when opened 1994.

A follow-up publitn, Beg Visible: An Illtrated History of Lbian and Gay Life Twentieth-Century Ameri, by exhibn curators Molly McGarry and Fred Wasserman, was published by Pengu Stud.

QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL

More recent exampl cludg Particular Voic: Robert Giard's Portras of Gay and Lbian Wrers; Bedlam Days: The Early Plays of Charl Ludlam and The Ridiculo Theatril Company; and Vaslav Nijsky: Creatg a New Artistic Era. 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.

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

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.

GAY CY HAS EXPAND E PIKE LIBRARY AND ROURCE CENTER — AND THREE DOLLAR BILL CEMA AS A NEW ROOMMATE

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.

WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

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.

GAY CY LIBRARY

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 CY LIBRARY VATN RENTALS

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. The Scientific-Humanarian Commtee had been filg petns sce 1897 llg on the Reichstag to abolish the special law agast homosexual men.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

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.

MOSW GAY MAP

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.

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.