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- LGBTQ+ BERL – THE CY’S BT GAY BARS, CLUBS AND SNAS
- THE 10 BEST BERL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BERL
- THE 10 BEST GERMANY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS GERMANY
- QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
- THE BT GAY AND QUEER-IENDLY BARS AND CLUBS BERL
- GAY LIFE BERL IS STARTG TO ECHO A DARKER ERA
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In the 1920s, Berl beme the first cy the world to have a gay district, and Schoneberg went on to host the first-ever gay monstratn recent years, several other gay districts have popped up around the cy and sprkl of the gay scene n be found everywhere. But you are sure to see thgs that you’ll unlikely ever experience aga a nightclub members of the LGBT muny do go to the standard nights at K Kat, the exclive gay men only night lled Revolver Party is on once a month.
Neighbourhood: FriedrichshaOpeng hours: Every Thursday: 11 pm – early HoursPrice range: $$? @antoejulienGay-iendly hostels BerlLGBT travellers needn’t worry about experiencg any discrimatn when bookg hostels Berl. The ftival stck me as an ial opportuny to promote homosexual human rights on an ternatnal sle, particularly wh the munist bloc where, spe sometim liberal laws, public discsn of lbian and gay rights and the formatn of pennt gay polil anisatns were strictly forbidn. Homosexualy was still totally illegal Albania, Yugoslavia, Rumania and the Soviet Unn; had been crimalised Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and East Germany (officially known as the German Democratic Republic).
Wt Berlers vised gay bars the East and were ntact wh a number of gay members of the East German munist youth movement, the Free German Youth, who has recently e together to tablish an rmal, unrground circle, the Homosexual Intert Group Berl (HIB). I met two members of the Atralian legatn who were active the gay liberatn movement and who were also proment members of the Atralian Communist Party – probably the first Communist Party the world to endorse officially the newly-emergent lbian and gay liberatn movement.
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It had specifilly refed to accept legat om gay anisatns, partly out of pla heterosexist prejudice and partly Stalist revenge: the Amerin lbian and gay rights movement had dared to cricise Cuba for s persecutn of homosexuals who were, at the time, beg sent to labour mps for ‘re-tn’. I later heard reports om other legat that at a subsequent mass rally East Berl the US Black Power activist and munist, Angela Davis, who was a member of the Amerin legatn, nounced the lbian and gay liberatn movement as divisive and diversnary om the ma stggle agast palism and imperialism (although I have never been able to nfirm this, so Davis should be given the benef of the doubt). I was outnumbered and suggted a promise: the Brish legatn should attach a statement to s official wreath namg all the dissint groups and mori, cludg homosexuals, who were victims of the Holot.
In the dience were supporters om the Brish legatn and a ntgent om Homosexual Actn Wt Berl who me over pecially for the event, as well as a very brave group of gay sympathisers om the East German HIB and Free German Youth.
So, after nearly an hour’s lay, I rumed my speech wh all language channels operatg; however, I was later to learn that, wh the exceptn of the Rsian channel, all the translatns were of poor qualy, omtg or distortg much of the ntent – the German translatn, for example, leted all referenc to the Brish Young Communist League havg adopted a policy supportg the stggle for lbian and gay rights which had ma one of a handful of left-wg anisatns the world to do so at this time.
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’ I replied that offence was not tend and that surely my plard uld not be emed offensive when the East German ernment self had crimalised homosexualy 1968 (a year before Wt Germany) and had an official policy of tolerance towards lbians and gay men.
The outraged homophob, who clud leadg members of the Natnal Unn of Stunts and the Communist Party, lunged at me, fists flyg and attempted to rip up the plard Supporters the Brish legatn formed a human shield around me allowg the plard to rema tact for a while longer.
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At the end of a rowdy and timidatg 30 mute bate durg which my opponents shouted me down and circulated among the legat claimg (falsely) that the English translatn of my plard read ‘East Germany Persecut Homosexuals’, the vote went agast me by a slim majory on a reunt.
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This provoked an enraged charge by the leftist homophob; myself, and thirty sympathisers who gathered around me for protectn, were punched, kicked, spat on and battered over the heads wh banner pol.
We had gone barely forty yards along the road when we were set upon vlently by some of the anti-gay members of the Brish legatn who had apparently ci to stay behd and keep an eye on .
Stg on top of a high-rise block eight floors above Alexanr Platz on a balmy summer eveng, I was filled wh a mixture of fear and exhilaratn: fear at the thought of tentn by the East German thori and exhilaratn that we had jt staged the first lbian and gay rights monstratn East German history. The events East Berl also beme a talyst for the subsequent formatn of unrground gay discsn circl the Soviet Unn and Poland; and East Germany self, they ntributed to the nsolidatn and formalisatn of the already nascent unrground lbian and gay rights anisatn, the HIB.
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The Socialist Workers’ Party announced s support for ‘socialist gay liberatn’ although s motiv were primarily opportunistic: was ncerned to try and explo the events East Berl to bash the ‘Stalist burecrats’ of the Soviet Bloc and the Brish Communist Party.