Dis and Gay Culture the 1970s

Contents:

• KLS STOCKHSEN ON THE FRONT AND GERMANY’S GAY CLUB SCENE
• GAY THE GDR? THE GAY BERLER VTIGAT AHEAD OF “COMG OUT” SCREENG
• LGBTQ+ BERL – THE CY’S BT GAY BARS, CLUBS AND SNAS
• NAZIS, SEX AND STASI PARANOIA: CISG THROUGH GAY LIFE COLD WAR GERMANY
• THE 10 BEST BERL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BERL
• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• GAY DIS ENGLISH DICTNARY
• MOSW GAY BARS
• GAY GERMANY

KLS STOCKHSEN ON THE FRONT AND GERMANY’S GAY CLUB SCENE

Boris Dlugosch and Kls Stockhsen Katja Ruge From 1983 to 1997, Germany’s gay club scene revolved around the Front, a cultural hub loted a basement Hamburg’s bs district.

GAY THE GDR? THE GAY BERLER VTIGAT AHEAD OF “COMG OUT” SCREENG

The German pal has been nsired a gay hotspot sce the early 1900s, and Berl’s LGBT nightlife ntu to partner Natalie and I recently spent almost a week Berl. As I already poted out, Berl has been at the centre of LGBT culture sce the early 1900s, when the cy was the unofficial gay pal of see, Berl has been a cy of ‘firsts’ on the road to LGBT equaly. 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.

From what we n tell, the club is mostly equented by young gay men lookg to have a good time, however you will fd your fair share of lbians and alli pendg on the night.

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. Chantal’s Hoe of Shame @ Suici CircOne of the most popular gay parti Berl, Chantal’s Hoe of Shame is a cult favoure among gays and straights alike. 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.

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When the untry crimalised homosexualy 1968 – renrg Germany’s famo anti-homosexualy law, Paragraph 175, els (Wt Germany didn’t repeal 175 until after rnifitn) – the GDR did seem light years ahead. ” Another difference is that Ossi gays were spared the trmatic experience of HIV and AIDS that was polilly mobilisg LGBT people the Wt and sparked the awakeng of the 1980s.

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However, when DEFA (the state-owned film stud) fally gave the green light to the GDR’s first (and only) feature alg wh homosexualy – Heer Carow’s betiful Comg Out – premiered on the eveng of November 9, 1989 at Ko Internatnal – the same night the Berl Wall fell.

Twelve years later, when the DVD release exposed ternatnal dienc to the film, Comg Out was my first troductn to gay life Germany as a whole – a ttament to not jt as a great gay film, but great film general.

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Loted the same buildg as Bergha, this gay sex club is perhaps the only lotn Berl where crazier stuff is known to go down then s more famo neighbour's dark rooms. For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsThe former East German lear Erich Honecker loved kissg fellow munist bigwigs on the lips – a famo photo shows him locked a “aternal” mouth-to-mouth embrace wh his Soviet unterpart, Leonoid when me to the realy of gay sex behd the Berl Wall, official attus were markedly wholale persecutn of gays and lbians unr munism is exposed a documentary jt released Germany. Out East Berl by the filmmakers Jochen Hicks and Andreas Strohfeldts shows how they were systematilly ostracised by a totalarian regime which pretend to the outsi world that was tolerant of homosexualy.

Even high rankg munists were kicked out of the party if their homosexualy beme ostensibly show how “progrsive” socialism uld be, East Germany formally legalised gay sex 1968 – five years before homosexualy was fully crimalised Wt Germany.

But as Christian Pulz, one of 13 East German gay and lbian people terviewed the film, puts : “We never nsired East Germany to be left-wg or progrsive.

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But when his superrs disvered he was gay, he was kicked out of the party and his reer ambns were stantly Kg, whose father tght Marxist-Lenism, suffered a siar fate.

But when she found a lbian rights group, she was prsured by the regime to emigratg to the Stasi also ed “Romeos” – gay rmants who would form timate relatnships wh other gays and then report on their activi. Eduard Stapel, a Romeo victim, rells how he disvered the extent of the Stasi’s surveillance of gays only when he read his secret police file after the fall of the Berl Wall. The film, produced by DEFA, the German Democratic Republic’s state-owned productn pany, was the first, and last, film ma about homosexualy unr the munist regime East Germany.

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The difficult road the gay muny had to walk “the workers’ and farmers’ state, ” as East Germany scribed self, until was able to raise public discsn of the muny and have s rights regnized is scribed by the Amerin historian Samuel Clow Huneke his new book “Stat of Liberatn: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy Cold War Germany. 'The book, published by the Universy of Toronto Prs, offers a prehensive and illumatg look at the gay sexual and polil history of a divid Germany durg the era of the Iron Curta, on both sis of the Berl Wall.

The thor shows how the Nazi past ntued to st s shadow over the stat of gay men and women both Wt and East Germany the s after World War II, and par the separate stggl by the gay muni each untry.

Then Everythg Changed The Gay, Jewish Scientist Spared by the Nazis How We've Supprsed the Queer History of the Holot This is the first book by Huneke, 33, a profsor of morn European history at Gee Mason Universy Virgia.

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The Nazis worried that gay men were naturally nspiratorial and th posed a threat to the stabily of the ernment“When I started to rearch, I very quickly realized that this history was still fed by a Cold War mdset that se ‘the Wt’ as sentially good and ‘the East’ as sentially evil. The assumptn was that gay liberatn had e about bee of palism or liberalism, that there was some necsary nnectn between LGBTQ polics and liberal mocracy.

” The gay spy Dcribg the differenc between the two untri on LGBTQ issu, Huneke first not the persecutn and opprsn that were the lot of many gay people durg the dozen years of the Third Reich. “The Nazi party was extraordarily hostile to all forms of queerns, and 1935 the party passed a new versn of Article 175, the law that crimalized male homosexualy Germany.

At the same time, the Socialist Uny Party that led East Germany remaed hostile to homosexualy wh s own ranks, g as an exce to purge troublome party members and often stokg anim agast LGBTQ people anti-Wtern propaganda.

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” The ver of Samuel Clow Huneke's new Universy of Toronto PrsIn one of the most pellg chapters of his book, Huneke exam the rol played by members of the LGBTQ muny, pecially gay men, spy wars between the two blocs –as agents and rmants, and as subjects for surveillance.

Both the Stasi – the East German secret police – and Wt German telligence were eply terted gay people and attempted to filtrate their social circl.

In the Uned Stat, fears that gay men and lbians posed a danger to natnal secury led to the Lavenr Sre, a s-long purge of gay and lbian employe of the feral ernment.

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'Intelligence agenci were so nvced of gay men’s nspiratorial natur that they actively reced gay agents to gather telligence for them'“What I disvered the archiv, however, was that telligence agenci Cold War Germany were so nvced of gay men’s nspiratorial natur and the class-crossg potential of the gay subculture, that they actively reced gay agents to gather telligence for them. In the Wt German state of Hse, for stance, there was a public sndal 1953 when me to light that the domtic telligence service had tasked a gay officer wh buildg a work of gay rmants. ” A fateful meetg In a way, the moment when gay activism was born East Germany was the locker room of a swimmg pool East Berl, where 1971, two young gay men met by chance – 18-year-old Michael Eggert and 21-year-old Peter Rsch.

Soviet soldiers watch a man at a meetg of gay liberatn groups at East Berl's Alexanrplatz, Germany, the summer of AP Photo/Jockel FckThis group, Huneke says, was “spired by gay liberatn activism Wt Germany, and they cid to try to nvce the munist ernment that need to addrs the prejudice and discrimatn that many gay men and lbians still faced. This group, which eventually took the name Homosexual Intert-group Berl or HIB, started anizg barets, poetry readgs, and other private social events, while also petng the ernment for regnn. ” Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf, who hosted gay activists her private mm, where they met, hosted large parti, barets, and Eckertz-Popp / ullste bild / GHow did the great change eventually take place the stat of the LGBTQ muny the 1980s, which was the last of the existence of East Germany?

Searchg about for a way of stallg the groups’ anizatnal efforts, the Stasi cid that the ernment would have to solve what me to ll the ‘humanarian problems of homosexual people the GDR's [i. They rolled back prs censorship of queer issu, allowed gay men and lbians to accs the untry’s work of sexual health unselg centers, missned books and films about homosexualy, worked wh gay and lbian groups to spread rmatn about HIV, equalized the age of nsent, and adopted a new policy of allowg homosexual people to serve openly the ary.