Bt of LGBTQ+ Germany: Highlights of a Gay Couple Road Trip

Contents:

• THE ULTIMATE GAY GERMANY ERARY: 2 WEEKS CLUDG GAY ATRIA
• DON’T OVERLOOK ATRIA’S GAY PRISON DRAMA ‘GREAT FREEDOM’ THE INTERNATNAL OSR RACE
• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS ATRIA
• GAY PEOPLE

THE ULTIMATE GAY GERMANY ERARY: 2 WEEKS CLUDG GAY ATRIA

Take two weeks and we’ll show you the very bt of gay Germany, wh a ltle Atria for good measure. Photo: Marc ZimmerGay GermanyThe pnacle for many Euro-trippg gay travellers, Germany is renowned for fiercely progrsive attus and laws that allow everyone to live any way they choose. In Germany, you n fd some of the bt gay venu anywhere the world, wh lendars packed full of annual events such as Gay Pri sprgtime and other niche LGBTQ ftivals throughout the Berl and Cologne, the gay scene is particularly stand out, profferg broad muni of rabow-flag-flyg lols where ternatnals are warmly weled.

Likewise, wh the smaller ci of Hamburg, Frankfurt and Munich, the gay scene remas sizable and open to all. Nicknamed ‘Mahattan’ for this very reason, Frankfurt offers a vibrant nightlife and an tablished gay scene centred on the cy’s ‘Bermuda Triangle’ on Alte Gasse the downtown area. After the queer dis ends, explore a ltle further om the ma triangle for the cy’s gay snas and cisg spots.

As well as allowg for Julie Andrews themed photos, gay Salzburg is surprisgly smopolan wh a lively party scene ma all the better thanks to the high number of ternatnal tourists. HOSI is one such anisatn hostg regular events and cy tours, wh the handful of gay bars and clubs also servg as popular meetg pots. There’s no better place to see this actn than wh the Glockenbachviertel neighbourhood where hipster bars and the cy’s gay scene li on quat 18th-century plazas and wh grand four-storey terrac.

DON’T OVERLOOK ATRIA’S GAY PRISON DRAMA ‘GREAT FREEDOM’ THE INTERNATNAL OSR RACE

Well-tablished sce the 1960s, Munich gay life is active all year round but peaks durg Pri Ftival and once aga durg Gay Oktoberft, the rnchier versn of the famed ternatnal beer ftival. For the bt revelri Gay Nürnberg, vis durg the two-week Old Town Ftival or Internatnal Organ Week when folk mic tak over the entire Old Town.

Wh the centre of gay Drn, don’t miss the Theaterplatz, a buzzg market square showsg Italian high Renaissance sign si-by-si wh the rather more classil styl of Semper Opera Hoe. When night falls, whether you’re lookg for the eedom of a dark room or a kky fetish lounge, Berl n surely satisfy, though you might want to set your safe word ’s openns is no secret and well as disverg s weird and wonrful gay subcultur, you’ll also fd more faiar gay nightlife the neighbourhood of Schöneberg or at any step along the cy’s Queer Walkg Tour, which also pass a number of cultural spots, such as world’s first queer mm and var queer bookshops. Gay Pri – otherwise known as the Christopher Street Day Para – isn’t the only queer ftival vyg for your attentn, however, as Berl leather fetish weeks (there are two!

TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS ATRIA

Bis Schöneberg, other alternative gay areas Berl clu Friedrichsha, Krzberg and Nköln, though the entire cy is typilly gay-iendly terra. The rights and cln of the LGBTQ+ muny – lbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgenr, and other queer inti – are of utmost importance. Atria me a remarkable fourth out of 197 untri ranked the Spartac Gay Travel Inx 2019.

The untry legalized homosexualy 1971 and troduced prehensive anti-discrimatn measur 2004. While there aren’t official numbers on the size of the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr populatn Atria, a 2016 ECRI Report claims that 6. The untry’s larger ci are also home to many gay-iendly areas, while a general air of cln pervas the nightlife scene.

GAY PEOPLE

Before this law change, registered partnerships were the only optn available to gay and lbian upl.

It remarks that those intifyg as gay or lbian are sometim discrimated agast the ial stag of hirg when up agast heterosexual applints. When lookg for temporary acmodatn and hotels, travel bookg platform misterbandb provis a curated list of gay-iendly hotels Atria and beyond. In fact, Atria lifted the ban on gay men donatg blood 2019 and replaced wh a 12-month abstence perd for gay and bi men.

That said, major ci like Vienna have an array of gay bars, although the scene is not as thrivg as many other European ci. Meanwhile, the fetish scene looks forward to the annual Wien Schwarz ftivi and the Gay Snow Happeng hs the slop of Söln March. Concha Wurst beme one of the most famo gay Atrians after wng the 2014 Eurovisn Song Contt wh breakout h Rise Like a Phoenix.

Major LGBT+ anizatns clu HOSI Wien, Atria’s olst and largt gay, lbian, and bisexual associatn, and The Atrian Lbian and Gay Fom (ALGF) and Ao Rabow Atria (ARA) for LGBT+ migrants om Ai Atria. Türkis Rosa Lila Villa – the queer muny center for lbian, gay, bi, pan, ter, and trans people Vienna. Still, he had an effect: a few liberal-md lleagu accepted his notn of an nate gay inty, and a Bavarian official privately nfsed to siar yearngs.

”The first chapter of Robert Beachy’s “Gay Berl: Birthplace of a Morn Inty” (Knopf) begs wh an acunt of Ulrichs’s dac act.

The tle of the chapter, “The German Inventn of Homosexualy, ” telegraphs a prcipal argument of the book: although same-sex love is as old as love self, the public disurse around , and the polil movement to w rights for , arose Germany the late neteenth and early twentieth centuri. This msage may surprise those who believe that gay inty me of age London and New York, sometime between the Osr Wil trials and the Stonewall rts.

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