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

Contents:

• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
• GAY GERMANY CULTURAL TOUR
• GAY MUNICH
• GAY MUNICH TRAVEL GUI – GERMANY
• THE ULTIMATE GAY GERMANY ERARY: 2 WEEKS CLUDG GAY ATRIA
• HE TRAVEL – GAY TRAVEL TOURS, GAY ADVENTURE TRAVEL, ACTIVE VATNS

QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL

But actually, the first public LGBTQ+ rights prott took place Germany, over a century earlier, 1867—one year before the term ‘homosexualy’ was ed, German!

The Nazis ma more severe and imprisoned 10, 000 gay men (and some lbians, although they were not vered by Paragraph 175) ncentratn mps, where they were marked wh the pk triangle—and a majory died. But there is plenty to see today to remember the highs and lows of German LGBTQ+ history, om the Monument to Homosexuals Persecuted unr Natnal Socialism and the Schwul Mm (Gay Mm), both Berl, to the Dtsche Eiche bar and bathhoe Munich, where Freddie Mercury hung out the 1970s. And let’s not fet Bavaria’s gay (and/or queer) kg, Mad Ludwig, and his Wagnerian fantasy stle, Nschwanste—the spiratn for Disney’s Snow Whe’s Castle.

Germany ranks among the top gay-iendly vatn statns acrdg to the Spartac Gay Travel Inx 2018 due to the gay-iendly environment the major ci like Berl, Hamburg, and Cologne.

GAY GERMANY CULTURAL TOUR

Therefore, numero gay bars var areas around the cy centers offer the opportuny to meet lols and other visors om all over the world. Distant natural wonrs, famo metropolis, theme parks, gay-sports events and far-away-iends are great reasons to travel.

GAY MUNICH

Many German polins and celebri are gay or lbian, and most urban areas are exceptnally progrsive about LGBT visors and lols alike.

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.

GAY MUNICH TRAVEL GUI – GERMANY

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. 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.

THE ULTIMATE GAY GERMANY ERARY: 2 WEEKS CLUDG GAY ATRIA

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. 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. 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.

HE TRAVEL – GAY TRAVEL TOURS, GAY ADVENTURE TRAVEL, ACTIVE VATNS

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. This cema maly shows gay and lbian films, and has been a bean for queer cema the rabow neighbourhood sce 1995.

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. One of the first gay venu Berl, notor for equent raids by the police, had already been open Jägerstrasse sce 1885. 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.

Another homosexual associatn is found wh an exclive Unn for Male Culture, which lled self the Communy of the Unique. 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. The -owner of the rtrant, Alma Dalbelli, ntu nng the bs as the Como om 1905 on: was Berl's very first gay we bar.

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. 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.

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.