LGBT culture in Berlin
Berlin, the capital city of Germany, has an active LGBT community with a long history. Berlin has many gaydistricts but the first in the world and the biggest is the Schöneberg gay district.
History
Berlin has a long history of gay culture and influence on popular entertainment, and according to some authors, in the 1920s the city was the Gay Capital of Europe. In 1896 the world's first gay magazine started in Berlin, called Der Eigene. During the 1920s and 1930s the world's first gay village was in Berlin's Schöneberg. The first gay demonstration ever also started in Berlin in 1922.[1]
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Der Eigene, the world's first gay magazine
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Gay club Eldorado, 1932
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Homosexuelle Aktion Westberlin, 1971
Geography
Berlin has many gay districts but Schöneberg is the main gayborhood of Berlin. Other gay districts are Prenzlauer Berg and Kreuzberg. The Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Under Nazism is in Tiergarten.
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Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Under Nazism
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Gay bear, Nollendorfplatz
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Rainbow Column, Nollendorfplatz
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Memorial "Pink Triangle", metrostation Nollendorfplatz
Economy
LGBT businesses in Berlin include bars, clubs, restaurants, and shops. The most of them are concentrated in Schöneberg, close to Nollendorfplatz.
Media
The lesbian magazine L-Mag and the gay male magazines Siegessäule and Blu are in Berlin. These three magazines include English texts. Schwules Museum is the world's first gay museum.
Politics
Klaus Wowereit has been the Governing Mayor of Berlin since the 21 October 2001 state elections. He is gay and coined the now famous phrase I'm gay, and that is a good thing."
Festivals
Berlin Pride is the gay pride parade in Berlin. Other prideparades ine Berlin are Kreuzberg Pride and Dyke March. Other festival are Folsom Europe and Easter in Berlin. Other famous festivals are Teddy Award and Hustlaball.
Notable residents
See also
Notes
- ↑ Krauss, Kenneth (2004). The drama of fallen France: reading la comédie sans tickets. Albany: State University of New York. p. 11. ISBN 0-7914-5953-5.
Further reading
- Mel Gordon: Voluptuous Panic, The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin, Los Angeles 2000, ISBN 0-922915-58-X
- Manfred Herzer: Liebe und Vernunft der Urninge, Das schwule Berlin vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zum Jahr 1933, in: Berlin von hinten, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-9800578-0-1, S.7-38
- Ross, Alex. "Berlin Story." The New Yorker. January 26, 2015.
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