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Café Dorian Gray
Advertised as "The Intimate Nexus of the Ladies-World", this was mostly a lesbian bar with live tango music (and an irritating male violinist who begs for tips) and good food. The front was decorated in an artistic café style with real flowers on the…
Monocle-Bar
The Monocle-Bar was one of three prominent transgender-inclusive bars in Weimar era Berlin, alongside its peers Silhouette and Mikado Bar. Remembered of those three as being popular with actors, the Monocle, along with its peers, rose to popularity…
Tags: 1920s, 1930s, bar, gay bar, gay club, kabarett, Nazi involvement, trans, transgender club, Weimar
Casa Kuà
Casa Kuà is a trans BIPOC focused health center, specifically aiming to help those impacted by racism within the German health care system. The name comes from the Spanish word 'casa' meaning 'home', and the Chinese word 'kuà' meaning 'trans.' The…
Tags: 2020s, activism, BIPOC, education, feminism, health center, library, medical, queer, social justice, social services, trans
Bülow-Casino
The Bülow-Casino was a "women's club" and transgender-friendly Bar made by Helene Diller and Kathe Bloche in 1910. They allowed the renting of rooms inside their bar as the owners may have been strapped for cash. The Bar later dissolved in 1914…
Tags: 1910s, bar, club, hotel, lesbian, Pre-Weimar, trans, transgender club
Eisenherz Buchladen
Eisenherz Buchladen (originally Prinz Eisenherz Buchladen) is a bookstore founded in 1978 by members of the new gay movement emerging at the time. The store functioned as a bookstore as well as a meeting place for queer people, often young gay men…
BOILER
BOILER is a men's sauna and bathhouse that functions as a cruising location for gay men in Berlin. The bathhouse's website has a lot of information on their rules and sex-positive policies, and they're sponsored by/associated with a number of German…
Tags: bathhouse, cruising, gay male, genderqueer, non-binary, queer, sauna, trans
Das Institut für Sexualwissenschaft
Das Institut für Sexualwissenschaft was the world's first queer gender and sexuality research institute. It was founded by sexologist, physician, and queer advocate Magnus Hirschfeld in 1919, and operated until it was ransacked by the Nazi affiliated…
Mikado
Mikado was a famous club where costume balls were held for trans (and cross dressing) women. Outside the club was also a known location for sex workers to wait and meet up with people. One of the first crossdressers at Mikado was someone called Sir…
Tags: bar, Berlin, crossdressing, drag, music, prostitution, queer club, trans, transgender club