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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…
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…
Silhouette
Silhouette was a Weimar era bar (1926-1933), located at Geisbergstrasse 24, and well known as fashionable, and smoke filled. Marlene Dietrich and the composer Friedrich Hollaender were two of Silhouette's regular customers. Both gay men and lesbians…
Club Monbijou (Monbijou des Westens)
A lesbian club within the Mali und Igel bar. It was opened by Elsa Conrad sometime in 1927, and closed in 1933 when Nazi Germany started a campaign to close all homosexual bars and clubs. The club (Mali und Igel) and the bar were both managed by Elsa…
Monte Casino
Strip club with a bar and "amateurish transvestite revue" for entertainment. Workers were known to give oral sex to male clients backstage while their wives remained by the bar and stage.
Candy Bar
Book release at the 'Candy Bar' described to be an "evening of cocktails, ladies and luscious lesbian loving"
Kit Kat Club
The KitKat Club is a nightclub opened in 1994 and named after the KitKat Club in "Cabaret". It is well known for its extremely sex positive environment where "guests are allowed to engage in sexual intercourse openly at the venue" (Wikipedia). The…
Bar jeder Vernunft
A highbrow comedy/theatre club and beer garden featuring a “mirror tent” stage, with frequent drag acts.