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Auluka-Lounge / Geisha Bar
Geisha was a prominent queer bar very popular to lesbians until the Nazi takeover in 1933. The space opened in 1922, first catering to elite straight men, then from 1922-1933 the space transformed into a flourishing lesbian oasis, making lesbians the…
Tags: 1920s, 1930s, bar, crossdressing, lesbian, lesbian bar, orientalism, prostitution, tourism, Weimar
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…
Tags: 1920s, 1930s, bar, club, lesbian, lesbian bar, social club, Weimar
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…
Tags: 1920s, 1930s, bar, crossdressing, gay bar, lesbian bar, Weimar
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…
Kabarett Die Spinne
Cabaret with a “wacky” and exclusive atmosphere; a spider in a web was painted on the wall of the lounge. It catered to the petit-bourgeois classes, older gay men, “aunties”, transvestites and drag queens.
Kaiserpassage
The Kaisergalerie was a passageway and building complex was full of many economic attractions, such as stores, performance venues and hotels, etc. It was also a hot spot for people hoping to solicit prostitution, as there were a wealth of sex workers…
Tags: 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, prostitution, Weimar
Verona Lounge
Verona Lounge had a pleasant, classy environment that would turn to more erotic later in the evening. That was a place for "serious" lesbians as well as voyeuristic male artists and interested straight women. "Gougnettes," aka, women who dressed…