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Situated near the U-Nollendorfplatz station in Schöneberg, Café Berio was founded in 1951 as an Italian ice cream café by Frederico Berio. It originally started as just an ice cream café, but has evolved to be a café that also serves cakes and…

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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…

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Offers various social services for women such as self improvement courses, legal and psychological help, and a library.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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The oldest lesbian café in the city. At one point it featured an all-male cabaret, for lesbians only. Its atmosphere was "easygoing [and] somewhat faded", with blacked-out picture windows (to hide the interior from prying eyes) and large…

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Damenklub Violetta was one of the most popular lesbian clubs in Weimar era Germany. It was well known for their correspondence club that allowed women to get in contact with each other. It was one of if not the first club to hold a night welcoming…

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Located at Marburger Straße 13, Café Domino was a lesbian pick-up bar in West Berlin that lasted between the years of 1921 and 1930. South of the memorial church, they are known for their speciality aphrodisiac drink, “Cherry Cobbler.” The clientele…

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