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Apollo City Sauna
Dubbed as "Berlins gröste Gay-Sauna" in its ads, Apollo City Sauna was a sprawling sauna club located near the U-Wittenbergplatz station with several private cabins, saunas, pools, and areas dedicated for cruising. It closed permanently in 2017 due…
Adonis-Lounge
The Adonis-Lounge was a dingy dive bar that was in operation between the years 1924 and 1933. Sailors and queer men often frequented it, women and straight men were never seen at the establishment. It had a very dark atmosphere, so much so that it…
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
Galerie Janssen
Galerie Janssen is a long running media store in Berlin's city West, with a focus on the theme of "man in art". The store was founded by Volker Janssen who opened a publishing company of the same name. In the earlier years the store sold mainly…
Tags: 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s, art, bookstore, erotica, gay male, media store, pornography, West Berlin
Tipi am Kanzleramt
Variety theatre and bar with a permanent circus-style tent and pre-show dining, featuring drag shows and performances of the musical Cabaret. Offers performances of "chanson, cabaret, vaudeville, dance, daring artistry, musical comedy [and] magic."…