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Bar jeder Vernunft
A highbrow comedy/theatre club and beer garden featuring a “mirror tent” stage, with frequent drag acts.
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.
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…
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…
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…
SO36
SO36 is a famous club in Berlin named after the address where it is located. This club was considered the heart of the punk scene for a time
and it still hosts a variety of events and concerts. While not a strictly gay institution has SO36 has…
and it still hosts a variety of events and concerts. While not a strictly gay institution has SO36 has…