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Connection-SHOP
Connection-SHOP is a sex shop that is also connected to a gay club. It is completely queer-friendly and the shop sells kink-related items, specifically leatherware. In the past, the club aspect has been exclusive to queer men, but recently they've…
Damenklub Violetta
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…
Tags: 1920s, 1930s, club, lesbian, lesbian club, Nazi period, social club, trans, 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…
Dédé Bar
Despite being lauded in the list where I first learned of it as "one of the best-known gay bars in Berlin", the Dédé bar is difficult to unearth any information on. One of the bar's co-owners was a Sturmabteilung Lieutenant, which afforded the bar a…
Die Busche
A LGBTQ+ nightclub in Berlin with a resident DJ. It opened in 1986 under the German Democatic Republic in East Berlin and was one of the first gay clubs that was approved to open. It opened on Buschalle (where the club gets its name from) in…
Eisenherz Buchladen
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…
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