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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…
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…
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…
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…