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The Scala programme was all about artistic excellence, with one performance following the next. The famous “Scala Girls” – the house’s revue dancers – shared the stage with comedians, acrobats and actors who displayed their talents in elaborately…

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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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"This purpose of this project is to commemorate and honor lost womyn's space--both ancient and modern. This can mean anything from lost women's colleges and schools, to lesbian bars and clubs. And everything sacred and profane in between."

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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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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…

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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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Eldorado was one of THE bars/nightclubs in Weimar Germany for the LGBTQIA+ scene.

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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 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…

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Cabaret with a “wacky” and exclusive atmosphere; a spider in a web was painted on the wall of the lounge. It catered to the petit-bourgeois classes, older gay men, “aunties”, transvestites and drag queens.

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