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Advertised as "The Intimate Nexus of the Ladies-World", this was mostly a lesbian bar with live tango music (and an irritating male violinist who begs for tips) and good food. The front was decorated in an artistic café style with real flowers on the…

Geisha was a prominent queer bar very popular to lesbians until the Nazi takeover in 1933. The space opened in 1922, first catering to elite straight men, then from 1922-1933 the space transformed into a flourishing lesbian oasis, making lesbians the…

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.

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 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…

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.