4 hours
English
Free Cancellation
Delve into queer and trans history in Berlin on this walking tour, and learn where the LGBTQIA+ emancipation movement began. The origins of the world’s modern LGBTQIA+ identity movement lie in Berlin. Trace our city’s queer and trans history with your expert guide, to better understand where we’re coming from. Your walking tour is enhanced by a selection of augmented reality segments, using the camera on your guide’s iPad. Demonstrate alongside queer activists of times gone by, or see how the building in front of you looked 100 years ago!
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs as “the world’s first gay man” and the world’s first queer identities
Adolf Brand and right-wing gaysErnst Röhm, gay Nazis and Hitler's attitude to homosexualityThe Night of the Long KnivesQueer and trans people in the concentration camps
Lesbian life in Berlin in the 1920sThe lesbian club ToppkellerThe Lavender SongClaire WaldoffJosephine Baker, bisexuality and racism
The homosexual department of the Berlin police forceMale gay life in Berlin in the 1920sChristopher IsherwoodFrom Isherwood's novels to the cabaret musicalIsherwood's escape with Heinz Neddermeyer
Magnus Hirschfeld and the world's first organization for LGBTQIA+ rightsFeminism, Johanna Elberskirchen and Helene StöckerThe fight against §175: Berlin's third gender, petitions and the film "Different from the Others"Hirschfeld's theory of sexual intermediaries IntersexualityEarly trans identities & so-called "transvestite certificates"Dora Richter, Lili Elbe, Karl M. Baer and the world's first gender affirmation surgeriesAttacks on HirschfeldHirschfeld's partnersThe Institute for Sexual ScienceThe destruction of the Institute by the NazisHirschfeld's death, his legacy and post-colonial critique
The Eldorado, drag and the so-called "Transvestites"Nazi Ernst Röhm at the Eldorado
The Homosexual Aktion West-Berlin, the SchwuZ club, and Siegessäule MagazineTrans woman Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, Sonntags-Club, and queer movements in East Berlin
The trans community in West BerlinChez Romy Haag & the nightclub revolution
The SchwuZ club and the AIDS crisisThe media and Rita Süssmuth versus Peter GauweilerAIDS in the GDRHIV & AIDS today
Metropol: The gay community & the techno precursorFolsom Europe: Europe's biggest fetish festivalSchwuZ club todaySO36 club: Black Gay Night, Gayhane, "Trümmertunten" and KiezbingoKreuzberg Pride & Dyke* MarchBerghain Bunker & early Snax partiesOstgutElon MuskThe no-photo policy of Berlin clubsSexism and HeteronormativitySexuality at BerghainJudith Butler, Gender Performance and Gender F*ckingQueer CritiqueThe Lab.Oratory, Snax Parties today and Lady Gaga
At Nollendorfplatz in front of the Alnatura Super Natur Markt
Duration
4 hours
Start Times
11:00, 16:00
Address
Else-Lasker-Schüler-Straße 18, 10783 Berlin, Germany
English
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