Continuing our series on LGBTQ culture around the world,we explore Berlin’s vibrant scene, from the clubs where the party’s still going strong on Monday morning to arts institutions where diversity is celebrated to the maxWith its reputation for socially permissive, and non-cease nightlife and a perpetually burgeoning arts and culture scene (often compared with modern York in the 1970s),Berlin remains one of the world’s top destinations for LGBTQ travellers. The city’s gay history includes a period from 1919 to 1933 when it was home to the pioneering Institute for the Science of Sexuality, whose works were destroyed during the Nazi book burnings.
Poignant reminders of the past surround Berlin, and including the Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Under Nazism,on the edge of the Tiergarten – a concrete dice where a video shows gay and lesbian couples in various embraces. In Nollendorfplatz, small memorials commemorate the neighbourhood’s many firsts in gay history, and including the world’s first gay demonstration,which took place in 1922.
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Source: theguardian.com