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LGBTQ Culture In Berlin
Berlin was the capital city of the German Empire from 1871 to 1945, its eastern part the ''de facto'' capital of East Germany from 1949 to 1990, and has been the capital of the unified Federal Republic of Germany since June, 1991. The city has an active LGBTQ community with a long history. Berlin has many LGBTIQ+ friendly districts, though the borough of Schöneberg is widely viewed both locally and by visitors as Berlin's gayborhood. Particularly the boroughs North-West near Nollendorfplatz identifies as Berlin's "Regenbogenkiez" (Rainbow District), with a certain concentration of gay bars near and along Motzstraße and Fuggerstraße. Many of the decisive events of what has become known as Germany's second LGBT movement ( the first beginning roughly in the 1860s and ending abruptly in 1933) take place in the West Berlin boroughs of Charlottenburg, Schöneberg, and Kreuzberg beginning in 1971 with the formation of the (HAW). Whereas in East Berlin the district of Prenzlauer ...
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Berlin Pride
The Berlin Pride Celebration, also known as Christopher Street Day Berlin, or CSD Berlin, is a pride parade and festival held in the second half of July each year in Berlin, Germany to celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) people and their allies. Since 1979, the event has been held each year. Berlin Pride is one of the largest gay and lesbian organized events in Germany and one of the biggest in Europe. Its aim is to demonstrate for equal rights and equal treatment for LGBT people, as well as celebrate the pride in Gay and Lesbian Culture. History The CSD is held in memory of the Stonewall Riots, the first big uprising of LGBTQ people against police assaults on June 27, 1969. These took place in Christopher Street, in the neighborhood of Greenwich Village in New York City, New York. The first CSD in Berlin took place on June 30, 1979, and since then has taken place every year. In 2012, around 700,000 people attended the CSD Parade, and 500,00 ...
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Elsa Asenijeff
Elsa Asenijeff (Elsa Maria Packeny 3 January 1867 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary – 5 April 1941 in Braunsdorf), was an Austrian writer and partner of Max Klinger. Life Elsa Maria Packeny came from the Viennese bourgeoisie. Her father Karl Packeny was director of the Austrian Southern Railway. Until 1887 she attended the Vienna Teacher Training Center. After she had refused some marriage proposals, her parents forced her to marry. In 1890 she married the eleven-years-older Bulgarian engineer and diplomat Ivan Johann Nestoroff and went with him to Sofia, Bulgaria. The marriage was not happy. She felt at the mercy of her husband, a theme that influenced her literary works in many ways. In 1896 she wrote a narrative volume ''Is That Love?'' using the pseudonym Elsa Asenijeff, which she had chosen in memory of her deceased firstborn son Asen. In 1896, she divorced Nestoroff and the Bulgarian state allowed her to use Asenijeff as her official name. In 1897 she went to Leipzig, Ge ...
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Workers' Movement
The labour movement is the collective organisation of Working class, working people to further their shared political and economic interests. It consists of the trade union or labour union movement, as well as political parties of labour. It can be considered an instance of class conflict. * In trade union, trade unions, workers campaign for higher wages, better working conditions and fair treatment from their employers, and through the implementation of Labour law, labour laws, from their governments. They do this through collective bargaining, Sectoral collective bargaining, sectoral bargaining, and when needed, strike action. In some countries, co-determination gives representatives of workers seats on the board of directors of their employers. * political party, Political parties representing the interests of workers campaign for Labor rights, labour rights, Social welfare, social security and the welfare state. They are usually called a Labour Party (other), labou ...
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The Great Social Evil, Punch 1857
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'' ...
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Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (28 August 1825 – 14 July 1895) was a German lawyer, jurist, journalist, and writer. He is today regarded as a pioneer of sexology and the modern LGBT rights movement, gay rights movement. Ulrichs has been described as the "first gay man in world history". Early life Ulrichs was born in the East Frisian village of Westerfeld, incorporated today within Aurich, which at the time was in the Kingdom of Hanover. His father was an architect who died when Ulrichs was only ten years old. After that he was brought up in Burgdorf, Hanover, Burgdorf by his mother's family of Lutheran pastors. Ulrichs recalled that as a youngster he felt different from other boys and was attracted by the bright colors of military uniforms and women's clothing. In 1839, at the age of fourteen, he experienced his first sexual encounter with his riding instructor. He graduated in law and theology from Göttingen University in 1846. From 1846 to 1848, he studied history at Humboldt Un ...
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Institut Für Sexualwissenschaft
The (Institute for Sexual Science) was an early private sexology research institute in Germany from 1919 to 1933. The name is variously translated as Institute for Sexual Research, Institute of Sexology, Institute for Sexology, or Institute for the Science of Sexuality. The Institute was a non-profit foundation situated in Tiergarten, Berlin. It was the first sexology research center in the world. The Institute was headed by Magnus Hirschfeld, who since 1897 had run the world's first homosexual organization (Scientific-Humanitarian Committee), which campaigned on progressive and rational grounds for LGBT rights and tolerance at the start of the first homosexual movement that would flourish in interwar Weimar culture. The Committee published the long-running journal . Hirschfeld built a unique library at the institute on gender, same-sex love and eroticism. The institute pioneered research and treatment for various matters regarding gender and sexuality, including gay, tra ...
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Scientific-Humanitarian Committee
The Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (, WhK) was founded by Magnus Hirschfeld in Berlin in May 1897, to campaign for social recognition of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, and against their legal persecution. It was the first LGBT rights organization in history. The motto of the organization was "''Per scientiam ad justitiam''" ("through science to justice"), and the committee included representatives from various professions. The committee's membership peaked at about 700 people. In 1929, Kurt Hiller took over as chairman of the group from Hirschfeld. At its peak, the WhK had branches in approximately 25 cities in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. History The WhK was founded in Berlin-Charlottenburg, a locality of Berlin, on 14 or 15 May 1897 (about four days before Oscar Wilde's release from prison) by Magnus Hirschfeld, a physician, sexologist and outspoken advocate for gender and sexual minorities. Original members of the WhK included Hirschfel ...
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Magnus Hirschfeld
Magnus Hirschfeld (14 May 1868 – 14 May 1935) was a German physician, Sexology, sexologist and LGBTQ advocate, whose German citizenship was later revoked by the Nazi government.David A. Gerstner, ''Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture'' (2006, ), page 374 Hirschfeld was educated in philosophy, philology and medicine. An outspoken advocate for sexual minority, sexual minorities, Hirschfeld founded the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee and World League for Sexual Reform. He based his practice in Charlottenburg, Berlin-Charlottenburg during the 1920s Berlin, Weimar period. Performance Studies and Rhetoric Professor Dustin Goltz characterized the committee as having carried out "the first advocacy for LGBT movements, homosexual and transgender rights".Goltz, Dustin (2008). "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Movements", In Lind, Amy; Brzuzy, Stephanie (eds.). ''Battleground: Women, Gender, and Sexuality: Volume 2'', pp. 291 ff. Greenwood Publishing Group, ...
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Der Eigene
''Der Eigene'' (, ) was the first Homosexuality, gay journal in the world, published from 1896 to 1932 by Adolf Brand in Berlin. Brand contributed many poems and articles; other contributors included writers Benedict Friedlaender, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Erich Mühsam, Kurt Hiller, Ernst Burchard, John Henry Mackay, Theodor Lessing, Klaus Mann, and Thomas Mann, as well as artists Wilhelm von Gloeden, Fidus, and Sascha Schneider. The journal may have had an average of around 1500 subscribers per issue during its run, but the exact numbers are uncertain. __NOTOC__ History of the journal The title of the journal, ''Der Eigene'' ''(''no exact English equivalent but has been translated as ''The Self-Possessed)'', refers to the classic anarchist work ''The Ego and Its Own, Der Einzige und sein Eigentum'' (1844) by Max Stirner. Early issues reflected the philosophy of Stirner, as well as other views on the politics of anarchism. By the second year of its focus, it settled into a focus on homo ...
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Gay Magazine
The following is a list of periodicals (printed magazines, journals and newspapers) aimed at the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) demographic by country. Australia The most comprehensive holdings of LGBT periodicals is found at the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives; their holdings are listed iALGA Periodicals Collection Catalogue *''Archer'' * *''Dandy Magazine'', published in Sydney * * * *'' Pink Advocate.'' * * Fortnightly since 2000 *, also , Victorian sister publication of ''Sydney Star Observer'' *''Star Observer'' *, also * * Free * * * * Monthly since 2021 Out of print * * Austria GAY45- Pan-European magazine dedicated to quality journalism with stations in Vienna and London - in English * * * , national * , national * , launch 1979 Out of print * Bangladesh * Roopbaan (Two issues published in 2014. SEE Internet Archive for archived digital copies and SEE Wikipedia entry "Roopbaan"). Belgium * * * * Brazil *''A Capa'' *'' G Magazin ...
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LGBT Culture
LGBTQ culture is a culture shared by lesbian, Gay men, gay, bisexuality, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals (LGBTQ people). It is sometimes referred to as queer culture (indicating people who are queer), LGBT culture, and LGBTQIA culture, while the term gay culture may be used to mean either "LGBT culture" or homosexual culture specifically. LGBT culture varies widely by geography and the identity of the participants. Elements common to cultures of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and intersex people include: * Works by List of famous gay, lesbian, or bisexual people, famous gay, lesbian, bisexual, and List of transgender people, transgender people, including: ** Contemporary LGBTQ artists and political figures like Larry Kramer, Keith Haring and Rosa von Praunheim. ** Historical figures identified as LGBTQ, although identifying historical figures with modern terms for sexual identity is controversial (see History of sexuality). However, many LGBTQ people feel a ki ...
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