Since San Francisco’s famous Folsom Street Fair was re-created in Berlin in 2014 as Folsom Europe is has become Europe’s largest gay fetish event. Tens of thousands of guys in leather & fetish gear ‘walk’ the streets in the Berlin-Schöneberg district for a long weekend of fun. freedom and plenty of sleaze. Attracting some 20,000 … Continue reading
The current Exhibition at the re-opened Schwules Museum is Intimacy New Queer Art from Berlin and Beyond. If you are unfamiliar with the space, then you should know that Schwule Museum (SMU) was founded in 1985 to give a home to the history and culture of gay men and their emancipation movement, their history … Continue reading
Berlin the other city that never sleeps – has always been a melting pot and THE homestead for Germany’s cultural vanguard. Boylesque – sometimes lovingly labeled male strip tease with a storyline – has since the late 18th century already thrilled both female and male audiences alike. In the early 1920s, it was accepted as … Continue reading
The German Democratic Republic (communist East Germany) may have beaten West Germany in decriminalizing sexual acts between men by one year in 1968 but they were just as homophobic as the West. Even though they called themselves a socialist “workers’ and peasants’ state”. When the GDR was formed after WW2 it inherited Paragraph … Continue reading
When Leo Adef a queer filmmaker and photographer from Argentina , who is based in Barcelona, visited Berlin it inspired him to make this compelling short film on their Ballroom scene. I’s called Safe because this is what the scene represents to the local BPOC queer community. Adef told Ireland’s Gen Magazine I met … Continue reading