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Getting to the Bottom of Berlin’s Folsom Fair

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  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




Its time for Berlin’s Annual BOYLESQUE Drag Festival ……

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  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



Jurgen Wittdorf : homoerotic art of the communist era in East Germany

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    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



Leo Adef captures the spirit of queer Berlin’s Ballroom Scene

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  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



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