Berlin
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Marc Martin : HANDSOME LIAR (NSFW)
Four years we came across a remarkable queer French artist called Marc Martin whose Exhibition ‘Public Toilets, Private Affairs’ was opening at Berlin’s LGBT Schwules Museum. He was bringing the topic of ‘cottaging ” right out into the open with this exhibition book that was almost like a celebration of this illicit activity. He had…
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Berliner queer artist Stefan Merkt has Tom of Finland all licked
The very prolific queer Berlin-based artist Stefan Merkt is back with a new Exhibit at Romeo und Romeo which focuses on his favorite inspiration Tom of Finland. But look closely at the pictures we have previewed from the Show as there is not a drop of paint on any of them. Since the 1980’s…
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Leo Adef’s SAFE : a stunning short doc on Berlin’s queer Ballroom scene
As a queer journalist sometimes you kick yourself when quite by chance you discover something truly wonderful that you really should have known about and celebrated before. In this case it’s not a ‘thing but a person. Leo Adef is an Argentinean filmmaker and photographer based in Barcelona. On a visit to Berlin to…
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Intimacy : New Queer Art from Berlin and Beyond
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…
