Berlin
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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…
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Leo Adef captures the spirit of queer Berlin’s Ballroom Scene
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…
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Elska Magazine checks out the Boys of Berlin
Even though BERLIN is now considered the queer sex capital of the world , having usurped New York some years ago, It doesn’t mean that all the city’s gay men are obsessed with getting laid 24/7 . Elksa the queer bookzine revisited the City and as usual rounded up a whole cross section of…
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Beauty & Decay : revisiting a life in East Berlin
It’s been exactly 30 years since the Berlin Wall came down so East Berliner ex-punk photographer Sven Marquardt revisits his old haunts with his former muse Dome (Dominique Hollenstein) to do another photo shoot just like the old days. Since he settled in the West, Marquardt has carved out a fierce reputation for manning…
