Berlin’s Roaring Twenties
A city with legendary gay parties, dozens of gay bars, multiple queer neighborhoods, significant LGBTQ history, and an international reputation as an LGBTQ-friendly bastion, Berlin is Germany’s most vibrant and diverse city.
In particular, queer visitors flock to Schöneberg—an area of the capital city that, in the 1920s, became the world’s first gay village—to visit the bars like Blond, Prinzknecht, and Hafen, cruise the boys, nosh at gay cafés, shop at the leather and latex stores, or take a guided tour.
Schöneberg resident and museum scientist Tobias Schwabe (and tour operator, see sidebar) provides, the semi-autobiographical novel he penned here that later inspired the musical .
