Gay Berlin Walking Tour

Berlin has been a pioneer of gay and lesbian rights since the late 19th Century, despite the notorious “Section 175” that criminalised male homosexuality for decades even after the end of WWII

• Explore the gay neighbourhood Schöneberg, the home of Marlene Dietrich.
• Visit the Eldorado, one of Berlin’s oldest gay and transvestite bars which was frequented by openly gay Nazi SA leader Ernst Röhm.
• See the memorial to the homosexuals persecuted under the Nazi Regime
• Find out how openly homosexual and transgendered individuals found help from advocates such as Magnus Hirschfeld who ran the Institute for Sexual Science which was shut down in 1933.
• Discover how the Prussian King Frederick the Great and mayor Klaus Wowereit have shaped the history of Berlin.
• Walk through the Tiergarten – the city’s best known gay meeting spot in the shadow of the Berlin Wall.

The tour will finish at the Gay Museum in the vibrant area of Kreuzberg.