Discover where it all began: The world’s modern LGBTQIA+ emancipation movement started in Berlin more than 100 years ago! Explore it all in this one-of-a-kind guided city tour with Augmented Reality elements!
At your hotel or in front of the palace
At your hotel or in front of the palace
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs as “the world’s first gay man” and the world’s first queer identities
Magnus Hirschfeld and the world’s first organization for LGBTQIA+ rights
Feminism, Johanna Elberskirchen and Helene Stöcker
The fight against §175: Berlin’s third gender, petitions and the film “Different from the Others”
Hirschfeld’s theory of sexual intermediaries
Intersexuality
Early trans identities & so-called “transvestite certificates”
Dora Richter, Lili Elbe, Karl M. Baer and the world’s first gender affirmation surgeries
Attacks on Hirschfeld
Hirschfeld’s partners
The Institute for Sexual Science
The destruction of the Institute by the Nazis
Hirschfeld’s death, his legacy and post-colonial critique
Adolf Brand and right-wing gays
Ernst Röhm, gay Nazis and Hitler’s attitude to homosexuality
The Night of the Long Knives
Queer and trans people in the concentration camps
Lesbian life in Berlin in the 1920s
The lesbian club Toppkeller
The Lavender Song
Claire Waldoff
Josephine Baker, bisexuality and racism
The homosexual department of the Berlin police force
Male gay life in Berlin in the 1920s
Christopher Isherwood
From Isherwood’s novels to the cabaret musical
Isherwood’s escape with Heinz Neddermeyer
The Eldorado, drag and the so-called “Transvestites”
Nazi Ernst Röhm at the Eldorado
The Homosexual Aktion West-Berlin and the SchwuZ club
Trans woman Charlotte von Mahlsdorf and queer movements in East Berlin
The SchwuZ club and the AIDS crisis
The media and Rita Süssmuth versus Peter Gauweiler
AIDS in the GDR
HIV & AIDS today
Chez Romy Haag: The trans community & the nightclub revolution
Metropol: The gay community & the techno precursor
Folsom Europe: Europe’s biggest fetish festival
SchwuZ club today
SO36 club: Black Gay Night, Gayhane, “Trümmertunten” and Kiezbingo
Kreuzberg Pride & Dyke* March
Berghain
Bunker & early Snax parties
Ostgut
Elon Musk
The no-photo policy of Berlin clubs
Sexism and Heteronormativity
Sexuality at Berghain
Judith Butler, Gender Performance and Gender Fucking
Queer Critique
The Lab.Oratory, Snax Parties today and Lady Gaga
At your hotel or at Wittenbergplatz
At your hotel or at Wittenbergplatz
guide fee
ticket for public transport
My availability varies weekly, and I require a request first, which I can then confirm or decline (offering an alternative).
Pick-up only for hotels within the "Ring" (within the S-Train track circling the city center). We can start the tour any time between 9 am and 6 pm.