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Gay & Lesbian Berlin
Berlin's legendary liberalism has spawned one of the world's biggest, most divine
and diverse GLBT playgrounds. Anything goes in 'Homopolis' (and we do mean
anything!), from the highbrow to the hands-on, the bourgeois to the bizarre, the
mainstream to the flamboyant. Except for the most hard-core places, gay spots get
their share of opposite-sex and straight patrons.
Revellers at Christopher Street Day
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Gay in Berlin
Generally speaking, Berlin's gayscape runs the entire spectrum from mellow cafes, campy
bars and cinemas to saunas, cruising areas, clubs with darkrooms and all-out sex venues. In
fact, sex and sexuality are entirely everyday matters to the unshockable city folks and there
are very few, if any, itches that can't be quite openly and legally scratched. As elsewhere, gay
