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Walk through Schöneberg, the world's first gay ghetto.
Discover the sites that illuminate Berlin's queer trailblazers — from Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, pioneer of the modern Gay Rights Movement, to Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science — while strolling through Schöneberg.
A private tour through Schöneberg tracing real figures of LGBTQ history: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, who distributed essays on male-male love as early as 1862; the Institute for Sexual Science founded by Magnus Hirschfeld; and the liberal, creative atmosphere of interwar Weimar Berlin.
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Meet your guide at a central Berlin location.
Learn about Magnus Hirschfeld's pioneering campaign against the persecution of homosexuals.
Walk through what's considered the world's first gay ghetto.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
Discover the sites that illuminate Berlin's queer trailblazers — from Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, pioneer of the modern Gay Rights Movement, to Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science — while strolling through Schöneberg. A private tour through Schöneberg tracing real figures of LGBTQ history: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, who distributed essays on male-male love as early as 1862; the Institute for Sexual Science founded by Magnus Hirschfeld; and the liberal, creative atmosphere of interwar Weimar Berlin.
Long before Hirschfeld's Institute opened its doors, the groundwork was laid by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, a German lawyer who began publishing essays defending love between men as early as 1862 — decades before the word "homosexual" was even coined. He's now considered one of the first openly gay public figures in modern history, and one of the first to argue, in print, that same-sex attraction wasn't a choice or a crime.
By the 1920s, Schöneberg had earned a reputation — not always a kind one from outsiders — as what's sometimes called the world's first "gay ghetto," a dense cluster of bars, clubs, and apartments where queer Berliners could live comparatively openly during the Weimar Republic's brief, freewheeling years. Magnus Hirschfeld had founded the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee here even earlier, in 1897, widely considered the first homosexual rights organization anywhere in the world — more than two decades before his better-known Institute for Sexual Science opened in 1919.
That openness didn't survive the Nazi rise to power, and Germany's path back to equal legal footing was slow: Paragraph 175, the law the Nazis weaponized against gay men, wasn't fully repealed until 1994. Walking Schöneberg's streets today, with its cafes and rainbow crossings, it's worth remembering how recent — and how hard-won — that history actually is.
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