Why choose this Berlin tour ?

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!

– Go Back to Where It All Began
– Reconnect With Your History
– Discover “the World’s First Gay Man”
– Explore the World’s First Trans Identities & Gender Affirmation Surgeries
– Learn About the Science Behind Intersex & Non-Binary
– Understand the Impact of 1920s Berlin’s Lesbian Life on the World
– Find Out What Happened in Nazi Germany
– Grasp the Trauma of the AIDS Crisis
– Discover How Berlin’s LGBTQIA+ Community Shaped the City’s World-Renowned Nightlife
– Join a Queer Activist, Certified Social Scientist, and Sex Educator Tour Guide
– Enjoy a Fun Day with Augmented Reality



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What makes Berlin’s Queer & Trans History – Guided Augmented Reality Tour a unique experience ?

The “world’s first gay man” and first queer identities.

1. Adolf Brand and right-wing gays
2. Ernst Röhm, gay Nazis and Hitler’s attitude to homosexuality
3. The Night of the Long Knives
4. Queer and trans people in the concentration camps

1. Lesbian life in Berlin in the 1920s
2. The lesbian club Toppkeller
3. The Lavender Song
4. Claire Waldoff
5. Josephine Baker, bisexuality and racism

1. The homosexual department of the Berlin police force
2. Male gay life in Berlin in the 1920s
3. Christopher Isherwood
4. From Isherwood’s novels to the cabaret musical
5. Isherwood’s escape with Heinz Neddermeyer

1. Magnus Hirschfeld and the world’s first organization for LGBTQIA+ rights
2. Feminism, Johanna Elberskirchen and Helene Stöcker
3. The fight against §175: Berlin’s third gender, petitions and the film “Different from the Others”
4. 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
5. Attacks on Hirschfeld
6. Hirschfeld’s partners
7. The Institute for Sexual Science
8. The destruction of the Institute by the Nazis
9. Hirschfeld’s death, his legacy and post-colonial critique

1. The Eldorado, drag and the so-called “Transvestites”
2. Nazi Ernst Röhm at the Eldorado

1. The Homosexual Aktion West-Berlin and the SchwuZ club
2. Trans woman Charlotte von Mahlsdorf and queer movements in East Berlin

1. The trans community in West Berlin
2. Chez Romy Haag & the nightclub revolution

Our second last stop will bring us to the re-emergence of the queer rights movement after the Nazi era, as well as about the AIDS crisis in a divided Berlin. We’ll also learn about Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a famous trans* woman in the GDR.

1. Metropol, the gay community, and the techno precursor
2. Folsom Europe: Europe’s biggest fetish festival
3. SO36 club: Black Gay Night, Gayhane, “Trümmertunten” and Kiezbingo
4. Kreuzberg Pride & Dyke* March
5. Berghain & Lab.Oratory

Tour Description & Additional Info:

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels


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  • This Tour is Provided by BerlinGuide.de.
  • Tour Timezone & Starts at Europe/Berlin.
  • Mobile or paper ticket accepted.
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  • This Tour is Rated 5 Stars based on 17 valid reviews on VIATOR.
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  • Maximum 10 Travelers is accepted for booking.