The gays and lesbians in Berlin not just love to party, they also are a visible part of it all and their events have become an essential part of the city's festival calendar.
Most well-known is Berlin's "Gay Pride Week" which takes place in the end of June every summer.

Listed below you can find some of the most important events:

The world of the French artist couple Pierre et Gilles is colourful and kitschy, full of dreamy beauties in tears - somewhere between baroque and limbo. The exibition at C/O Berlin im Postfuhramt is consisting of 80 big works, among them many portraits of celebreties ...
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At the Gay-Lesbian park festival at the open air cinema in Volkspark Friedrichshain, a wide cultural programme, information booths and lots of bands provide a great atmosphere. In 1998 the festival took place for the first time and since than has been established as "Festival for all".
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The gala taking place in Theater des Westens raises funds for the Berlin AIDS-federation. Numerous artists present a spectacular show program from the fields of pop, classical music and comedy. An after show party with DJ, dancing and a midnight buffet makes the evening just perfect.
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200 Years of Gay History - Permanent Exhibition
The permanent exhibition is a insightful documentation of gay history between 1790 and 1990. Many pictures, paintings or sculptures illustrate the struggling development of a gay consciousness and a gay pride.
Every Saturday at 4 p.m. guided tours in English

daily except Tue:
2-6pm, Sat until 7pm

Schwules Museum
Mehringdamm 61, 10961 Berlin

More information is also available in the magazines "Siegessäule" and "Blu" (Also available free of charge in our BERLIN infostores).

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