Gay cruising spot in berlin

Roaming Revenant

In the evening of my very first day in Berlin my legs took me to the Tiergarten park &#; it looked like a looming huge green space on the map in contrast to the hectic city life all around me. I was slowly walking from the east to west, navigating the meandering pathways throughout the park and crossing many bridges over lakes and waterways.

Eventually I got to the clearing where there were gay man sunbathing, some couples & some singles. I coudn’t help but peek, trying to not make it too obvious. Still I pressed on, there were not a lot of people here and it looked just like a normal sunbathing spot albeit with mainly man around, but nothing extra going on that I can see or sense.

I crossed Hofjägerallee, one of the main roads radiating from the Victory Column monument and walked west for a bit. I knew there is a gay cruising area somewhere here near the Bremer Weg lake but I didn&#;t need to check the map to realise where I was. For the trees grew thicker, the people around where all men, walking at a curiously different pace compared

During my time here in Germany, I’d been hearing stories of cruising in the famous Tiergarten, Berlin’s largest inner-city park. In many ways it was their Central Park: hectares of land (85 more hectares than London’s Hyde Park). I’d been speaking to some native Berliners for a few weeks about the potential cruising spot, but they informed me the city had trimmed the brushes in the park so that gay men could no longer cruise there. I found this municipal gesture offensive — to go to such lengths to assault this part of queer culture. I now imagined the park being full of families and heterosexual couples, spraying their normative agenda all over the grass fond foul pesticide. No, I couldn’t accept that this would arise in a city like Berlin. Not Berlin!

There were some outdated posts online about where the cruising occured. According to a forum, you get off at the Tiergarten S-Bahn station and walk down the main street, Straße des 17 Juni, toward the Victory Column. About halfway down you go south into the park to a lake which is the sup

Gay Cruising in Berlin

If you’re looking to play harder then Berlin is the city for you. It’s a hedonistic city with legendary nightlife. London may possess more gay residents and Adj York may have trendier clubs, but Berlin is the queerest of queer cities. You’ll spot the best and most outrageous gay cruising clubs in Berlin - no other city can rival it.

Berlin fostered the first visible gay scene and gay rights movement in the Weimar period (between the wars). There were over a hundred gay bars in Weimar Berlin and a burgeoning gay media. Inevitably, all of that went out the window when you-know-who came to power. After the war, it was almost as if Berlin had gotten a head start. When the gay scene took off again it did so in a big way.

Here’s our guide to the leading gay cruise clubs, gay saunas and gay bars in Berlin. Remember to play safe. Oh, and don’t forget your harness.

Most of the venues we contain listed here are men-only.

KitKatClub

Welcome to the KitKatClub, Mein Herr. All clubs should have a swimming pool with a sex swing perched beside it. That’s just one of the m

Patroc Berlin Gay Guide

Services

AHA-Berlin e.V.

Association centre, community groups and venue for events and parties.

@ Monumentenstraße 13
Berlin

U: Kleistpark, S+U: Yorckstraße

+49 30

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Mann-O-Meter

Monday-Friday  – ;Saturday  – 

Berlin's information and counselling centre for gay men, incl. tests for HIV and other STIs.

@ Bülowstraße
Berlin

U: Nollendorfplatz

+49 30

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Men2Men Massagen

Daily  – 

Team of professional masseurs offering a variety of massages tailored to the needs of men, including relaxing massages, sports massages and tantric massages.

In addition to the studio in Schöneberg, Nollendorfstraße, a second studio has been opened in in Prenzlauer Berg, Milastraße 7.

@ Schöneberg, Eisenacher Straße 11
Berlin

U: Nollendorfplatz

+49 30

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Schwules Museum Berlin

Monday, Wednesday  – ;Thursday  – ;Friday  – ;Saturday  – ;Sunday  – 

Exhibitions, archive