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Berlin's Queer & Trans History in Augmented Reality
Joined 2023
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!
Itinerary
This itinerary can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Send me a message with your requests!
Meeting Point
At your hotel or in front of the palace
Meeting point
At your hotel or in front of the palace
Magnus-Hirschfeld-Ufer
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs as “the world’s first gay man” and the world’s first queer identities
Magnus Hirschfeld and the world’s first organization for LGBTQIA+ rights
Feminism, Johanna Elberskirchen and Helene Stöcker
The fight against §175: Berlin’s third gender, petitions and the film “Different from the Others”
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
Attacks on Hirschfeld
Hirschfeld’s partners
The Institute for Sexual Science
The destruction of the Institute by the Nazis
Hirschfeld’s death, his legacy and post-colonial critique
Memorial to the Persecuted Queers under National Socialism
Adolf Brand and right-wing gays
Ernst Röhm, gay Nazis and Hitler’s attitude to homosexuality
The Night of the Long Knives
Queer and trans people in the concentration camps
Schwerinstraße
Lesbian life in Berlin in the 1920s
The lesbian club Toppkeller
The Lavender Song
Claire Waldoff
Josephine Baker, bisexuality and racism
Nollendorfstraße
The homosexual department of the Berlin police force
Male gay life in Berlin in the 1920s
Christopher Isherwood
From Isherwood’s novels to the cabaret musical
Isherwood’s escape with Heinz Neddermeyer
Speisekammer im Eldorado
The Eldorado, drag and the so-called “Transvestites”
Nazi Ernst Röhm at the Eldorado
Eisenherz Bookstore
The Homosexual Aktion West-Berlin and the SchwuZ club
Trans woman Charlotte von Mahlsdorf and queer movements in East Berlin
International Stele Always Remember
The SchwuZ club and the AIDS crisis
The media and Rita Süssmuth versus Peter Gauweiler
AIDS in the GDR
HIV & AIDS today
Connection Club
Chez Romy Haag: The trans community & the nightclub revolution
Metropol: The gay community & the techno precursor
Wittenbergplatz
Folsom Europe: Europe’s biggest fetish festival
SchwuZ club today
SO36 club: Black Gay Night, Gayhane, “Trümmertunten” and Kiezbingo
Kreuzberg Pride & Dyke* March
Berghain
Bunker & early Snax parties
Ostgut
Elon Musk
The no-photo policy of Berlin clubs
Sexism and Heteronormativity
Sexuality at Berghain
Judith Butler, Gender Performance and Gender Fucking
Queer Critique
The Lab.Oratory, Snax Parties today and Lady Gaga
Ending point
At your hotel or at Wittenbergplatz
Ending Point
At your hotel or at Wittenbergplatz
Want to personalize this tour?
This tour can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Click below to send me a message with your requests.
Inclusions & Exclusions
guide fee
ticket for public transport
Tour Important Information
Pick-up only for hotels within the "Ring" (within the S-Train track circling the city center). We can start the tour any time between 9 am and 6 pm.
Important message from the supplier
My availability varies weekly, and I require a request first, which I can then confirm or decline (offering an alternative).
Cancellation Policy
- Free cancellation - 8 days prior to meeting time
- 50% Refund - 3 to 7 days prior to meeting time
- No Refund - Within 2 day(s) prior to meeting time
Joined 2023
About Tour Guide Jeff M.
I am a social scientist, speaker, tour guide, sex educator, and freelance writer born in Luxembourg-City, Luxembourg and living in Berlin, Germany.
I studied sociology and gender studies (B.A.) in Trier and Göttingen (Germany). I focussed my studies mainly on human sexualities, queer studies, and human-animal relations. In Berlin, I finished a training to become a certified sex educator in 2023.
I have more than ten years of experience as a freelance writer and public speaker. I have been speaking publicly and writing for magazines such as SIEGESSÄULE (Berlin’s highest-circulating city magazine, as well as Europe’s most-read LGBTIQ magazine) or the Lëtzebuerger Journal, as well as for non-profits such as the German AIDS Service Organization (Deutsche Aidshilfe).
I have been volunteering and working for several NGOs, including the German AIDS Service Organization (Deutsche Aidshilfe), Luxembourg’s HIV-Berodung and Stop AIDS Now / ACCESS.
Since 2018, I have been successfully hosting my critically acclaimed guided tour Berlin’s History of Sex, supported by the Federal Foundation Magnus Hirschfeld.
I have been working with educational institutions like Northwestern University (Illinois, USA) or the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. I am also currently studying gender studies (M.A.) at the Humboldt University in Berlin, focussing my studies on human sexualities.
