First gay rights movement Berlins wild 1920s queer history
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- Berlin was one of the world's most important centers for early LGBTQ+ research, activism and community building.
- In the 1920s, during the era known as the Weimar Republic in Germany, Berlin became a haven for queer nightlife.
- One of the most famous queer nightclubs of Weimar-era Berlin was Eldorado.
- On May 6, 1933, Magnus Hirschfeld's institute was raided and destroyed; its library and research archives were looted, and many of the books and documents were burned in Berlin's notorious Nazi book burning.
Today, Berlin is largely seen as one of the worlds most queerfriendly cities and that was also the case roughly a century ago, before the National Socialists took power in the early 1930s.In th [+5124 chars]
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