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Gayness is so well accepted in every aspect of society that you'll find sprinkles of it everywhere. Schoneberg is the heart of the gay community and has been since the 1920s when it became the first ever gay village in the world. Although it was all heavily repressed during the Nazi era, it was reborn after the Berlin Wall was erected in the 1960s and has continued to thrive ever since. Germany Berlin, Lesbisch-schwules Stadtfest Nollendorfplatz, 20-21 july 2019. Alternative gay scenes have started to spring up in the East over the past 20 years since the Wall came down, particularly in Kreuzberg, Neukölln and Friedrichshain. Germany Berlin, Lesbisch-schwules Stadtfest Nollendorfplatz, 20-21 july 2019. Germany Berlin, Lesbisch-schwules Stadtfest Nollendorfplatz, 20-21 july 2019. Germany Berlin, Lesbisch-schwules Stadtfest Nollendorfplatz, 20-21 july 2019. Germany Berlin, Lesbisch-schwules Stadtfest Nollendorfplatz, 20-21 july 2019. 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Juni 2013 - gay and lesbian street festival in Berlin-Schöneberg Berlin-Schöneberg - schwules-lesbisch Stadtfest - 15. bis 16. Juni 2013 - gay and lesbian street festival in Berlin-Schöneberg Today, the city has a huge number of gay clubs and festivals, such as Easter fetish week Easter in Berlin, Berlin Pride (Christopher Street Day). Central Europe's largest gay-lesbian pride event celebrated on the last weekend of June — Folsom Europe in september and Hustlaball. Berlin June 2013 - Tiergarten - Siegessaule. BERGHAIN Berlin World N.1 Techno Club Berghain is a Berlin nightclub, named after its location near the border between Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain. The name "Berghain" is a composite of the names of the two quarters, which flank the building south and north: Kreuzberg (former West Berlin) and Friedrichshain (former East Berlin); the literal meaning of the German word "Berghain" is "mountain grove". "Snax" is still held once a year on Holy Saturday in the main room (Berghain), while only the Panorama Bar is open for a mixed crowd. Philip Sherburne described it in 2007 as "quite possibly the current world capital of techno, much as E-Werk or Tresor were in their respective heydays." The building is distinguished by its enormous dimensions, which accommodate an 18 meter high dance floor and space for 1500 guests, and also its minimalist interior design, dominated by steel and concrete. The club contains a "cavernous" main room, as well as a smaller upstairs space called the Panorama Bar, which is decorated by enormous Wolfgang Tillmans photographs and features tall windows with a view of East Berlin. Berghain has a strong reputation for decadence and hedonism; a New Zealand Herald article describes "people openly indulging in sexual acts" inside the club, and the building contains several dark rooms specifically set aside for that purpose. The door policy is selective and mostly random, but there are no VIP entrance or VIP areas. The guestlist is restricted to a few guests for each dj and maximally two guests for each staff member. The music is mostly techno, tech house, detroit techno, and minimal techno. Nick Höppner, a resident DJ who manages the club's record label, states that "The simple division is that Panorama Bar more or less caters to house... and Berghain is really the platform for purist techno." As a special feature, no mirrors or reflecting surfaces can be found anywhere in the club. Like many Berlin clubs, Berghain hosts extremely long events; a Philip Sherburne column in Pitchfork Media describes a Carl Craig set that began at 3:00 Sunday afternoon and continued until the club's ending time. DJ Jesse Rose has said that "Entering Panorama Bar is like going back in time to an age when people went out to really party." The club is located in a former power plant (rented from the energy company Vattenfall) in Friedrichshain, near the Berlin Ostbahnhof railway station. Berghain is the reincarnation of the "legendary" club Ostgut (1998–2003). This club itself emerged out of a men only fetish club night, called "Snax", which was held in different locations before it found its permanent home at the "Ostgut" as a part of a new concept. Quickly the "Ostgut" developed into a focal point of the Berlin techno-subculture since the venue was now open for all genders on regular nights except on those "Snax" club nights six to eight times a year. Berlin has a long history of gay culture and influence on popular entertainment and, according to some authors, in the 1920s the city was the Gay Capital of Europe.