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May 15, 2018 – You might have heard horror stories about online dating-related crimes, or how some governments use hookup apps to entrap LGBTI people, but the recent...

Apr. 24, 2017 – The upcoming Gallery Weekend Berlin will attract collectors and art fags from all over the world, and this year features a true queer highlight...

Mar. 27, 2018 – Start your weekend with some high culture: on Mar. 29 at 20:00 at Village in Schöneberg is the opening of the exhibition Instinct.Berlin #5. This edition of the...

Mar. 20, 2018 – The European ChemSex Forum first took place in London two years ago. This week, the followup is happening in Berlin at the Mercure Hotel in Moabit, with the...

Mar. 14, 2017 – Composer, DJ and critical theorist Terre Thaemlitz has four appearances at this year’s MaerzMusik, the Berlin-based international “festival for time issues”....

Feb. 14 – The Berlinale is coming, which means that every Berliner Fenster segment will be addressing Europe’s biggest publicly accessible red-carpet affair. The best part...

Feb. 08 – I often find myself sharing my love for football as if I were confessing a sin. Loving football (or “soccer”) is considered a “not-so-gay” quirk. My cisgender...

Nov. 29, 2017 – In a country not so far away, people lived in prefabricated buildings, were assigned to jobs regardless of their qualifications and were enrolled in the...

Nov. 9, 2017 – Child care, health care, nursing, assisted living, special needs, emotional labor. Care has been a crucial aspect across human evolution, and more recently has...

Oct. 31, 2017 – Recently I was asked if I would perform a “naked reading”, as in reading text out loud, unclothed, publicly. The conversation was more matter-of-fact...

Oct. 23, 2017 – Is dating as a queer woman in Berlin difficult? According to the protagonist of the new web series Mixed Messages, it certainly seems to be. At the beginning...

Oct. 10, 2017 – Last month in Egypt, after a fan waved a rainbow flag at a concert by Lebanese band Mashrou' Leila (whose singer is gay), the police began making...

Oct. 4, 2017 – Jeffrey Cheung is an artist who has been queering up the skateboarding scene in Oakland, California. As with most sports, sk8 culture has a rather str8...

Sep. 26 – Sunday night, post-war Germany looked in the mirror and it was a shade less liberal. The overtly xenophobic, nationalist, euroskeptic Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)...

Sep. 5, 2017 – Queer African life, past and present, is an ever expanding area of study, but what does the future look like? How will women* have transformed current colonial and...

Aug. 29, 2017 – When I came to Berlin in 2014, I was told I could rely on the then-existing regulations because laws don’t change easily in Germany. Using the examples of...

Aug. 8, 2017 – You won't find them on Bravo, but you might see The Real Housewives of Neukölln onstage in Berlin: Collapsella (Fábio M Silva), Cheryl Offoffoff-Broadway...

Aug 10, 2017 – While some bemoan this month as the Sommerloch, fans of contemporary dance and performance art can only complain about an overabundance of options. Every year,...

Aug. 4, 2017 – Gender-nonconforming writer, educator and performance artist Alok Vaid-Menon has been making waves internationally since their work in DarkMatter, a...

Jul. 25, 2017 – Another year, another Yo! Sissy and another line-up of queer talent I’m deeply unfamiliar with. But enough about me. With the capital’s festival season...