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Berlin, Germany
Events
Verzaubert International Queer Film Festival (Berlin)
Apr 1 - Apr 7, 2009
Germany’s traveling LGBT film festival. The films are shown in four German cities: Berlin, Munich, Cologne and Frankfurt, with the festival lasting for eight days in each city! Many screenings in English or just for us girls.
German Fetish Ball Weekend
Mid-May, 2009 (TBA)
Annual pansexual weekend of kinky fetish partying second only, perhaps, to London's Rubber Ball. It's a full weekend with a fetish fair, a number of fetish parties and the grand finale Fetish Ball.
Entzaubert
Mid-May, 2009 (TBA)
Even though Berlin already has a queer film festival, a lesbian film festival, a queer short film festival and a porn/erotic film festival, in 2008 the Entzaubert film festival was introduced. This calls itself an "uncommercial" film festival, going for the underground feel. We'll have to wait and see if it comes back again in 2009.
Drag Festival Berlin
Early June, 2009 (TBA)
This looks like it will be an amazing event! Drag kings from across Europe will converge in Berlin for four days of parties, performance, workshops and panels... ending with a huge public photo shoot of all the glamorous drag kings . 2008 was the first edition of this festival and we'll have to see if it will be back in 2009.
Christopher Street Day and Berlin Pride Week
Mid-Late Jun, 2009 (TBA)
CSD on June 28th is the highlight of Berlin's 2 week-long gay pride festivities. This huge parade attracts about 450,000 people each year! For tourists, organizers work with the city to create a free Pride Berlin Card, which offers rebates on pride events and attractions for out-of-towners.
Lesbian and Gay City Festival
Mid-Late Jun, 2009 (TBA)
This annual weekend street fair, held in the traditional gay stomping ground around Nollendorfplatz in Schöneberg, is the beginning of the week-long gay pride festival. With a massive street party that welcomes upwards of 350,000 people, this is one of the biggest homo parties in Europe! There are a number of lesbian events, but one fun mixed party is the annual swing dance at the Berlin zoo.
Queer and Rebel Week
Late Jun, 2009 (TBA)
Presented by a Berlin queer squat, this is a full week of performance, meals, discussion, debate and more... all DIY and all outside of the mainstream.
XPOSED International Queer Short Film Festival Berlin
Late Jun, 2009 (TB)
2009 will be the 4th edition of this queer short film fest that was actually launched to highlight Australian LGBT short film fests. Yes, a Berlin fest created to highlight Australian films. In 2007 they expanded to include Canadian flicks, and in 2008, Eastern Asian works were also be on the menu.
F**k parade
Early Aug, 2009 (TBA)
Once again, you’ve gotta love the Berliners. Tired of the commercialization of the Love Parade (a huge, annual one-day dance party event that attracted upwards of a million people), a counter-culture group decided to start the F**k parade. This is now its own annual event taking place in August, that is also a huge party (though not on the scale of the Love parade... which sadly no longer exists in Berlin because they can't get a street permit. How ironic that this one continues...)
Parkfest
Mid-Aug, 2009 (TBA)
A one-day LGBT outdoor park party with DJs, dancing, food and performance. At the end of the evening the party moves over to an indoor venue, where the debauchery continues.
Berlin Lesbian Film Festival
Oct, 2009 (TBA)
Even though there is a general LGBT film festival in Berlin each year (the Verzaubert), a group of women dedicated to promoting lesbian cinema have also organized this exceptional event for several years. However, they've taken some time off and the festival intends to return in 2009.
Wigstöckel
Early Oct, 2009 (TBA)
Berlin's annual three-day transgender festival with panel discussions, cultural events and parties. 2009 is the 14th annual edition of the fest.
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