Berlin, Germany
Events
Christopher Street Day and Berlin Pride Week
May 28 - Jun 20, 2010
CSD is the highlight of Berlin's three week-long gay pride festivities, taking place on June 19, 2010. 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.
German Fetish Ball Weekend
Late May, 2010 (TBA)
An 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
Early Jun, 2010 (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.
Lesbian and Gay City Festival
Jun 12 - Jun 13, 2010
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.
Come Together Cup
Mid-Jun, 2010
This gay and lesbian football (soccer) tournament takes place in three different German cities (Berlin, Cologne, Essen), but the Berlin one will likely be the biggest. Best of all, entrance is free to this full day event!
XPOSED International Queer Short Film Festival Berlin
Late Jun, 2010 (TBA)
2010 will be the 5th 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 and in 2009 it was queer Turkish films on the menu.
LaD.I.Y.fest Berlin
Mid-Jul, 2010 (TBA)
"LaD.I.Y.fest is a non-profit volunteer run D.I.Y. festival of music, art, performance and workshops organized and orchestrated by feminist activists, artists and musicians of various genders. In Berlin we take on the idea of the first Ladyfests of 'empowering the presence of women in the arts' and try to take it further, outside the binary gender system."
Parkfest
Mid-Aug, 2010 (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.
F**k parade
Late Aug, 2010 (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...)
Wigstöckel
Early Oct, 2010 (TBA)
Berlin's annual three-day transgender festival with panel discussions, cultural events and parties. 2009 is the 14th annual edition of the fest.
Goldelsen Cup
Mid-Nov, 2010 (TBA)
The Goldelsen Cup is named for the bronze sculpture of victory that overlooks Berlin. An international volleyball competition, Goldelsen is co-organized with Seitenwechsel, the local lesbian sporting club, which means there's a strong female presence here.
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