Get the latest gay news from Germany and the German-American community (we're ready to make some too). And of course we plan on having some fun along the way!
Among the more than 1 million refugees calling Germany home are a not so small number of LGBT individuals who have fled to their country to avoid unsafe conditions back home, but upon setting up camp in various shelters, their fears were not long gone. Now Germany has heard their …
Sources: Express
Photo: Schwulenberatung Berlin
Why would a nice Jewish gay boy want to march in the NYC Steuben German-American Friendship Parade? First, I wanted to let more people know that Herr von Steuben, the Prussian American Revolutionary War hero, was gay. There are numerous books written about how George Washington didn’t care that Steuben …
Photo: Jon Nalley
Car commercials all start looking the same with the car driving along a mountainside and then some dramatic closeup, but in an attempt to sell their station wagons in Denmark, Opel took a different approach — showing closeup shots of men in their underwear, rocking some beautiful bulge. Opel believes men aren’t …
Sources: Opel, German Pulse
Coming out of the closet as a professional athlete is still a frowned upon decision, even in some of the most accepting countries, so when a soccer player in Germany turned to Reddit to come out, he did so without disclosing who he actually is. I have to say it …
Photo: Awaya Legends [Flickr]
Germany’s Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld may not be as commonly talked about around the gay community as some others, but his work has opened up a slew of possibilities and freedoms that San Francisco’s GLBT Historical Society is hoping to raise awareness to in a new exhibit at their museum that will …
Sources: GLBT Historical Society
Last weekend, a Berlin protestant church became the first of its kind to carry out a full marriage ceremony for a same-sex couple, paving the way for other gay couples to have their partnership recognized in the church. Marienkirche in Berlin gladly stepped up to offer the marriage ceremony of …
Sources: National Catholic Reporter
Photo: Secret Pilgrim [Flickr]
Overall, Germany has a relatively low number of reported hate crimes based on someones sexuality, but in 2015, Berlin, one of Germany’s most accepting cities, saw a 31-percent increase with 105 attacks versus 80 in 2014. Readers in the U.S. may look at that number and think it is low, …
Sources: Queer.de
Photo: Lwp Kommunikáció [Flickr]
A recent YouGov survey in Germany asked respondents to answer questions about their sexual history, and while the survey covers a range of topics from monogamy and masturbation, a set of questions centered around homosexual experiences, which roughly 13 percent admitted to having. Roughly one in seven claimed to have …
Sources: YouGov
Photo: Sasha Kargaltsev [Flickr]
There’s not much to say beyond the title of this post, and I’m sure if there was you would just skip to the link with the photos anyway. I don’t blame you 😉 But if you want a little more meat to the story (pun very much so intended), Manuel …
Sources: Manuel Moncayo, Accidental Bear
Photo: Manuel Moncayo
At this year’s Christopher Street Day (CSD) celebration in Cologne, Burger King came prepared to make a statement by selling a special edition ‘Proud Whopper’ with the message “We Are All The Same Inside” printed on the inside of the wrapper. The point of the special edition menu item was to show …
Sources: Burger King Deutschland
