Gay Berlin Parties

Connection Club (Welserstrasse at Fuggerstrasse) has weekend dancing at their ground level bar where people emerge from the busy subterranean maze of passages (follow sign to toilets) to shake their libidos a bit before plunging back into the lusty and testosterone charged zones below. Stake a claim to seating above the bars, and you'll have a private nook from which to survey all those on the dance floor below.

Check out the big GMF gay dances at Weekend Club (Alexander Strasse 7) with appeal for a large and broad cross-section of people at their Alexanderplatz venue on two levels plus a roof terrace.

Schwuz (Mehringdamm 61) is a favorite weekend gay dance option for many young Berliners, in the Kreuzberg district on three floors with music and shows for many tastes, and styles. Men-only sex parties also take place here. SO 36 (Oranienstrasse 190), another Kreuzberg location, has a ever-changing variety of events, shows and dance nights including techno fests, Turkish and Arab music events. Every Sunday their tea-dance dubbed Cafe Fatal features Deutsche Schlager (German pop) and an rare and unlikely mix of folk.

Two more clubs in Friedrichshain are just across the Spree. Haus B (Warschauer Platz 18) has big gay and mixed weekend dance nights, and Wednesday night amateur strip offs. Club Paul is their men-only space within the larger complex each Saturday.

Berghain/Panorama (Radersdorfer Strasse at Wriezener Bahnhof) is techno-partier's dream in a spectacular former power plant. A mainly gay crowd comes for Klubnacht on Saturdays. No sex act seems left unexplored at Lab.oratory at the same location. Snax is the bi-monthly men-only sex and fetish party here, a shared event with Berghain, and the words naked, fuck, anal deep throat, rubber, and piss adorn their web site list of events like a liturgy.

Ackerkeller (Bergstrasse 67), in the central Mitte area, has weekly Tuesday men's dance nights, naked parties each second Saturday, and other mixed and queer events all week long. Also in Mitte, Bangaluu (Invalidenstrasse 30) is a restaurant with couch-reclining dining and Sunday night La Loca dance parties between stark-white walls. Klub International at Kino International (Karl-Marx-Allee 33) is a big first Saturday monthly gay dance party on four floors of one of Berlin's most attractive venues -- each first Saturday of the month.

Kitkat Club (Kopenickerstrasse 76) at the southern edge of Mitte, does Friday, Saturday and Sunday events from 11 p.m. and an after-hours called Nachspiel from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sundays followed by Deja-Vu from 11pm. Their dress code encourages erotic flamboyance. Other parties here include Piepshow, Carneball Bizarre, and Pornohouze. Young and old, gay and straight of all classes, and several genders mix here for "complete sensual and multi-sexual focus" as they put it. At Chromanova.de you can hear live-stream music direct from the KitKat.

In Nollendorfplatz, Propaganda is a gay dance every second Saturday night at the elaborate old theater Goya (Nollendorfplatz 5) on four floors with two dance floors, go-go dancers and table dances.

Other dance nights to check out include Saturdays at Ken (Obentraustrasse 19-21) near Hallesches Tor; Dice Club on Fridays and Saturdays just south of Alexanderplatz; and Spy Club once a month at Cookies, Unter den Linden.