The 4 Best LGBTQ-Friendly Tours in Germany

1.Gay Berlin Out in Schöneberg Walking Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 281 reviews · 2.5 hours · from $23Our pick

Join Tobias of Sonderweg-Berlin for a 2.5-hour walking tour through Schöneberg’s queer history. You’ll visit sites linked to the Nationalhof, El Dorado, Hollandais, and Kleist Casino, see Christopher Isherwood’s former home, and walk through the lesbian quarter and present-day gay district. Tours run in English or German and cost $23.

“We had a fantastic time with Tobias who was so knowledgeable about the rainbow neighbourhood but also just a lovely person. The tour was fascinating and we would do another one of his tours in a heart beat”

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2.Street Art & Berlin Gay, Queer, Trans History + Free Gay Map

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 15 reviews · from $57

Join trans woman guide Gali Jaffe for a two-hour small-group walk through Berlin’s street art and queer past. You’ll visit Schöneberg, Urban Nation, Christopher Isherwood’s former home, the site of El Dorado, and places linked to Magnus Hirschfeld. The tour runs in English, welcomes wheelchair users, and includes a free Berlin Gay Map.

“Gali’s “Street Art and Berlin Gay, Queer, and Trans History” tour was such a great experience. She really knows her stuff when it comes to Berlin’s art and cultural history and made the whole tour feel super engaging by tailoring it to what our group was interested in. I went with my 16-year-old doughter, and we both enjoyed it so much. The snow that started falling during the tour made everything feel extra special and added this magical vibe. If you want to see a different side of Berlin and learn something new, I can’t recommend this tour enough!Read more”

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3.Queer Berlin Tour: Birthplace of LGBTQ+ Movements

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 6 reviews · 3 hours · from $153Top rated

Spend three hours with guides Dan or Justin exploring Berlin’s queer past. Walk through Schöneberg, visit sites linked to Magnus Hirschfeld, Christopher Isherwood, Marlene Dietrich, Romy Haag, and David Bowie, then hear how queer life changed under the Nazis and behind the Iron Curtain. English and German tours are available.

“Dan, who came to Berlin before the wall came down, gives a fascinating and super fun tour. With a lively, story-specific soundtrack, Dan led us through many neighborhoods and eras of Berlin and Germany's incredible queer history. This tour examines Berlin in particular as a gay capital of the world for the past 100 plus years, and the horrifying genocide of homosexuals (even Hitler's best friend) under the National Socialists. The tour also informed us about some of the most prominent gay forefathers and celebrities. We loved hearing Dan's perspective on queer cabaret culture during the Weimar era, but also what live was like for LGBTQ under Nazi persecution and…”

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4.BKA Theater “Operetta for two gay tenors”

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 4 reviews

Spend 2.5 hours at Berlin’s BKA Theater with *Operetta for Two Gay Tenors*, by Florian Ludewig and Johannes Kram. Follow Tobi and Jan as country life, gay identity, love, sex, and city life collide in a funny, tender operetta filled with new songs, waltzes, and hearty theater gastronomy.

“This application probably made a mistake. It says on your application that show starts at 8 pm so that’s what I planned and came 7:45 pm prior the show. But the problem was that the show actually started at 7 pm so I missed almost half of it.. and it’s all because of your mistake. So I would like to get my money back due to this problem.. I actually wasn’t able to watch the show because the big part of it I just missed it because of your mistake. So I would like to get my refund, thank you.”

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