All this month, our magazine will be focusing on telling the stories from the Berlin LGBTQIA+ communities, past and present.
Story Frames: A Documentary Edition
Visual narratives of life, stories, and perspectives.
Voices in Focus – Interviews
Pride Edition: LGBTQ+ in Thailand Highlighted by Varuth Pongsapipatt
Discover firsthand how Thai photojournalist Varuth Pongsapipatt uses his camera to highlight overlooked social issues and underrepresented communities, including LGBTQ+ and those in Thailand’s sex industry.
Berlin Queer Voices: Interview with The Darvish
Christopher Street Day in Berlin is world-renowned as the city celebrates its ongoing history in the LGBTQI+ movement. IMAGO spoke to Berlin’s emerging queer performer, The Darvish, who has created their own niche blending traditional belly dancing with elements of drag.
Pride Edition: Queer Russian Berliners and LGBTQI Refugees
Berlin’s first official pride month is underway, but how are recent Russian policies and issues for refugees effecting LGBTQI people in Berlin and abroad?
Pride Edition: What does it mean to be a Queer Capital? Voices from Berlin
Mapping out the queer cultural roots of Berlin through the voices of those who contribute to Europe’s queer-capital, then and now.
Christopher Street Day & the Fall of the Berlin Wall: An Interview with Michael Hughes
IMAGO’s Michael Hughes photographed Berlin’s iconic Christopher Street Day, the original Pride march, the summer after the fall of the Berlin Wall. IMAGO spoke to him about his career and the city’s ever-shifting cultural landscape.
Visual Journeys
A Visual Timeline of LGBTQ+ History in Germany
Germany's LGBTQ+ history is marked by pioneering efforts, vibrant cultural eras, and severe oppression. From early advocacy milestones to the ongoing struggle for rights, this visual timeline highlights key moments from the IMAGO archive.
90’s Tuntenball – Berlin’s Legendary Drag Ball, Photos by Dieter Matthes
Dieter Matthes photographed some of the final moments of an iconic queer tradition in Berlin. For Pride Month, IMAGO spoke to him about his portraits that lend an outsider’s perspective into the lively and historic Tuntenball drag ball in the early 1990’s.
Narrative Perspectives – Articles
The Stonewall Riots and Christopher Street Day
The Stonewall Riots of 1969 were one of the most important moments in LGBTQ+ history, believed to be the start of the modern gay rights movement and Christopher Street Day. Read how it all started and view photos of activism in the 1970s.
How LGBTQ+ Community’s Largest Demographic Falls Between the Cracks
Everyone from Brenda Howard, the mother of Pride, to Angelina Jolie, Marlon Brando and even Alexander The Great, are or were bisexual -- the largest demographic in the LGBTQ+ community that has been silently pushed to the sidelines. As Pride Month comes to a close, guest writer Kitty Doherty examines an often-overlooked issue: bi-erasure.
Before the terror, there was glitter: The queer haven that was 1920’s Berlin
For Pride Month, we take a look back at our city’s longstanding roots in the LGBTQI+ movement, with archives of the queer haven that was 1920’s Berlin.
Pride: Profit or Purpose
As pride month comes to a close today, IMAGO Columnist Sofia Bergmann examines the position of Pride within cities around the world. Dissecting the dichotomy between cities that saw their annual parades return with a vengeance for celebration and recognition, juxtaposed with those met with harsher resistance and new laws actualized setting back LGBTQI+ rights, take a look at the intrinsic meaning of “Pride” from around the world.
