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SCHWUZ IN FEBRUARY

Click the headline for full SchwuZ listings. Gay club SchwuZ is open every Wednesday, Friday, Saturday plus Berlinale / Teddy specials, Thu 16.02 Mommy is Coming and Naked hits on Thu 23.02. All that and more in your gay Berlin diary. SchwuZ is at Mehringdamm 61, Kreuzberg, Berlin.

THE BAREBACK ISSUE IN BERLIN

Berlin showings of The Bareback Issue are only four days away. Wednesday Nov 30 at SchwuZ then Thursday-Saturday Dec 1,2 and 3 at Cindy Wonderful's Fab Lab. It's a block buster. Click the headline for details.

LIVING WITH HEP-C?

Living with Hep-C and understand German? Then this may be for you. Before Popular music on Wed 14.9 gay club SchwuZ are having a talk show  and "Privatsprechstunde" by Dr. Keikawus Arastéh at 21:00. His subject: "Eine neue Ära in der Therapie der chronischen Hepatitis C". SchwuZ is at  Mehringdamm 61, Berlin-Kreuzberg. Entry free.

SENSATIONAL TOILETS

In Cafe Sundstrom last night (aka SchwuZ). It was dark and quiet late on Sunday and after a couple of their delicious Caiparinias a visit to the toilet was required. Toilet is not a good enough name for it. Upstairs party room would be more like it. The old dilapidated, dirty, drafty items out the back have gone. You now have to go up the stairs, where it is positively grand (but forget smart) - a large room with ample space for loitering around and five, yes five, cubicles on each side. If they were open for Schöner Ficken, which we missed, it must have been a sex party within a sex party.

AKZEPT 21 - WAITING FOR CHANTAL

Akzept 21 is a new gay bar at Rodenbergstr 21, Berlin-Prenzlauerberg. They have a 2 for 1 party on Wednesdays, they give away free tickets to SchwuZ on Fridays and Saturdays (unless they run out) and they have a 'Waiting for Chantal' party on Thursdays to warm you up for Chantals house of Shame.
Opening times: Mon-Thu 10:00-22:00, Fridays 10:00-open end, Saturdays: 14:00-open end, Sundays closed.
Web: www.akzept21.de

LITHUANIAN GAY SOLIDARITY NIGHT

8th May they had Lithuanian gay pride with 300 gays, 800 police and 1,000 counter demonstrators. Romas Labarauskas, openly gay Lithunian 19 year old film director has made a film called Porno Melody about two men trying to escape gay oppression in Lithuania. They're having a solidarity night in SchwuZ this evening, 29th, from 8pm. You can go there, have fun and help.

East fucks West

To celebrate the reunification of East and West germany, SchwuZ will be holding one of their 4-a-year sex parties on the Thursday 2nd October. It's not the usual Berlin filth. It attracts a younger, shyer crowd, it's fairly well lit and most people wear underwear. Good for beginners. The picture is, amazingly, a fairly accurate picture of what it might be like. Don't you want to be the guy in the middle?

SchwuZ is at Mehringdamm 61, Kreuzberg.

London Calling - Girl Monster

Team damaged visited London calling girl monster at Schwuz on Friday. Entry was simple. I said "I'm George on the guest list" (I was too) and they waved me through. Maybe they memorize the guest list before they start. The big attraction for us was Peaches who was DJ'ing. She DJ's OK but she looked very small and I prefer her when she's performing on stagein her high heels. Miss Le Bomb (pictured), who was on the stage before Peaches, wowed the crowd. She was sexy, she sang great, she crowd surfed and she improvised while she was doing it.

The place was rammed. The crowd was very mixed. Straights, lesbians and gay boys. They were a lovely accepting crowd.

Bad points: 1) Unhappy women who roll their eyes if you're a bit drunk or step on their toes. For Chrissake it's a party! 2) Cloakroom queue. It was long and slow. The people in it looked miserable. I didn't join. Hey guys move some more staff into the cloakroom when you're busy!

Good points: Music, people, place, everything else :-). Click continue reading for more pics.

Schwuz - DD Review

Schwuz is the club, Cafe Sundstrom is the location. They say it's one of the oldest gay clubs / bars in Berlin. So that would be going back to the 1920's. They have a gay museum out the back. Upstairs they have a cafe / bar which attaracts a good crowd of all ages. Fridays and Saturdays they have a club downstairs with two dance floors and a chill room with a bar. Last time I was there (June 07) they have put up the entry price to 7€. Thats a bit pricey considering that Berghain is only 10€. The music was old-cheesy as usual. The best it got was when they played some old punk stuff. But it's very popular. The crowd remind me of people at Heaven, London. They are young and look like they have jobs. Shock horror.

Where	Mehringdamm 61, Kreuzberg Berlin
When	Schwuz: Fri & Sat from 11pm. Cafe: all day
from Web	http://www.schwuz.de
Attracts	Younger crowd: 20-35
Quantity	200-ish
Darkroom	No, except on 4 times yearly sex parties. Check dd's gay Berlin diary
Dance	Yes