Gay Bars in Berlin

Berghain

Quite possibly the greatest club in the history of the universe

An oversized disused 1953 East Berlin power plant made good by two low-profile gay visionaries (Norbert Thormann and...

Nominated for Best of GayCities 2023 - Clubbing King

Friedrichshain · Am Wriezener Bahnhof 1, Berlin

• 20+
• dancing
• after hours
• 18+
• mixed gay/straight
• $$
• nightclub
• locals
• lively

Reliable leather-friendly non-leather bar for tapering on

A generously sized and tastefully brick-walled space with a determinedly darkened basement, Prinzknecht has a...

Schöneberg · Fuggerstraße 33, Berlin

• Backroom
• leather
• happy hour
• bears
• cruising

Berlin's top den for bears and otters

Popular, casual, near-nondescript space with darkroom that attracts older bears [ageing clones from yesteryear?] and...

Schöneberg · Fuggerstraße 37, Berlin

• Backroom
• leather
• happy hour
• bears
• punk
• themed

Cocktails on the Mozstraße

Popular and consciously stylish gay-gay-gay bar with a lounge mentality and well-paid staff known for their good...

Schöneberg · Motzstraße 5, Schöneberg, Berlin

• after hours
• mixed LGBTQ+
• cocktail lounge

No-holds-barred cruising ground on the Motzstraße

Popular, sleaze-friendly and rather intimate (cramped) two-floor Schöneberg institution attracting young and ageing...

Schöneberg · Motzstraße 25, Berlin

• Backroom
• leather
• cruising
• after hours
• punk

Queer party outrageousness

Festive and sexy after-hours basement clubbing with three dance floors, sufficiently hip DJs and a youngish and very...

Neukölln · Rollbergstraße 26, Berlin

• 20+
• 30+
• dancing
• drag
• after hours
• mixed LGBTQ+
• live entertainment

Gay-ghetto-central party-party-party watering hole

Not quite the full-on-trendy bar that it was, Hafen still has a major pull, with themed monthly parties (notably in...

Schöneberg · Motzstraße 19, Berlin

• 20+
• 30+
• cruising

Enter the twilight zone

Popular club space for techno dancing and drinking. You might consider tapering on next door at the Prinzknecht [see...

Schöneberg · Fuggerstraße 33, Berlin

• Backroom
• dancing
• cruising
• after hours

High-up late-night Sunday night/Monday morning party

Popular monthly end-of-weekend, DJ-driven house/electro/disco/urban dance club organised by Boy Young, who's been...

Mitte · Brunnenstraße 197–198, Berlin

• trans-friendly
• 20+
• 30+
• dancing

Den of upbeat sleaze

Following the May 2010 demise of after-hours bar New Action, Stuttgart-raised Thomas Pfizenmaier (owner of Hamburg's...

Schöneberg · Kleiststraße 35, Berlin

• Backroom
• leather
• cruising
• after hours