Schöneberg (Nollendorfplatz)

Schöneberg lies in the west of inner Berlin; its gay neighbourhood centres on Nollendorfplatz and the adjoining Motzstraße and Fuggerstraße.

Around Nollendorfplatz, gay bars, cafés, saunas and clubs line the streets, and each year the Lesbian and Gay City Festival turns the quarter into a huge street party. The neighbourhood is lively by day too, with the weekly market on Winterfeldtplatz and easy-going eateries, and is regarded as Berlin's traditional "rainbow district".

Schöneberg has been the historic heart of gay Berlin since the 1920s; Christopher Isherwood lived here and drew on the Weimar-era scene in his "Berlin Stories". At Nollendorfplatz U-Bahn station a pink-triangle plaque commemorates the homosexuals persecuted under National Socialism.