in east berlin, there was also a small connected queer scene in communist east germany. nadia schellenberg lived openly as a trans person and was an activist in the queer community groups. one of her main meeting places was the san tugs club which still exists today. ah, as a 1000000000 via berlin was always melting hot for all kinds of people in east germany for intellectuals, homosexuals, artists, and miss fed them all. there wasn't much information in the eighty's and from one, neither in west germany, nor in the east to go on read also wish. and what you did see in the media was almost always presented in a very negative lights, a man in women's clothing, but that was something out of the movies on clyde, on the popular infirmary, because in east berlin show, lot of fun miles door was a pioneer in the trans community, she began collecting every day objects in the 19 fifties and exhibiting them in the goods house. mazda of the manor house became a villa, meaning an arrow museum, and a famous meeting place for east berlin's queer community. on coming all topics for after coming out i met

and nadia schellenberg chapter 4, how do you trans people live in berlin to day? and what problems do they face? barren, many spaces in berlin, a can act a safe harbors for trans people, but not universally as video as a whole. is huge dimension of head crimes and violence and discrimination that we experience in the streets in our workplaces and in our social environments. it's difficult to gauge the exact extent of violence against queer people until recently, only a fraction of anti l g b t q i. crime was recorded by the authorities in 2020 however, for lynn became the 1st german state to publish an annual report monitoring the homophobic and transpose big violence. in 2021. the victim support center monet register just spike and reports. despite an estimated 80 to 90 percent of incidence going unreported, the center recorded 731 cases of insults, threats, and attacks against transgender people, gays, and lesbians. in this in between phase where like they can't tell if you're a woman or a man, people get really angry. they get angry that they, they can't figure