“gay capital berlin”
The ‘Independent on Sunday’ interviewed human-rights-activist Peter Tatchall.
“[…]Manchester, a city whose regeneration has been helped by gay culture. Sponsors include Manchester City Council (flying a rainbow flag from public buildings) Selfridges and even the Highways Agency.”
Wow, I honestly thought: I even heard that there was shortly a identifiing with lesbian and gay people, from official side, but I never believed that they are upholding it in general…
“Things have changed for the better? He switches tack. “Yes. The decline of physical attacks on me is probably a rough barometer of the demise of homophobia in Britain. I don’t want to diminish the gains of the past decade, but it would be a mistake to assume they are permanent. Let’s not forget, Berlin was the gay capital of the world in 1930. Then Hitler came to power and gay and bisexual men were carted off to concentration camps.”"

