Members Afternoon Tea

Members Afternoon Tea
Sunday 5th June,  between 2pm-6pm  

Hello lovely members and welcome to our first members soirée.. 
Please come and join us for the heady days of Berlin in the 1920's! There’s music, tea, coffee, cocktails, fine table service and strudel (amongst other cakes!) 

Feel free to wear something dashing and fancy, we will be!

Berlin has a long history of queer culture and in the 1920s the city was the Gay Capital of Europe. In 1896 the world's first gay magazine started in Berlin, called Der Eigen ("The Self-Owning"). Magnus Hirschfeld, a German physician, founded the Scientific Humanitarian Committee in May 1897 as a subset of Berlin's Institute for the Science of Sexuality. Not only was this organisation  the first of its kind in Germany, it was the first gay-rights organisation in the world to lobby for the rights of gay, lesbian, and transgender people, with a focus on representation.



During the 1920s and 1930s the world's first gay village was in Berlin's Schoenberg. Gay and lesbian bars and nightclubs flourished, as did queer artistic expression through films, music, and print publications. There was no censorship in the Weimar Republic so queer culture and life were really visible. Cabaret singer Claire Waldoff and actress Marlene Dietrich lived and worked in Berlin's queer neighbourhoods during this time. The first gay demonstration ever also started in Berlin in 1922. The Reichstag nearly decriminalised homosexuality in 1929, before the year’s economic crash made a final vote impossible, the rest as they say is history.

Join us at Gentleman Jacks Queer Tea House anytime between 2pm and 6pm, come for an hour come for four hours we don’t mind! We look forward to seeing you for good cheer, music, fine service, lovely cakes, tea, coffee or cocktails and to meet other members! If you are vegan or need gluten free cake please email me so I know at: campfuntime.social@gmail.com

Please bring your membership card with you when attending the event. If you’re not yet a member please join us for tea and get your membership with your cake! 🍰