Your gay friend drops in for a visit and you have no idea where to take him? You're new in town and don't know yet where the LGBT community meets? Find here a selection of the most welcoming, queerest and nicest gay bars where you can be yourself, enjoy a flirt and sometimes a little more than only a glass of Prosecco and Kylie Minogue songs...

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    The French-run Bar Saint Jean is currently the one of the hottest bars in Berlin-Mitte.

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    The Betty F on Mulackstraße in Berlin's Scheunenviertel is one of the most popular LGBT bars in Berlin.

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    For many residents of the area the bar Heile Welt is their second living room - plushy, welcoming and always full!

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    The Coven, now well-established in the community, uses the location of the former Sharon Stonewall Bar.

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    The Hafen is a popular point of call for the LGBT community, located in the traditionally gay quarter of Schöneberg.

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    Möbel Olfe near Kottbusser Tor calls itself a "Trinkhalle" ("Drinking Hall" ) and though a more alternative LGBT bar it's not only for lesbians and gays. The bar is located in a former furniture store.

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    The Berlin LGBT Bar "Zum schmutzigen Hobby" ("The Dirty Hobby") located on Friedrichshain's RAW grounds has long attained cult status.

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    The interior or Barbie Deinhoff's is mainly pink with the typical queer LGBT charme, making the bar one of the queerest in the Wrangelstraße neighbourhood.

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    Rather inconspicuous from the outside, the legendary LGBT bar Roses is on its inside somewhat like the Villa Villekulla of Pippi Longstocking on Oranienstraße.

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    The Himmelreich hosts both DJ events and wild parties.