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Ivanka booed at women’s summit
Not just boos, but groans and hisses, too.
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Police stop bombing in Berlin at LGBTQ rights rally
A 24-year-old Moroccan man planned to blow up the Russian embassy during the protest.
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American hospitalized after Berlin terror attack that killed his partner
Richard Ramirez of San Benito, Texas moved to Berlin a decade ago to live with his partner, who was among the dozen people killed in the attack.
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Berlin court fines three men for trying to force boy into marriage because he’s gay
The boy, now 18, told a Berlin newspaper he had come out as gay and his father decided to force him into marriage at age 15.
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Berlin’s first openly gay mayor to resign by end of year
BERLIN — Charismatic Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit, whose reputation has taken a beating over struggles in the construction of the German capital’s new international airport, said Tuesday he will step down by the end of the year. Wowereit told reporters he would resign Dec. 11 after more than 13 years in office.
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Graveyard exclusively for lesbians being inaugurated in historic Berlin cemetery
BERLIN — A new burial area for lesbians only is being inaugurated this weekend in a two-century-old cemetery in the German capital.
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Obama urges international community to embrace LGBT equality in Berlin speech
BERLIN — President Obama on Wednesday urged the international community to embrace equality and to “stand up for our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters.”
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Gad Beck, last known gay Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, dies at 89
BERLIN — Gad Beck, a pioneering gay rights activist and educator in a severely anti-homosexual, repressive post-World War II German culture, has died, just six days before his 89th birthday. Beck was believed to be the last known gay Jewish survivor of the Holocaust.
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Canadian porn actor arrested in Berlin for murder, dismemberment of man he once dated
A Canadian porn actor accused of the grisly murder of a Chinese man studying in Montreal that he once dated, was taken into custody in Berlin Monday, following an international manhunt.