![]() This essay portrays those years as they appeared to me, brimming with arrogant pleasure, and ending in a comedown I always knew was in the cards. Such places in Berlin are disappearing, and these past few years may have been witness to the city’s final years of decadence. Gay bars, darkrooms, techno clubs-each are hosts, places of fantasy, to people who engage with one another as bodies, hard and tactile, not as algorithm, un-platformed. This is part one of his two-part personal essay.īerlin’s queer nightlife is inherently political. In the inaugural piece, writer Geoffrey Mak searches for himself within a helix of self-destruction and enlightenment during his first year in a new city. Each personal essay reveals how the party scene is as much about hedonism and celebration as it is about coming of age. ![]() Our newest series Ode to the Night captures the rave as a rite of passage.
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