“Lots of people think that the fetish scene is all about sex, but they’re just the clothes we wear,” says the long-time LGBT activist at the “classic meets fetish” event. For the event he has the blessing of the minister, Burkhard Bornemann, openly gay and an active figure in the local community providing support for drug addicts and prostitutes. Not for me,” confesses Pup Luppi, a fifty-something year old man in a leather jumpsuit with a wagging dog’s tail. It lets you build a bridge between the gay community and our everyday life as a musician,” says Eric Beillevaire, a bass-baritone singer. Located in the Schoeneberg neighbourhood, the centre of Berlin’s gay scene, the Twelve Apostles Church is not a place of worship just like any other.

Source: The Local September 12, 2021 10:30 UTC