Why THIS toilet is a Berlin gay icon

These old-fashioned public urinals actually hold a deep significance for Berlin’s gay community. 💚🏳️‍🌈 #berlin #germany #lgbtq #shorts #cruising

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[IO-zzxy]

Called a "cottage" here and those that "cruise" them are known as Cottage Queens😂😅
Regards from South Africa

[adnaanshahabi]

Our history is cruising in public bathrooms for sexual intimacy.

[jmrodriguez]

This was NOT the octagon I was searching for

[bratzliplogical]

I just find public toilets in general so discusting

[NikeyMiniyuh]

Great gay culture is associated with public indecency

[formerlyfromthefuton]

Another example of their beautiful and noble culture. 🤭

[Hell_Frozen]

### **Africa:**
- 🇿🇦 W Algeria
- 🇦🇴 W Angola
- 🇧🇼 W Botswana
- 🇧🇮 W Burundi
- 🇨🇲 W Cameroon
- 🇹🇩 W Chad
- 🇪🇬 W Egypt
- 🇸🇿 W Eswatini
- 🇪🇹 W Ethiopia
- 🇬🇭 W Ghana
- 🇰🇪 W Kenya
- 🇱🇷 W Liberia
- 🇲🇼 W Malawi
- 🇲🇷 W Mauritania
- 🇲🇦 W Morocco
- 🇲🇿 W Mozambique
- 🇳🇦 W Namibia
- 🇳🇬 W Nigeria
- 🇸🇳 W Senegal
- 🇸🇱 W Sierra Leone
- 🇸🇴 W Somalia
- 🇸🇸 W South Sudan
- 🇸🇩 W Sudan
- 🇹🇿 W Tanzania
- 🇹🇬 W Togo
- 🇹🇳 W Tunisia
- 🇺🇬 W Uganda
- 🇿🇲 W Zambia
- 🇿🇼 W Zimbabwe

### **Middle East:**
- 🇧🇭 W Bahrain
- 🇮🇷 W Iran
- 🇮🇶 W Iraq
- 🇯🇴 W Jordan
- 🇰🇼 W Kuwait
- 🇱🇧 W Lebanon
- 🇴🇲 W Oman
- 🇶🇦 W Qatar
- 🇸🇦 W Saudi Arabia
- 🇸🇾 W Syria
- 🇦🇪 W United Arab Emirates
- 🇾🇪 W Yemen

### **Asia:**
- 🇦🇫 W Afghanistan
- 🇧🇩 W Bangladesh
- 🇧🇹 W Bhutan
- 🇧🇳 W Brunei
- 🇨🇳 W China
- 🇮🇳 W India
- 🇮🇩 W Indonesia
- 🇯🇵 W Japan
- 🇲🇾 W Malaysia
- 🇲🇻 W Maldives
- 🇲🇲 W Myanmar
- 🇰🇵 W North Korea
- 🇵🇰 W Pakistan
- 🇸🇬 W Singapore
- 🇰🇷 W South Korea
- 🇱🇰 W Sri Lanka
- 🇻🇳 W Vietnam

### **Eastern Europe & Central Asia:**
- 🇦🇲 W Armenia
- 🇦🇿 W Azerbaijan
- 🇧🇾 W Belarus
- 🇬🇪 W Georgia
- 🇰🇿 W Kazakhstan
- 🇰🇬 W Kyrgyzstan
- 🇲🇩 W Moldova
- 🇷🇺 W Russia
- 🇹🇯 W Tajikistan
- 🇹🇲 W Turkmenistan
- 🇺🇦 W Ukraine
- 🇺🇿 W Uzbekistan

### **Central America & Caribbean:**
- 🇧🇿 W Belize
- 🇩🇴 W Dominican Republic
- 🇸🇻 W El Salvador
- 🇬🇹 W Guatemala
- 🇭🇹 W Haiti
- 🇭🇳 W Honduras
- 🇯🇲 W Jamaica
- 🇳🇮 W Nicaragua
- 🇱🇨 W Saint Lucia
- 🇻🇨 W Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- 🇹🇹 W Trinidad and Tobago

### **Oceania:**
- 🇵🇬 W Papua New Guinea
- 🇸🇧 W Solomon Islands
- 🇹🇴 W Tonga
- 🇹🇻 W Tuvalu
- 🇼🇸 W Samoa

( Like if your country is here 👇 )

[bluemountainw]

So men would hook up in that tiny public urinal? What if someone went to pee and there were two men hooking up??

[E-Sapper]

Nah bro, there made cause people were chill about each other back then, ever been in a highschool locker room?

[_xeere]

Gay history be like: Here's the bar we used to hook up. The toilets we used to hook up. The dodgy underpass we used to hook up. The club we used to hook up (they had to close the scat floor after the city of New York declared it was a biohazard).
Yall ever think there are some things you shouldn't be proud of?

[hhproductions]

Proud of getting your partner in a place to deficate?

[soulassassing]

In America we got rest stops and YMCA's.

[NotjustGrey]

The correlation between drug use and cruising is a strong one.

[mattybrunolucaszeneresalas]

I mean cruising is not a a code word it’s a slang word popular especially between the 50s and 90s

[davidakrapovic]

Incredible that gay culture resumes in this lmao

[glynnharris]

I thought this was about fighting in a octagon urinal

[NiceButBites]

Where is the non-burger one?... I'm going to Berlin soon and would love to photograph one of these,

[SiL-ujzl]

They are not unique to Berlin- there is one exactly the same in Twickenham SW London and its still in use!

[marycastillo-frdf]

I wish to say the n word but I i’m Mexican

[vonbeedle]

honestly bring these back so i dont have to piss in a hotel