Germany has long been lauded for its liberal attitude toward sex. “There is nothing that she has not seen,” he said. Chuckling, he told the group that an elderly woman nonchalantly wanders through Bull with a sandwich cart at 5 a.m. “There’s been a gay bar of some kind at this address for more than 100 years,” Nash, an energetic 54-year-old, explained to a walking tour he was leading as he gestured enthusiastically at a neon sign outside, which featured cattle with large nose rings. To the British historian Brendan Nash, it is a symbol of “Babylon Berlin,” a golden decade of LGBT freedom in the city in the 1920s, when the bisexual Hollywood star Marlene Dietrich mixed with prostitutes and transgender dance-hall girls. To patrons, it is a 24-hour safe space that caters to every palate. ET on March 12, 2019.īERLIN-The fetish cruising bar Bull is a place of pilgrimage in Berlin for more than one reason.