The show, which includes videos interviews from Bruce LaBruce and Florian Hetz, among others, shows archives from public toilets all over the map and Marc Martin's erotic pictures, taken in old public toilets that have been closed for 30 years. "Fenster zum Klo" (the show's title in German means "a window on toilets"), is an exhibition on display at the Schwules Museum Berlin until February 5. Within these atypical places of transience and sociability, social differences were blurred and otherwise separated cultures briefly mixed. And yet these public places, which sheltered the escapades of so many gay men, transvestites, prostitutes, and libertines, were also sites of unbridled freedom. Within the gay community, sex in public toilets remain more a source of shame than pride.
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