A new burial ground reserved for lesbians is opening this weekend in Berlin.
Associated Press reports that a 400-square- meter section of the existing Lutheran Georgen Parochial cemetery will be set aside for gay women, with space for up to 80.
The Safia association, a national group primarily for elderly lesbians, said it created this space ‘a s a place where life and death connect, distinctive forms of cemetery culture can develop and where the lesbian community can live together in the afterlife ‘.
The group has promised to clean up,
landscape and maintain the area, in return for free use of the space.
landscape and maintain the area, in return for free use of the space.
Speaking with a German newspaper, The Local, Astrid Osterland , a member of Safia, said:
‘This effort has absolutely nothing against men, and technically, there are no rules prohibiting men (or heterosexual women) from selecting plots in the lesbian section‘.
