"... Even in a club culture that prides itself on permissiveness, Berlin’s Gegen is something else: It’s a lgbtq+Q-oriented techno party—or, as co-founder DJ Warbear explained to Electronic Beats, “basically a techno-oriented, queer-positive dancefloor”—that takes place at the KitKat Club, one of Berlin’s most iconic sex clubs, and that happens to have a healthy does of critical thinking baked right in. “Gegen” is German for “against,” which covers the party’s oppositional aspect (against homophobia, against heteronormativity, against patriarchy, etc.). But it also means something like “around,” and that conceptual slipperiness is a big part of the party’s identity.