Searching for a Queer Social Scene at Penn
(10/24/18 12:00pm)
The summer before freshman year, I ended up in Berlin. Traveling alone in Europe, I didn’t really know anything about the city before I checked into my hostel and started to explore. That night, I went to a classic underground Berlin party called Chantal’s House of Shame—run by the Drag Queen Chantal since 1999—and the young gay boy who grew up going to a private Catholic school in Florida realized what it meant to be queer. I was 18. And I’ll never forget it.