Emancipation efforts by lesbians, gay men, and trans people rely on creating "spaces of their own." In the various phases of the movements, these spaces have played a crucial role: flaps as public toilets that men have appropriated as sexual spaces; local centers of self-organization, political resistance, and self-help; the bar and club culture as a place of self-testing and self-assertion for trans people; safe spaces for women, lesbians, and trans people; and virtual rather than real spaces, such as dating platforms as a continuation of pub culture by other means.