The first Christopher Street Day (CSD) in Berlin was celebrated on the 30th of June 1979. Since then the Community has been developing its diversity and its political aims. But discrimination towards gays, lesbians, transgenders and bisexuals still exists.
Up to 500,000 people party at this annual event which ist known as the biggest gay-lesbian “holiday”. For the Community the CSD is the appropriate platform to add the right weight to long overdue demands.
To get in tune for the CSD gay and lesbians start to celebrate themselves on the weekend before at the Lesbian and Gay City Festival at Nollendorfplatz.
The CSD is held in memory of the first big uprising of homosexuals against police assaults in Greenwich Village (New York, USA) on June 27, 1969. The so-called Stonewall Riots took place in the bar Stonewall Inn. The first German CSDs took place in Bremen and Berlin in 1979.
When: 22nd of June 2013
Where: The parade starts at Gitschiner Straße/Prinzenstraße and ends at Brandenburger Tor
Time: 12 noon to 4.30 pm
Entrance: free
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Bus:
Prinzenstr. (Berlin) (U): 140, N1 Wilmsstr. (Berlin): 140 Prinzenstr./Ritterstr. (Berlin): 140 Urbanstr./Baerwaldstr. (Berlin): 140, M41 Tempelherrenstr. (Berlin): M41 |
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