Christopher Street Day
christopher street day csd annual european lgbtq celebration demonstration held various city across europe right lgbtq people discrimination exclusion germany switzerland counterpart gay pride pride parade austria call pride parade rainbow parade prominent csd event berlin pride csd hamburg csd cologne germany csd zürich switzerland csd held memory stonewall riot first big uprising lgbt people police assault took place stonewall inn bar manhattan new york city christopher street district greenwich village june saturday june march mark first anniversary stonewall held chicago san francisco followed sunday june christopher street liberation day parade new york christopher street west association parade los angeles four gathering first pride parade united state history accommodate interest many different group participating christopher street liberation day committee named day leading march gay pride week first four american city since continued celebrate pride last weekend june become international tradition hold demonstration right lgbt people summer first german christopher street day took place berlin parade different name first documented lgbt parade germany münster april first parade switzerland celebrated june zürich called christopher street liberation memorial day csd berlin started almost every large city germany celebrates csd largest berlin berlin pride hamburg hamburg pride cologne cologne pride cologne hosted europride attracted million participant spectator city together cologne carnival due organizational reason csds take place historic date june different weekend june august one hand csds considered political parade therefore also include speech political motto attendance patronage wellknown politician hand csds often compared carnival procession techno parade celebrating partying main focus typical christopher street day parade includes float well walking group usually provided made member lgbt organization increasingly used also platform political campaigning commercial advertising float political party commercially sponsored truck becoming common also typical see many drag queen woman men colorfully dressed bdsm enthusiast also often participate csds parade usually quite joyous rather upbeat exciting energy addition parade final rally many city day whole week street festival cultural event artist political event lecture reading party festivity largest gay street party europe held year since berlin called lesbian gay city festival lesbischschwules stadtfest berlin today berlin leading city europe come gay event four major gay festival held year lesbian gay city festival berlin pride folsom europe easter berlin even smaller pride parade called kreuzberg pride held every year together dyke march growth commercialization csds coupled depoliticization – led alternative csd berlin socalled kreuzberg pride kreuzberger csd transgenialer transgenialtrans ingenious csd political party member invited speech party company sponsor float parade festival stage political speaker entertainer group discus lesbiantranssexualtransgendergay queer perspective issue poverty unemployment benefit hartz iv gentrification fortress europe june american philosopher theorist judith butler refused civil courage award zivilcouragepreis christopher street day parade berlin germany award ceremony arguing lamenting speech parade become commercial ignoring problem racism double discrimination facing homosexual transsexual migrant according butler even organizer promote racism general manager csd committee robert kastl countered butler allegation pointed organizer already awarded counselling center lesbian dealing double discrimination regarding allegation commercialism kastl explained csd organizer require small group pay participation fee start € go € also distanced form racism islamophobia politician often participate csds including federal foreign minister vice chancellor joschka fischer cologne hamburg cologne federal minister renate künast berlin former governing mayor berlin klaus wowereit since mayor frankfurt petra roth prime minister hesse roland koch frankfurt main president german bundestag wolfgang thierse berlin city politician also patron csd example hamburg former first mayor ortwin runde ole von beust dresden mayor ingolf rossberg würzburg claudia roth munich former mayor christian ude well current mayor dieter reiter brunswick former federal minister jürgen trittin aurich bamberg bayreuth berlin berlin pride kreuzberg pride easter berlin folsom europe bonn brunswick bremen darmstadt dortmund dresden düsseldorf duisburg erlangen essen esslingen neckar erfurt frankfurt main freiburg im breisgau gera hagen hamburg hamburg pride hanover heilbronn iserlohn jena karlsruhe kassel kiel koblenz köln cologne gay pride konstanz csd bodensee krefeld landsberg lech landshut leipzig lübeck lüneburg magdeburg mannheim csd rheinneckar mainz minden münchen neustrelitz smallest csd germany nürnberg oldenburg csd 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