Rainbow Flag No Longer Flies at Reichstag During Berlin Pride: "We Don't Want to Take a Position"
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During Berlin Pride, no rainbow flag will fly on the Reichstag. There will also be no delegation from parliament present. This has been decided by chairwoman Julia Klöckner (CDU). "The Reichstag does not want to take positions," says Germany expert Jeroen Reygaert. "Taking part in a demonstration or hanging a different flag is showing your colours."
The President of the Bundestag has defended her decision to prohibit the queer employee network of the Bundestag administration from participating in the CSD in Berlin. Her argument: political neutrality.
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der Standard DEThe state party secretary of the FPÖ Upper Austria, Michael Gruber, could imagine a legal ban on the rainbow parade. In the past he also noticed with gay-enemy statements
"Such things," says the FPÖ State Party Secretary, "are not to be celebrated publicly." Neos strongly criticizes the statements. The liberals would thus oppose the fundamental values of the Republic.
(Politics - Germany) SPD leader Matthias Miersch criticises that the queer group of the Bundestag administration is not allowed to participate in this year's Christopher Street Day in Berlin. read
In the dispute over the CSD participation of Bundestag employees, Bundestag President Julia Klöckner commits herself to state neutrality – and follows up. For this, education minister Karin Prien jumps into the breach. This post LGBTQ-Großumzug Klöckner defends CSD-Absage of the Bundestag administration was published on JUNGE FREIHEIT.
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