Germany sees anti-Pride events and restricts rainbow flags ahead of LGBTQ+ parties
BERLIN, GERMANY, JUL 25 – Berlin's transport authority painted the Bundestag subway station in rainbow colors after the federal parliament banned Pride flags, amid a rise in queerphobic hate crimes, officials said.
- On Saturday, Berlin's Christopher Street Day parade begins without a rainbow flag over the Reichstag, breaking a tradition introduced in 2022.
- Last month, Julia Klöckner, Bundestag President, barred the flag through Pride month, ordered staff to remove rainbow decorations from offices.
- BVG decorated the Bundestag U-Bahn station in rainbow colours, `We are happy to help you fly the flag,` BVG said.
- Seventeen extreme-right anti-Pride demonstrations this year, the Center for Monitoring, Analysis and Strategy reported, raising safety concerns for Pride attendees.
- Despite threats, Berlin's Nollendorfplatz hosts its own Pride event, while over 200 Pride celebrations occur across Germany this year.
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Germany sees anti-Pride events and restricts rainbow flags ahead of LGBTQ+ parties
The tree-lined neighborhood near Nollendorfplatz square in central Berlin is as gay today as it was a century ago.It’s where Christopher Isherwood wrote novels chronicling the rise of the Nazis amid the city’s rich queer nightlife that inspired the musical Cabaret.Every summer, the neighborhood throws its own smaller-scale LGBTQ+ Pride event separate from the city’s main annual parade taking place this weekend.It’s just one of more than 200 Prid…
In Germany, the LGBTQ+ flag is at the heart of a new culture war
The Bundestag president's refusal to fly the rainbow flag atop the parliamentary building during Berlin's annual parade in support of sexual and gender minority rights on July 26 has sparked controversy across Germany.
What was taken for granted is becoming a political area: the Federal Council will honour the Christopher Street Day in Berlin on Saturday with a rainbow flag. President Klöckner did not want this for the Bundestag.
The Federal Council wants to set a sign of diversity with the raising of the rainbow flag for Christopher Street Day. The flag will not blow at the Bundestag, as decided by Bundestag President Klöckner.
The Federal Council - unlike the Bundestag - will raise the rainbow flag tomorrow on the occasion of Christopher Street Day.
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