Local officials and other German parliamentarians, present at the Pride Parade in Hamburg. Credit Foro: Christian Charisius / DPA / Profimedia
Over a quarter of a million people took part on Saturday at the Pride Parade in Hamburg, the organizers greeting the largest participation ever seen in the northern city of Germany, the DPA agency, quoted by Agerpres.
“There were about 260,000 people around and around the demonstration,” said a police spokesman for the German press agency DPA.
The march of Christopher Street (CSD) – a term used in Germany with reference to Lesbian, homosexual, bisexual and transsexual holidays and the Queer community (LGBT+) – was organized by the Hamburg Pride Association, and the organizers confessed that they were overwhelmed.
“This was the largest CSD demonstration in the history of Hamburg,” said Manuel Opitz spokesman for DPA. “We are incredibly proud that we could send such a strong signal today for the visibility of Queer and we feel supported by the Urban Society of Hamburg.”
The motto of this year was: “We are and stay here. Protected Queer people.”
It was the 45th CSD demonstration in Hamburg, including Mayor Peter Tschentscher and many other city officials.
At the parade they paraded over 60 of which allegorical from some associations, parties, companies and church communities, traveling a route of 4.3 kilometers.
The CSD refers to the address of the Stonewall Inn hotel in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York, where a protest against discrimination by the police, on June 28, 1969, started the Freedom Movement of Homosexuals, explains the DPA agency.
