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Christopher Street Day © Berlin CSD
Christopher Street Day
The gay pride parade CSD has its origins in New York’s
Christopher Street, the site of violence between customers in a gay
bar and raiding police in June 1969. To commemorate the social
‘coming out’ of gay and lesbian communities, huge
street parties and parades take place to celebrate a greater
tolerance among the public and to demonstrate self-confidence in
their homosexuality. Although a huge, colourful festival with
hundreds of thousands of participants, including heterosexual
revellers, its political focus is the demand for legalization of
homosexual partnerships.
Date: June 2010 TBA;
Time: From 9.30am;
Website: www.csd-berlin.de
