– Around 500 people demonstrate on Christopher Street Day in Bern
Around 500 people gathered in Bern on Saturday to take part in Christopher Street Day (CSD). They moved from the Schützenmatte to the Bundesplatz.
Published: September 23, 2023, 4:04 p.m
A colorful procession of people gathered on the Schützenmatte and walked through the city.
Photo: Jürg Spori
Around 500 people demonstrated against discrimination against queer people in Bern on Saturday afternoon. They took part in Christopher Street Day (CSD) and walked in a procession from the Schützenmatte to Bundesplatz.
They marched through Bern armed with banners.
Photo: Jürg Spori
Queer people are insulted and discriminated against in public, as the CSD Bern announced before the rally. This has negative consequences and is reflected, for example, in the suicide rate among queer people. People who are also affected by other forms of discrimination in particular feel excluded from society.
Photo: Jürg Spori
Mostly young people took part in the rally, as a reporter from the Keystone-SDA news agency noted. Some of the participants were colorfully dressed.
According to the communiqué, Christopher Street Day commemorates the Stonewall Riots on June 28, 1969 in New York. That evening there was a police raid on the Stonewall Inn bar on Christopher Street. This bar is popular with the LGBT community and is considered the birthplace of the LGBT rights movement.
Rainbow flags fluttered in front of the Federal Palace.
Photo: Jürg Spori
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