Hamburg – Loud, weird and colorful – a city shows its colors!
Under the motto “5 to 12! You & I against right-wing pressure”, hundreds of thousands of people met on Saturday and celebrated Christopher Street Day with a kilometer-long party in the spirit of tolerance, love and respect.
A CSD participant with a demo poster
Photo: Markus Scholz/dpa
The demonstration started symbolically at five minutes to 12 noon at the Outer Alster and moved through the St. Georg district.
Mayor at the forefront
At the front, under a huge rainbow of balloons, walked Hamburg’s First Mayor Peter Tschentscher (58, SPD), next to his deputy Katharina Fegebank (47, Green Party).
Hamburg’s mayoral team Katharina Fegebank (Greens) and Peter Tschentscher (SPD)
Photo: HamburgNews
130 groups, including 59 trucks, marched through Lange Reihe in Hamburg, from there past the main train station, along Mönckebergstrasse to Rathausmarkt. The city, which had been decorated with rainbow flags for days on the occasion of Pride Week, showed its best side: lots of sunshine and only happy faces.
Neptune and an icy companion on the way through St. George
Photo: Markus Scholz/dpa
Happy in chains: These two also marched at the CSD party
Photo: BREUEL-BILD/CNTVfoto
Christopher Street Day has a long tradition and is now celebrated worldwide. The movement originated in New York, where a police raid on the Stonewall Inn bar in June 1969 led to an uprising by gays and lesbians.
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Street battles with police
They fought street battles with the police, especially on Christopher Street in the artists’ district of Greenwich Village.
Huge! This group of artists danced on stilts through the city
Photo: Markus Scholz/dpa
Green Party leader Ricarda Lang (30) looks quite small next to a tall drag queen
Photo: BREUEL-BILD/CNTVfoto
With the motto “5 to 12! You & I against right-wing pressure”, the organizers of the demo wanted to draw attention to the current political situation, which is now worrying many people:
Fear of Nazis
Right-wing populist parties are gaining more and more influence in many European countries, stirring up prejudices and inciting hatred against minorities. Homosexuals and other minorities feel particularly affected by this.
With a hat like this, you have a lot of beer on your head
Photo: BREUEL-BILD/CNTVfoto
Kisses for the police, nobody was afraid of physical contact at the CSD
Photo: HamburgNews
