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Berlin Pride 2024 Berlin, Germany

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Berlin Cops Beat up Queers for Palestine - Left Voice

On Saturday, police attacked the Internationalist Queer Pride demonstration in Berlin.

On Saturday, Berlin police detained a queer person for wearing a white t-shirt with a pink triangle. That symbol was forced on gay men in the concentration camps—wouldn’t German cops remember?—and has since come to stand for remembrance and resistance. Yet under an increasingly authoritarian government, a pink triangle might be a banned marker of a terrorist organization. People at an anticapitalist pride demonstration got punched, shoved, and arrested by heavily armed cops. In previous years, police seemed hesitant to create images of such unhinged violence in a city that officially supports gay rights. But as democratic freedoms have been squashed in the name of suppressing Palestine solidarity, Berlin police have come to understand they can do whatever they want without fearing criticism from politicians, media, or judges. This festival of queerphobic violence took place just a few kilometers down the road from the city’s main pride demonstration. CSD Berlin’s right-wing mayor Kai Wegner went to Christopher Street Day (CSD), as the Pride demonstration here has been called since it was launched in 1979, to say that the rainbow flag “belongs in the center of our society.” This was a rebuke to Friedrich Merz and Julia Klöckner, Wegner’s colleagues in the CDU, for refusing to raise the rainbow flag at the Bundestag. Hundreds of thousands of people danced at CSD alongside floats from Vattenfall, Siemens, Commerzbank, and Mercedes-Benz, companies which often only find their voices to champion queer liberation every July. The CDU—the party that deports queer refugees, voted against marriage equality, and prevented the rehabilitation of all gay men convicted under Germany’s notorious paragraph 175—had its own float, as did the far-right media company Axel Springer. Wegner marched behind a banner that said “Homos Jews Women,” which might sound strange, giving Wegner’s long-standing connections to far-right antisemites. Yet East Pride Berlin is not a Jewish group—it appears to be older white men who support Israel’s far-right government and attacked the Dyke March for speaking out against genocide. Wegner is just another example of antisemites who love Israel.

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My sign for CSD Berlin / Berlin Pride. A bit of a part 2 to this.

[English translation/explanation/description: A sign with the trans flag as a background saying "Human dignity is inviolable", which is the 1st article of the German constitution. Under that, a hashtag that says #Self-determination NOW! - This is a call to the goverment to finally pass the self-determination law, which would allow trans people to change their gender legally more easily, instead of having to go through the humiliating, un-dignified process that it currently is.]

(Idea stolen from a trans friend who had the same sign a few years ago.)

I was absolutely blown away by the overwhelming number of positive reactions to my sign. So many people did stuff like pointing at the sign from afar and giving me a thumbs up or forming a heart with their hands. Several people took a photo or stopped to tell me they like/agree with the sign. One woman pointed at my sign and blew me a kiss. A few people hugged me. Some other lesbians had signs saying "Dykes for trans rights" and when we spotted each other our reaction was basically the meme where the two spider-men point at each other.

Thank you for an amazing day, Berlin!

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johnlock at berlin pride

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We had FUN!!!!!! 🏳️‍🌈 😁 ❤🧡💛💚💙💜

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More photos of Max at Berlin Pride in July surfaced... let’s see if Tumblr would flag this.

A gentle reminder that it was one of the hottest days in Berlin this year - and then they put Max there 😉

Repost from @riemeltbrasil twitter.

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going to my first pride after coming out was a huge deal and it was very emotional so, I hope Matteo and David have a lot of fun and that they know that they are important and loved.