Call to make Berlin a ‘queer-freedom zone’ comes in response to the deteriorating safety for gays and lesbians in Hungary and Poland
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Participants take part in the annual Christopher Street Day parade on July 24, 2021, in Berlin. The Christopher Street Day parade is held in memory of the first big uprising of the gay community against police assaults in New York's Greenwich Village in June, 1969.Some 35,000 revellers marched for LGBTQ rights at Berlin’s annual Christopher Street Day celebration on Saturday, twice as many as expected.
“LGBT-free zones” have been declared in parts of Poland, while Hungary recently passed a law banning the depiction of homosexuality or gender reassignment to minors that has been denounced as discriminatory by human rights groups.Lederer said the situation in the two EU members “sends shivers down my back.”
Organizers of the parade had been expecting around 20,000 people amid social distancing rules and a ban on alcohol to combat the risk of new coronavirus infections.
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