CSD Berlin 2014

CSD Berlin – Berlin, Germany

On 21 June 2014, the Christopher Street Day parade will take place in Berlin. Around 500,000 protesters and spectators are expected this year and will provide you with their extravagant costumes, provocative posters and good humor of the capital a completely new paint.

CSD Berlin 2014

This year’s parade takes place under the motto “LGBTI * rights are human rights” instead.

The current state of the route: Kurfürstendamm (corner Olivaerplatz) – Wittenberg Platz – Nollendorfplatz – Lützowplatz – Big Star – Victory Column. From the Victory Column in Hofjägerallee the CSD Final will take place.

We appreciate the support and recognition of the importance of LGBTI issues by U.S. Ambassador John B. Emerson in Berlin. In a press conference on 05.14.2014, the following statement was read.

“More opportunities and equal rights to create one of the most important principles of President Obama. He believes that a world in which everyone – including homo-, bi-, trans-and inter-sexual – can pursue their dreams without being threatened with violence and discrimination, a better world.

In January 2013, he documented the first American president in the history of the United States the rights of LGBTI people in an inaugural address. President Obama said: “We have achieved our goal only if homosexuals are treated equally before the law, like everyone else, because if we are truly created equal, then you have the love that we give to one another, be of equal value.”

And right here in Berlin, the Brandenburg Gate, he said last June in his speech: “If we stand up for our gay brothers and sisters and treat their love and their rights before the law, we defend so that our own freedom. ”
Due to this kind of commitment in my country, in Germany and in other countries around the world progress is being made. Although the tireless efforts of generations changed sometimes slowly but steadily the course of history.

An important milestone in this history in the United States was the Gay Pride Parade, which took place on 28 June 1970. And civil rights activists gathered at the place where one years had previously held demonstrations that had been triggered by raids in the Stonewall Inn, a popular bar on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village in New York. At that time, homosexuality was illegal in the United States. Initially there was a protest march of several hundred participants. Along the way, more and more people joined. When the first protesters arrived at the Central Park, they were followed by thousands.

In the 40 years since this Gay Pride march it has the LGBTI community – worldwide in the United States and many other countries – managed to transform contempt in respect. Barriers have been torn down. Discriminatory laws were repealed. This is a good thing. It is important that governments protect and extend basic human rights.

But at Gay Pride is not just about what governments can and should do. It’s also about what can individuals when they get together.As we all know, this is not an easy task, but I bow to the commitment of all those who for the protection of LGBTI rights here in Berlin, the German capital, use-not only on a special day in the year when the Gay Pride is celebrated, but every day. “

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