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Christopher Street Day 2025

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On Christopher Street Day, hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets to fight for the rights of LGBTQI people with a great parade, colourful floats and lots of music.

Around one million people usually take part in the Christopher Street Day parade. CSD commemorates the first known uprising by homosexuals and other sexual minorities against police brutality in New York's Christopher Street in Greenwich Village on 27 June 1969 in the Stonewall Inn bar. This was followed by days of street battles between homosexuals and the police.

"Only Strong Together - for Democracy and Diversity"

The 2024 motto was "Only strong together - for democracy and diversity". The organizers wanted to take a clear stand for democracy and warn against the dangers of right-wing groups and parties. In addition, the board makes several demands every year, which focus on the topics of transsexual law, blood donation bans and anti-queer crime, as well as publishing houses for more queer visibility, dating platforms for more educational prevention measures and the cosmetics industry for the abolition of discriminatory product names.

The History of Gay Pride in Berlin

The Christopher Street Day is held in memory of the Stonewall Riots, the first big uprising of homosexuals against police assaults in New York City on June 27, 1969. The riots took place in a bar called Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street. The first Christopher Street Day in Berlin took place on June 30, 1979 - "Gay Pride" was the motto under which 450 protestors took to the streets of West Berlin. The mood during the protests was boisterous and cheerful - no hostilities or even violence against participants were recorded, a marked difference to earlier events. These days, the CSD Parade is a celebration of queer life in Berlin and famous for its party atmosphere.