Stages, music trucks and speeches: The organizers want to celebrate Christopher Street Day 2022 in the federal capital again.
Berlin – The organizers of Christopher Street Day (CSD) in Berlin are again expecting a million revelers at their big parade this year.
“We expect as many people as in 2019,” said CSD board member Nasser El-Ahmad of the German Press Agency. Accordingly, the party train should take place on July 23 with stages, music trucks and many political and activist speeches and start in Leipziger Straße. The end point is again the Brandenburg Gate.
The organizers assume that all corona rules will have been lifted by then – including the obligation to wear a mask for events, said El-Ahmad. They are in regular contact with the administration and the police. If necessary, a hygiene concept has been developed. Around 500,000 people have been registered with the police so far.
In 2019, the organizers counted one million participants. In 2020, the protest was moved to the internet because of the corona pandemic. In 2021 there was a demo with tens of thousands of people. The police spoke of around 65,000 participants, the organizers of 80,000.
With the CSD – often called “Pride” internationally – events in 1969 in New York are remembered in many places: police officers stormed the “Stonewall Inn” bar on Christopher Street and triggered a multi-day riot by gays, lesbians and transsexuals. dpa
