Tens of thousands march for LGBTQ rights at Berlin parade
ABP NewsBerlin, Jul 24 : Around 65,000 revellers marched for LGBTQ rights at Berlin's annual Christopher Street Day celebration on Saturday, more than three times as many as expected. The parade started with a call from Klaus Lederer, Berlin's senator for culture, to make the city a “queer-freedom zone” in response to deteriorating safety for gays and lesbians in Hungary and neighbouring Poland. He said “there is still much work to be done.” Police spokesman Martin Dams initially told The Associated Press that an estimated 35,000 people were taking part in the parade, but this figure was revised upwards later Saturday. There was no parade last year due to the pandemic so many people took advantage of the warm sunny weather and relatively low rate of infections to take part in the last major gathering for Berlin's Pride month.
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