Half a million celebrate Gay Pride in Berlin

[Nictoshek]

By Agence France-Presse
Saturday, June 19th, 2010

BERLIN — An estimated half a million people partied in the streets of Berlin on Saturday for the annual Gay Pride festival, organisers said.

More than 50 floats travelled through the streets pumping out techno music on a cool but sunny day in the German capital, celebrating the 32nd edition of "Christopher Street Day" with the theme "Normal is Different."

For the first time the parade ended at the Brandenburg Gate.

Police were unable to confirm the number of participants.

The parade commemorates events in 1969 in New York's Christopher Street when customers of Stonewall's bar -- who were mostly transvestites and young prostitutes -- rebelled against a police raid. The four days of rioting that ensued launched the movement for gay and lesbian rights.

[pieter]

There are Gay parades in differant countries, Berlin, Amsterdam, New York...

[kaima]

They held their parade in Pittsburgh also, I read in the paper.

I have to wonder how people can consider their sexuality 'unnatural' when they too, were created by God that way. Just as we here, presumably, were all created with more conventional drives.

Kai handing it to you straight!

[Nictoshek]

Is 'public sex' really that popular in Europe these days ?