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Two months after a deadly attack on Berlin's Pride, voters in the capital made Die Linke the largest party for the first time. On the same day in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the far-right AfD took nearly two in five votes.
Munich's Oktoberfest opened this weekend with its traditional Rosa Wiesn keg tapping and Gay Sunday. New this year is a Pink Monday that includes the festival's first event for lesbians and FLINTA people. Here's the full queer calendar through October 4.
Munich doesn't get the queer travel spotlight that Berlin does, but between the Glockenbachviertel scene and the city's genuinely welcoming everyday feel, it deserves more attention than it gets.
Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig is pushing to add sexual identity to Germany's Basic Law as a protected category. The renewed push comes weeks after a deadly attack on Berlin's Christopher Street Day parade — and still faces a steep two-thirds hurdle in the Bundestag.
Zwickau's Christopher Street Day march this weekend runs straight through a district represented by the far-right AfD at every level of government — organizers say that's exactly why it has to happen.
The passport went to a non-binary Austrian living in Germany, and it's the first real-world test of a European Court of Justice ruling requiring EU states to recognize legal gender changes registered in another member state.
Lambda has run counseling lines, safe spaces, and youth groups across Germany since 1990. A federal budget decision this summer eliminated its funding entirely, and the fallout is still unfolding.
While the fatal Berlin Pride car-ramming made international headlines, a steady drip of smaller incidents — stolen flags in Mönchengladbach, torn-down banners in Prenzlauer Berg — tells its own story about the current climate for LGBTQ+ Germans.
Hamburg's Pride march went ahead under heavy security Saturday, with attendees in dark clothing and a Berlin float honoring victims of last weekend's terror attack.
With the suspect in Saturday's deadly Christopher Street Day attack dead and Berlin in mourning, queer Berliners and activists say their next fight is stopping the AfD from using the tragedy to win votes.
As Europe mourns the deadly attack at Berlin's Christopher Street Day, Amsterdam is adjusting security ahead of WorldPride 2026, which is expected to draw a million visitors starting next week.
A van rammed into crowds at Berlin's Christopher Street Day festivities Saturday night, followed by a bladed-weapon attack. German authorities are treating it as Islamist terrorism.
Strong legal protections, a landmark self-determination law now in force, and a well-funded Pride season — set against the steady pressure of a far-right party polling near the top. Where Germany actually stands this summer.
With a street festival July 3–5 and a parade of hundreds of floats on July 5, ColognePride returns under the motto 'For Queer Rights — Many. Together. Strong.'
Bundestag President Julia Klöckner has limited the Reichstag's rainbow flag to a single day a year and withdrawn the parliament's administration from Berlin's CSD. As Germany's Pride season opens, the fight has shifted from winning rights to defending them.
Across Western Europe, the fight over LGBTQ+ rights has moved into schools. From cancelled diversity programmes in Italy to challenged equality curricula in France and Germany, a once-stable region is quietly importing an American culture-war playbook.
Dresden CSD opens Saturday May 30 in a city and a state where the far-right AfD is the largest political force. The Saxon capital's Pride march has become one of the most heavily protected — and most closely watched — in Germany.
Ahead of Christopher Street Day season, German LGBTQ+ groups and extremism monitors warn that the far-right counter-marches that shadowed dozens of Pride events last year are organising earlier — and younger.
Berlin's Christopher Street Day returns in July under the slogan 'Haltung ist hot,' framing visibility itself as the political act. A look at the theme, the date, and the German backdrop.
On May 6 the Vatican made public a previously private 2024 doctrinal-office letter to Germany's bishops opposing formalized same-sex blessings. Three days later, an AP profile of Pope Leo XIV's first year crystallized what queer Catholics are reading: real openness to LGBTQ+ voices, a hard stop on doctrinal change.
