Overview

• Several hundred thousand people marched through Berlin on July 26 under the motto “Nie wieder still,” marking the largest CSD turnout in years.
• Participants used banners and speeches to protest the Bundestag’s ban on the rainbow flag, mocking President Julia Klöckner and Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s “no circus tent” remark.
• Authorities deployed around 1,300 police officers, 1,000 private security guards and 280 medics to secure the route and dispersed a 30–50 person extremist counter-demonstration with multiple arrests.
• Two members of the CDU’s Lesben und Schwule in der Union were spat on and punched during the parade, prompting police investigations into the attacks.
• Police disbanded a simultaneous “Internationalist Queer Pride for Liberation” rally of around 10,000 after antisemitic chants and repeated assaults on officers resulted in 57 arrests.