Overview

• Frankfurt’s four-day Christopher Street Day opened under the slogan “Nie wieder still – Frankfurt ist laut,” drawing around 150,000 visitors and a 25,000-strong parade with heightened police presence.
• Berlin’s CSD on July 26 will feature 80 trucks, 100 foot groups and hundreds of thousands of spectators for a more combative “Nie wieder still” march supported by 1,000 additional security personnel.
• Bundestag President Julia Klöckner has confined rainbow flags on the Reichstag to May 17 observances, a stance defended by CDU leader Friedrich Merz as necessary neutrality and decried by queer politicians as entrenching exclusion.
• Major brands including McDonald’s, Amazon and Nike have withdrawn visible Pride sponsorships amid political backlash, prompting #ActOut and other networks to urge allies to amplify queer visibility online and offline.
• Wolfratshausen is set to hold its first-ever CSD on July 26, organized by local activists to counter recent extremist graffiti and threats and to affirm rural queer communities’ place in democracy and diversity.