Overview

• Official figures show queerphobic crimes climbed from 1,188 in 2022 to 2,108 in 2024, spurring unprecedented police and private security deployments at Pride events.
• Berlin’s “Nie wieder still” parade on July 26 will feature 80 trucks, around 100 foot groups and hundreds of thousands of participants on a route from Leipziger Platz to the Brandenburg Gate.
• Grassroots organizers in towns such as Wolfratshausen are staging their first Christopher Street Days in response to escalating right-wing threats, vandalism and intimidation.
• The Bundestag’s move to prohibit rainbow flags on the Reichstag and recent pullbacks by sponsors including McDonald’s, Amazon and Nike have intensified debates over political neutrality and funding.
• In Brandenburg a counter-demonstration by about 40 mostly teenage neo-Nazis trailing a local CSD highlighted the far-right challenges facing queer communities beyond major cities.