Although the numbers range wildly, the crowd which descended on Berlin for the city's gay pride was clearly vast. European media are reporting widely-ranging crowd estimates from 250,000 to 600,000 people, coming out to mark Christopher Street Day, a commemoration of the start of the gay rights movement in New York. Fifty floats carrying dancers travelled through through Berlin, where this year's theme was Normal is Different. Participants took the chance to get into football fever to tie in with the FIFA World Cup – handing out pink cards rather than the tradition red and yellow. Berlin's openly-gay Mayor Klaus Wowereit told German news agency dpa that queer people are still fighting for quality. "There is still today daily attacks and discrimination against homosexuals," he said.
Credit: GayNZ.com Daily News staff
First published: Monday, 21st June 2010 - 5:04pm