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Participants in the “Pride Demo” show solidarity with “Black Lives Matter“.
Photo: afp
“Save our community, save our pride. Stop sexual apartheid, ”the Pride organizers said on Facebook on the Internet. The focus of the demands is therefore on the situation of gays, lesbians and transsexuals in Poland, Russia and Ukraine as well as “the dramatic situation of the Berlin scene / community”.
The Christopher Street Days annually commemorate events in New York at the end of June 1969: At that time, police officers stormed the “Stonewall Inn” bar in Christopher Street in Manhattan and triggered a multi-day uprising by gays, lesbians and transsexuals against the arbitrariness.
Thousands of participants expected for “Black Lives Matter” demo
Thousands of people want to demonstrate again against racism in Berlin on Saturday (12.30 p.m.). To the rally at the Großer Stern with the motto “Black Lives Matter“More than 8,000 people registered on the Internet by Friday afternoon, another 20,000 are” interested “, reports the dpa. Had in early June on Alexanderplatz gathered for the killing of African American George Floyd by a police officer in the U.S. 15,000 people.
On Saturday there will also be a car parade against the corona rules across the city, and from 3 p.m. a hiphop festival in the Parkaue in Lichtenberg with 1,000 registered participants, as a police spokeswoman said.
At the demonstrations on Saturday, the participants should observe the corona distance rules according to announcements on the Internet.
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