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europride02_001.jpg Cologne Gay Pride or Christopher Street Day Cologne is the largest gay and lesbian organized event in Germany and one of the biggest in Europe. Its origin is to celebrate the pride in Gay and Lesbian Culture. World map showing Europe Europe is conventionally considered one of the seven continents which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiogeographic one. ...
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Christopher Street Parade Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures concern the culture, knowledge, and references shared by members of sexual minorities or transgendered people by virtue of their membership in those minorities or their state of being transgendered. ...
Cologne Gay Pride is made of a large city parade, and a week of a number of festivals, parties and political forums. The parade and festivals are comparable to carnival celebrations and the political motivation of the event did achieve a lot in equal rights and gay rights. United States Marines on parade. ...
Swabian-Alemannic carnival clowns in Wolfach, Germany A carnival is a public celebration or parade combining some elements of a circus and public street party, generally during the Carnival Season. ...
The Equal Rights Party was a Canadian political party that nominated two candidates in the 5 March 1891 federal election. ...
The gay rights movement is a collection of loosely aligned civil rights groups, human rights groups, support groups and political activists seeking acceptance, tolerance and equality for non-heterosexual, (homosexual, bisexual), and transgender people - despite the fact that it is typically referred to as the gay rights movement, members also...
Cologne Gay Pride takes place annualy in Cologne, Germany. Events in recent years had over 1 million participants. Cologne (German: â¶ (help· info) [kÅln]; Kölsch: Kölle) is Germanys fourth largest city after Berlin, Hamburg and Munich. ...
History
Cologne Gay Pride started during the 1980s as a small Christopher Street Day named by the 1970s riots in Christopher Street in New York City. Within a liberal political culture in former West Germany the Christopher Strret Day grew into one of the biggest celebration events in Germany. Education and support for AIDS became an important aspect during recent years. In 2002 Cologne Pride was also Europride a joint European event. The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ...
The President of the German Bundestag (Parliament), Wolfgang Thierse, addresses the crowd at CSD Berlin 2001. ...
The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ...
Christopher Street is a street in New Yorks West Village that was at the center of the gay rights movement in the late 1970s. ...
The Empire State Building (right) and the Chrysler Building (left) are easily recognized symbols of New York City to the world. ...
The Red Ribbon is the global symbol for solidarity with HIV-positive people and those living with AIDS. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome (or acronym AIDS or Aids), is a collection of symptoms and infections resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by infection...
2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
// Background Europride is an international Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender event that is hosted by a different European city each year. ...
See also The President of the German Bundestag (Parliament), Wolfgang Thierse, addresses the crowd at CSD Berlin 2001. ...
Gay Pride in San Francisco Gay Pride banner, Duke University, NC Gay Pride, Place de la Bastille, Paris The gay pride or simply pride campaign of the gay rights movement has three main premises: that people should be proud of what they are, that sexual diversity is a gift, and...
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