Gay community köln pride
You grasp it: if you’re a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, Cologne is with you! And Cologne Celebration shows that every year! Would you like to be part of this thrilling festival that rejects discrimination and celebrates self-confidence and joie de vivre? Hundreds of events, a parade through Cologne’s municipality centre lasting several hours and a street just proudly fly the flag that represents these beliefs. You’re cordially invited — however colourful you might be. Cologne loves you!
Cologne Pride is the overarching roof for countless activities that support the rights of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transsexuals, transgender people, queers, intersexual and asexual individuals, as well as everyone else. Every year there’s a programme that is spread out over two weeks.
Its highlight is the three-day Christopher Road Day street fair, with a demo-parade through the city centre of Cologne. It’s the biggest lgbtq+ fest parade in Europe. About million guests had been qualified to experience last in over foot groups and demo cars.
Association
ColognePride e.V. was founded in under the name Kölner Lesben- und Schwulentag e.V. (KLuST) (Cologne Woman loving woman and Gay Night Association) and is not only the organiser of CSD Cologne and ColognePride, but is also active in local politics and nationally. At the moment, ColognePride e.V. has about members (as of April ), including private individuals, queer gastronomy businesses, companies and associations. Nine voluntary board members, a managing director and three advisory board members work all year round for our interests in Cologne.
The soul of ColognePride are our political demands, which we focus on at ColognePride, but also at many lgbtq+ political events and discussions outside of ColognePride.
Extension of Article 3(3) of the Basic Law to include the characteristics of sexual and gender identity.
Nationwide behavior plans against homophobia, trans*, inter* and biophobia.
International commitment of the Federal Government to the observance of human rights, especially in the support of LGBTIQ* initiatives.
Support for LGBTIQ* refugees and greater
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About Cologne and its gay life
Although situated in Western Germany, Cologne is sometimes called the ›most southern town of Germany‹. That is partly because the people in Cologne tend to be more easy-going and approachable than in other German cities. And they adore to imitate the Southern European lifestyle – as soon as two rays of sunshine knock the city you will spot some tables outside in front of many cafes and bars.
Cologne had been extensively destroyed during World War II. And the paradigm of the first after-war and ›Wirtschaftswunder‹ decades to replace everything old by something new unfortunately did the rest to prevent Cologne from becoming one of the most interesting and beautiful cities in Germany. For the sight-seeing traveller it hasn't much to extend besides the Cathedral, an UNESCO World Heritage site, a spacious range of high quality art galleries and museums, and a few other attractions.
But Cologne more than compensates for this with its more approachable and easy-going atmosphere. As one result Cologne b
Cologne is colourful — and for many years it’s been an immovable standpoint for the issues affecting the LGBTQIA+ society. That’s because Cologne actively practices tolerance, a cosmopolitan perspective and peaceful coexistence. Whether it’s Pink Carnival or Christopher Street Date, the Schaafenstraßenfest street unbiased or the informative contact points — Cologne’s heart is in the right place. And the capital offers you an abundance of events, gay and lesbian cafés, bars, clubs and other gathering places such as Cologne’s Bermuda Triangle and the events around CSD, such as the ColognePride parade.
Cologne’s Christopher Avenue Parade is the biggest in Europe. The rainbow-hued two-week programme of more than events celebrates, commemorates, represents and presents the issues of the LGBTQIA+ community on all channels — to promote human rights, tolerance and the peaceful coexistence of people of every orientation.
Cologne’s Bermuda Triangle houses seven bars within metres — it’s your rainbow-hued