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Cologne Pride 2025
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Cologne Pride is a joint demonstration of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, pansexuals, trans people, and intersex people, as well as their friends and all those who support them. Our goal remains unrestricted social recognition!
Cologne Pride also expresses self-confidence and joie de vivre. The fact that we appear and illustrate together is what makes Cologne Pride a triumph, a strength, and a political and social impact.
On the one hand, it commemorates the events on Christopher Street in 1969, and on the other, it looks forward to continuing to demonstrate for the equal rights, acceptance, and social recognition of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transsexuals, transgender people, and intersex people.
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You understand 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 unbiased proudly fly the flag that represents these principles. 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 Avenue Day street fair, with a demo-parade through the city centre of Cologne. It’s the biggest identity festival parade in Europe. About 1.2 million guests had been able to experience last in 2023 over 220 foot groups and demo cars.
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ColognePride 2025
21. Juni 2025 - 06. July 2025
ColognePride is the joint demonstration of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, pansexuals, transsexuals, transgenders and intersexuals as well as their friends and all those who support them.
Our aim remains full social recognition!
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But ColognePride also expresses self-confidence and joie de vivre. The proof that we appear and demonstrate together is what makes the CSD in Cologne so successful, so strong, and so politically and socially effective.
On the one hand, in remembrance of the events on Christopher Street in 1969, on the other hand, looking forward to sustain to demonstrate for same rights, acceptance and social recognition of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transsexuals, transgenders and intersexuals.
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"The recognition of the inherent dignity and of the like and inalienable rights of all members of the human community [forms] the basis of freedom, justice and peace in the world..." reads the preamble to the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
In the LGBTIQ* community, we experience that these human rights are denied or disputed in whole or in
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The CSD Köln / ColognePride says “Thank You!”
Two weeks of ColognePride with politics, partying, and culture was only the successful prelude to a CSD weekend, the likes of which Cologne had never experienced before.
Under a gloriously cobalt sky and pure sunshine, hundreds of thousands people poured into the CSD street festival on the city squares in Cologne’s Old Town, danced their feet off on the stage in front of city hall, enjoyed political discussions and cabaret at the Alte Markt [Old Market], cheered for first-rate artists and the opening show, and rejoiced during the “Candles against Forgetting” memorial service and during the closing ceremony at the Heumarkt [Haymarket].
The parade captivated the crowd as well: high-heeled transvestites, manly leather-clad types, floats, and countless social and political activist groups made their way from Deutzer Bridge through downtown Cologne, stopping just concise of the cathedral.
The political slogan of this year’s CSD/ColognePride festival (“100% North Rhine-Westphalia – Only with us!) establish particular and unexpected resonance: nearly all of the parade participa
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