The story
Berlin Pride in Berlin
Berlin's Christopher Street Day traces back to a march of 450 people on 30 June 1979, making it one of continental Europe's earliest Pride events. It has grown into a mass parade moving from Mitte through Schoneberg to a finale in front of the Brandenburg Gate, with trucks representing clubs, community groups and organisations and crowds numbering in the hundreds of thousands lining the route.
Four hundred and fifty demonstrators marched under the slogan 'Gay Pride' through West Berlin on 30 June 1979, in what became the city's first Christopher Street Day, held in memory of the 1969 Stonewall uprising in New York's Christopher Street.