- Title: GERMANY: ANNUAL FESTIVAL HELD IN TRIBUTE TO GAYS AND LESBIANS
- Date: 9th July 2001
- Summary: (U5)COLOGNE, GERMANY (JULY 8, 2001) (REUTERS) 1. MV MEN DRESSED AS BRIDES 0.09 2. SCU PLASTIC BREASTS ZOOM OUT MV MAN WITH WINGS AND FEATHERS 0.19 3. MV PERSONS DRESSED AS NUNS AND SCANTILY DRESSED MEN DANCING ALONG SPECTATORS 0.36 4. SLV TRANSVESTITE IN BRIGHT PINK FANCY DRESS COSTUME 0.47 6. MV REVELLERS ON FLOAT; VARIOUS
- Embargoed: 24th July 2001 13:00
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- Location: COLOGNE, GERMANY
- Country: Germany
- Reuters ID: LVAEJ74QLC1HZQZV7R0X0W573SOH
- Story Text: About 600,000 people attended Cologne's Christopher
Street Day festival, an annual tribute to gay and lesbians
that attracts homosexuals from around the world.
About 125 colourful floats wove their way down a 4.5
kilometer route in Cologne's old city on Sunday (July 8).
Actors, musicians, artists and some prominent politicians
joined the demonstration along the way.
The parade, an annual event in Cologne since 1989, is the
biggest gay and lesbian event in Germany.
The city administration estimates 10 percent of the city's
residents are gay.
"Gays have established themselves in Germany and
especially in Cologne and this is a representation of what we
have achieved," said Oliver Wendt, a spectator at the event.
"It's normal, and nothing spectacular anymore."
The Christopher Street Day traces its roots to New York
City where police and homosexuals clashed in 1969.
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