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Between soap bubbles:
Because of the corona pandemic, the Pride Parade in Zurich has only taken place on a small scale in recent years.
This year the event returned to its usual size.
Thousands marched through the streets of the city in Switzerland.
Her motto this year: »trans – living diversity«.
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Shielded:
The participants in the Pride parade in Zurich demanded that trans people should be perceived as human beings and not reduced to being trans.
The organizers spoke of a record number: According to their information, 40,000 people took to the streets this year.
Photo: Arnd Wiegmann / REUTERS
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Having rights:
In Cyprus, communities and organizations from across the island have come together for the first time and organized a Pride parade together.
In the divided capital Nicosia in the buffer zone of the United Nations, the participants celebrated and demonstrated for their rights.
"Gay rights are human rights," reads this participant's poster.
Photo: Birol Bebek / AFP
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Dog Days:
In Berlin, hundreds celebrated at the "Marzahn Pride".
Some participants wore fetish masks.
On the fringes of the event, homophobic incidents were observed.
According to a report by RBB, a man in a dress and heels was insulted and spat on.
Photo: Christian Mang / REUTERS
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Out and about with unicorns:
Hundreds of people demonstrated at the »Marzahn Pride« for more queer visibility.
The parade took place for the third time this year.
The focus this time was also the war in Ukraine.
Photo: CHRISTIAN MANG / REUTERS
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Making a wave:
Thousands of people took part in the Pride parade in the Greek capital Athens.
Under the motto "Unconditionally", the participants demanded equality in legal and social terms, including in marriage and the family.
Photo: Aristidis Vafeiadakis / IMAGO/ZUMA Wire
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Step forward:
In Athens, politicians also took part in the Gay Pride parade.
The country has recently taken some important steps forward.
The ban on donating blood was recently lifted.
In addition, so-called healing therapies for homosexuals are now prohibited without exception.
There is resistance from the Orthodox Church against efforts to enforce marriage for all.
Photo: IMAGO/Aristidis Vafeiadakis/IMAGO/ZUMA Wire
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Record number:
"Record, we are 150,000" - that's what the organizers of the Pride parade in Turin announced this weekend.
One of them was Mayor Stefano Lo Russo.
Participation is mandatory for him, he told the Italian media.
It was the first Pride parade since he took office.
He emphasized that the event was a party that served "to demand those rights that are denied in our country."
Photo: IMAGO/Alessandro Di Marco / IMAGO/ZUMA Wire
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Heroic:
Stonewall Pride is celebrated in Wilton Manors, USA.
The background to the name is the Stonewall riots - a series of violent conflicts between homosexuals and transsexuals and police officers in New York.
At the time, raids were taking place in the Stonewall bar.
The event is seen by the LGBT community as a turning point in their fight for equal treatment and recognition, as it was the first time a large group of homosexuals resisted arrest.
Photo: Lynne Sladky/AP
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Ready to say:
In several conservative US states, the LGBTQ+ community is increasingly restricted in its rights.
In Florida, for several months now, the so-called "Don't say gay" law has banned teachers and students from discussing sexual orientation - words like gay, bi, lesbian or trans are not allowed to be said.
A participant in the Stonewall Pride parade criticized this law with the sticker.
"We say homosexual," it says.
Photo: Lynne Sladky/AP
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For love:
In the Latvian capital of Riga, thousands of people demonstrated for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people.
The participants in the Riga Pride Parade, some of whom were dressed in colorful costumes, called for more tolerance and equality in the Baltic EU country on Saturday.
Also on display were Ukrainian flags and placards expressing solidarity with Ukraine under attack from Russia.
Photo: Toms Kalnins/EPA
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Being human:
The Gay Pride parade in Riga was accompanied by small counter-protests.
Unlike at previous events, there were no incidents.
Homosexuality is still often a taboo subject in Latvia and is met with hostility.
According to the police, around 5,000 people took part in the "March for Freedom" through the city center, which was secured by a large contingent of emergency services.
Photo: Toms Kalnins/EPA
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Show your colors:
A gay pride parade was also celebrated in the Bulgarian capital Sofia on Saturday.
Under the motto "To be proud," hundreds of people gathered for a pop concert in front of the monument to the former Soviet Red Army, and in the evening there was to be a street parade.
Same-sex marriages are not allowed in the EU country, and it also does not want to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating gender-based violence.
The Orthodox Church condemned the 15th edition of the Gay Pride March.
Nationalist groups campaigned for "traditional Christian marriage" at two rallies in Sofia.
Photo: Nikolay Doychinov / AFP
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