Rainbow flags, banners and flags everywhere you look.
Music full of vitality and joie de vivre.
The black tubes from which the songs boom wander from hand to hand.
And over and over again applause.
The first Christopher Street Day event (CSD) in Schongau was a real breakout.
Applause breaks out when Soja-Nemo Heißerer picks up the microphone and says what she has to say.
She is nervous, her hands are trembling, and her voice is sometimes tangled.
Does not disturb.
Makes them likable.
Human.
Cheers accompany their words.
A clear signal was set with the motto “Coming out”
The sun is beating down from the sky.
It's hot this Saturday afternoon.
Demonstrating humanity in a world, a country in which minorities are still and in many places, unfortunately, marginalized again - that is what this first Christopher Street Day event (CSD) in Schongau is all about.
Gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transsexuals or just people who want to show solidarity with the movement: they all sent a clear signal last Saturday at the CSD demo under the motto “Coming out”.
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Moved by the great response: CSD co-organizer Soja-Nemo Heißerer.
© Rafael Sala
The train led from Marienplatz over parts of the old town, the school center to Schwanenpark, where the final rally took place and was then taken down.
There will have been around 300 at the end of the event.
Curious looks and a lot of approval
Led by a police car that drives slowly ahead, the train starts moving at the fountain.
Curious glances from passers-by on the sidewalks, most of them express their approval.
One woman seems to know someone from the group that is drawn out in the form of a grape.
“It's great that you're here, it's great that you are doing this,” she exclaims.
Songs are sung.
Songs full of vitality and joie de vivre.
Music thunders from the speakers.
Nobody, it seems, can spoil the good mood.
Against exclusion and homophobia
The message on this first day of the CSD in the city on the Lech is clear.
It reads: against exclusion, homophobia, xenophobia.
For tolerance and human interaction.
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Hanging out in the Schwanenpark: This is where the final rally took place.
© Rafael Sala
"You are fantastic," calls hoterer into the microphone.
She wants a world that is “showered with love”.
But thoughtful words also mingle in their reflections.
It is simply not true that homosexuals are now fully accepted in society, as it is said again and again: “There is still discrimination.” Sadly, this is shown by the fact that many who would have liked to come did not do so .
“For fear of coming out.
Out of fear of their parents. ”It is precisely these“ lateral children ”that deserve full solidarity.
They should have the opportunity to be open about their sexuality - without being looked at crookedly or fear of reprisals.
"You shouldn't have to be ashamed."
Everything that otherwise happened in secret is shown very openly
Applause, whistles, cheers.
The event was literally like a liberation.
Homosexuals who embrace each other openly and go hand in hand during the train, transsexuals in the most colorful clothes, gays in leather clothing, women, girls who kiss, love each other: everything that has to be done secretly for most of them, shielded from the public, in their own four walls, which then resemble a prison - all of this broke out.
All of that had to go.
Foamed over like a river.
“I am glad that you are here, that so many have come,” shouts Hoterer.
It seems like she is struggling to hold back her tears.
RAFAEL SALA
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