Cologne Pride or Cologne Gay Pride (formerly: Christopher Street Day Cologne) is one of the largest gay and lesbian organized event in Germany and one of the biggest in Europe. Its origin is to celebrate the pride in Gay and Lesbian Culture.
Cologne Gay Pride is made of a large city Gay pride parade, and a week of a number of festivals, parties and political forums. The parade and festivals are comparable to carnival celebrations and the political motivation of the event did achieve a lot in equal rights and gay rights.
Cologne Gay Pride takes place annually in Cologne, Germany. Events in recent years had over 1 million participants.
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Famous quotes containing the words cologne and/or pride:
“Ever notice how these European trains always smell of eau de cologne and hard boiled eggs?”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)