The current world situation is threatening: fascism is on the rise again, wars are escalating, and our hard-won rights are shaking worldwide.
Here in Germany, the queer community is targeted too. 
But for the established parties, from the CDU to the Greens, we are just voting livestock—while they push for more austerity measures, surveillance and repression tools, and laws to exploit and discriminate, they enable the rise of the AfD, a party that makes no secret of its racist and patriatchal family ideals, deportation plans, and violent fantasies against queer people, migrants, and workers.
And what is the official CSD doing about all that? It offers a stage to transphobic parties, like the FDP and CSU, who want to draft trans* women as male soldiers and keep registries for trans* people like in Nazi times. It cooperates with homophobic pharmaceutical corporations like Gilead, which put profits over the lives of people living with HIV, controlling prices and abandoning millions who can’t afford it to their fate. It flirts with politicians, despite the brutal social cuts on child support that are currently threatening rainbow families. It pushes queer refugees and their struggle to the margins. It invites zionist groups, like Be’er sheva Munich Queer, and excludes palestinian solidarity groups.
Clearly, that is not our Pride!

Pride was the angry and revolutionary outcry of the queer community;of trans* people, BiPOCs, and queer workers against state violence and persecution.

And it still is.

We will stand together against a system that pushes us into misery and death, against institutions that want to drown our pain and anger in the most expensive cocktails to distract us, against a state that corners queer life and does not protect it at all.

Enough pinkwashing exploitation and murderous politics! Let us seize the streets, together, for a political Pride of solidarity, where no one is left behind, where our community is empowered and where our demands for justice and liberation take center stage.

Come to People’s Pride—in the queer struggle for liberation!
18th of July, 4PM at Gärtnerplatz