Frankfurt: Anti-Queer Violence in the Rainbow Quarter Rises again

After the right-wing take-up against East German CSDs, the queer event scene prepares for the upcoming Pride season. They hold together to prevent a Bautzen 2.0. So also in Dessau.

Homosexuality and, of course, transsexuality and all other similar forms of sexuality are subject to the death penalty in many strictly Islamist societies. Moderate Mohammedans only impose life imprisonment for this. It is completely unclear what the Volkswagen Foundation is riding to promote a research project for queer Islamic theology with 300,000 euros. It is also enigmatic to ask whether Volkswagen currently has no other concerns. At the Un…

Never before have there been so many organized extreme right-wing demonstrations against CSDs as last year. More violence is expected for the coming season, not only in East Germany. The CSD season has begun. By October, more than 200 events will take place nationwide, most of them in small and medium-sized cities or in rural areas. Source

Queer-enemy violence has increased sharply in Frankfurt. A new data collection explains the increase only partially. Despite efforts to protect the police, the scene is increasingly retreating.

On Saturday the second Stolpersteinlauf takes place in Potsdam. On about 34 kilometers and 76 stumbling blocks the victim of National Socialism is to be remembered and a sign for the future set. By Jakob Lobach

Right-wing extremes in Saxony are increasingly mobilising against Christopher Street Days to demonstrate their queer hostility. Oberlausitz is particularly focused, as the recent publication of the cultural office "Saxony on the lower right 2025" shows.