News around the CSD Leipzig
2. CSD Leipzig Award for Queer Commitment awarded
This year, for the second time, we as the organising team are awarding the CSD Leipzig Award for Queer Commitment for special services to the queer community in Leipzig and the CSD. After two award winners – one person and one organisation – were chosen at the first award ceremony last year on the occasion…
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Offers for people with mobility impairments
This year, there will again be demo vehicles to enable older people as well as people with mobility impairments to participate in an uncomplicated, barrier-free way. We are particularly pleased that our partner, the Leipzig Group – more precisely, the Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe – is making its rainbow bus available this year and joining our demo.…
CSD ambassadors 2023
There are only a few weeks left until the CSD Leipzig 2023 starts. So it’s high time to introduce you to this year’s ambassadors! We are very happy that we could win Barbara Wallbraun and Lucas Krzikalla, two people from the Leipzig community for the CSD Leipzig and this special role. We are especially pleased…
Icon of CSD Leipzig – Drag Contest
We call for the new Drag Contest “Icon of CSD Leipzig”! Drag is always right on the pulse of time, is constantly changing and produces real icons that enrich the world with their brilliance. Therefore, the CSD Leipzig also wants to give its Drag Contest an update. The name is new, the format as well!…
Update on the foundation of the association
A few weeks ago we informed you here about the newly founded CSD association. Now there is news! The founding of the CSD Leipzig e.V. (registered association) and the corresponding further steps are completed and the association is now capable of acting, so that we can now also accept further members. An association lives from…
International Women’s Day
Today, March 08, we celebrate International Women’s Day. This has a long history and is primarily intended to remind us that women and non-binary people have fewer privileges in their daily lives than men. International Women’s Day originated in the United States. There, from the mid-19th century to the 20th century, women textile workers protested…
Transgender Day of Visibility
This post contains descriptions of experiences of violence and discrimination. Please be mindful if this may be problematic for you. Today is Transgender Day of Visibility, the day of visibility for trans people. When one’s gender, as determined by external sex characteristics, does not match one’s self-perceived gender, it is referred to as trans, transgender,…
Study on experiences of discrimination in Saxony published
With a survey conducted from 2019 to 2021, the German Center for Integration and Migration Research DeZIM e.V., on behalf of the Saxon State Ministry of Justice and for Democracy, Europe and Equality (SMJusDEG), addressed the question of what experiences people in Saxony have had with discrimination. The study looks at a wide variety of…
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“Incurably Queer?” – Survey on anti-queer attitudes in Germany
We need your support – it’s about queerphobia. More precisely: about anti-queer attitudes in Germany. Mosaik Deutschland e.V. would like to hear from as many queer people as possible about the forms of queer hostility they have experienced: in the survey “Incurably queer – Experiences with anti-queer attitudes in Germany.” The central concern of this…
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“CSD Leipzig 2023 – The future is queer!” – focus and motto 2023
In 2023, the CSD Leipzig will be held under the motto “The future is queer! Queer people are still exposed to hate and violence in many places. We fight for a future in which we no longer have to hide. A future in which we can live free of fear and with equal rights!
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Commemoration of the victims of National Socialism
This post contains descriptions of experiences of violence and discrimination. Please be mindful if this may be problematic for you. Today, January 27, we remember the victims of National Socialism. In particular, we want to remember those individuals who were persecuted, arrested, and murdered because of their queer identity. Research and education about the queer…
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CSD Leipzig e.V. founded
On Friday, January 6, 2023, more than 20 representatives of the Leipzig community came together to found the CSD Leipzig e.V.. Christopher Street Day Leipzig (CSD Leipzig) has existed since 1992 and celebrated its 30th birthday last year. The colorful event week has been organized for many years by a volunteer organization team with the…
Greetings of our ambassadors
This year we celebrate 30 years of CSD Leipzig and therefore we are supported by three ambassadors who are committed to the queer community in very different ways and represent the diversity of our community. Our ambassadors will also be present at our demonstration on 16.07.2022 on Augustusplatz. (The greetings were translated from German) Peter…
Contact Person for LGBTI* at Leipzig Public Prosecutor’s Office
The Public Prosecutor’s Office of Leipzig (Staatsanwaltschaft Leipzig) now has a contact person for queer people. Since February 1st you can contact Mareen Klenke via: E-Mail: gemeinsam-gegen-hass@stal.justiz.sachsen.de phone: +49 341 2136 183
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