Lgbt in Switzerland

Chapters: Lgbt Events in Switzerland, Lgbt People From Switzerland, Lgbt Rights in Switzerland, Swiss Lgbt-Related Films, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Christopher Street Day, Hugues Cuenod, Registered Partnership in Switzerland, Soundless Wind Chime, Pink Apple, Enrique Favez, Heinrich Hossli, Corine Mauch, Renee Schwarzenbach-Wille, Claude Janiak, Pierre Lepori, Alexander Ziegler, Lea Pool, Mano Destra, as Luck Would Have It, Queersicht. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 59. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Members of the Cologne CSD 2006Dancers on a float at the 1998 CSD in BerlinFloat of HUK (an LGBT Christian group) at the 2006 CSD in Berlin"Kiss In" 2006 in BerlinChristopher Street Day (CSD ) is an annual European LGBT celebration held in various cities across Europe. Only Germany and Switzerland use the term CSD, in other countries, the same kind of event is called Gay Pride or Pride Parade. Austria calls their Pride Parade Rainbow Parade . The most prominent CSD events are in Madrid, Spain, Cologne and Berlin, Germany, and Zurich in Switzerland .CSD History The CSD is held in memory of the first big uprising of homosexuals against police assaults that took place in New York 's Christopher Street in Greenwich Village on June 28, 1969. The so-called Stonewall Riots took place in the bar Stonewall Inn .New York has celebrated the Christopher Street Liberation Day on the last Saturday of each June since 1970. The first German CSDs took place in Bremen and Berlin in 1979. Other parades before 1979 still had different names. The first documented LGBT parade in Germany was in Munster in April 1972. The first parade in Switzerland was celebrated on June 24, 1978 in Zurich and was called "Christopher-Street-Liberation-Memorial Day."CSD Today Almost every large town in Germany celebrates CSD. Due to organizational reaso...