In 2011 Munich will be having a Christina Street Day

Fortunately for the Munich CSD operators, that the famous 'Christopher Street' in New York - named after the first name of the eponym Charles Christopher Amos - the starting point of the revolts gays and lesbians against police brutality in 1969. Otherwise it would probably be this year in Munich for the first time a 'Amosia Street Day'.

As every year, also this year of 2 to 10 July in Munich instead of the CSD. Highlights here are safe again the two-day street festival (July 9 and 10) around the Munich Town Hall and the Parade and the great hall-Clubbing (both on 9 July). This year's theme is 'Working together for all of us' to express that to participate in the CSD long lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and reflect the thoughts in their own scene would. "Because only together can we represent diversity, and we can credibly be used for equality. Those who think the only person responsible for the group, was planning to use their own minority has the community thought not understand or reproduce even themselves experienced discrimination mechanisms believes that" the CSD spokeswoman Rita Braaz.

The 'Christopher Steet Day (CSD) - parades' found in most cities around the world to commemorate the uprising of gays and lesbians in Stonewall place in 1969. However, the CSD in Munich this time not for the Christopher Street, the site of riots in 1969, but the first time called 'CSD Christopher Street Day'. Then, the Munich organizers-makers and organizations involved 'in a broad consensus "agreed. After all, the CSD parade in Munich were held for years, the media reports, however it still has a 'Gay Pride', the pull of the 'gay quarter', for example, says Thomas Niederbühl, political CSD spokesman, Councillor of the Pink List. He sees this as a 'symptomatic societal ignorance about lesbians'. Also in the partnering, which is open to lesbians and gay men, will still talk of 'gay marriage'. Niederbühl therefore wants to create with the name change to Christina Street Day 'confusion, attention and discussion', after all, it related to the equal visibility, perception and participation in urban society.

The New Yorker 'Christopher Street' is named after Charles Christopher Amos, the then owner of the property that contains the street named after him. In that Mr. Amos have been a transgender and is said to have changed his name from Christopher to Christina, but nothing is known. Fortunately, only for the Munich CSD operators that the road just 'only' Christopher Street and Amos Street is not. There might otherwise this year in Munich a 'Amosia-Street-Day'. Whether Mr. Niederbühl and the operators / inside the CSD Munich will thus in fact the expected 'attention and discussion' or so will provide a more 'head shaking and Unverständis' remains to be seen.

Source: Gaywien.at