Stuttgart Events & Festivals

Stuttgart Pride includes sev­er­al dif­fer­ent events. Stuttgart Pride’s most vis­i­ble moments are the parade and polit­i­cal demon­stra­tion on the last Sat­ur­day of July every year. Well over 100 groups march in the parade and thou­sands of peo­ple attend annu­al­ly. While the parade focus­es on polit­i­cal mes­sages, it’s a fam­i­ly-friend­ly event where you can expect upbeat music and plen­ty of stick­ers and can­dy to be hand­ed out. The parade’s route varies but usu­al­ly includes the part of Tübinger Strasse close to the Ger­ber shop­ping cen­ter and fin­ish­es at Schloss­platz with a polit­i­cal rally.

That last Sat­ur­day and Sun­day in July, a wide range of LGTBQIA+ orga­ni­za­tions also set up booths in Schloss­platz and near­by Schiller­platz as part of an infor­ma­tion­al fair. In the weeks before­hand, there are a large num­ber of cul­tur­al and polit­i­cal events around the rights and lives of LGTBQIA+ people.

In Ger­many, Pride cel­e­bra­tions are often known as “CSD” or “Christo­pher Street Day”, recall­ing when mem­bers of the queer com­mu­ni­ty defend­ed them­selves against a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a bar on New York City’s Christo­pher Street, the night of June 27, 1969.

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