My Reflection on the Christopher Street Day 2019 in Munich

Friends of mine were at the neighborhood to watch the CSD2019 Parade in Munich. For a straight girl like me but a confessed gay girl by spirit and heart (wink, wink), I (together with my husband) did not hesitate to join them and also because it was just literally a few steps outside our gate.

As expected, it was indeed colorful, fun, jolly, and full of spirit. It is never boring when you are with the LGBTQ community. However, amidst all the glitter, the pride, the rainbow colors, the street dancing, the very friendly strangers, the bright and liberate costumes – it was indeed a political movement. It was a clamour to fight for continuous diversity and inclusion, that love has no boundaries and for this years CSD, at least in Munich, I would say that there were a lot of companies and non-LGBTQ organizations joining, in solidarity with our LGBTQ brothers and sisters.

I also noticed during the Pride Month in June, that in Linkedin, there are a lot of companies who incorporated the rainbow colors in thier logos. In my company, I am proud to say that they also hanged the rainbow flag.

Kudos to all sectors of society who took the time to be in solidarity with our LGBTQ fellow men. And I salute the bravery of each lesbians, gays, bis, trans and queers in the world because I can only imagine the difficulty they undergone at the beginning – when they were coming out and fearing about acceptance from their lovedones and family. I mysely, is a proud cousin and friends to my gay and lesbian family members & friends.