Comunità LGBTQ+ in Germania Rally contro l’ascesa di Far destra in vista delle elezioni | Germania
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/21/lgbtq-community-in-germany-rally-against-rise-of-far-right-ahead-of-elections
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Comunità LGBTQ+ in Germania Rally contro l’ascesa di Far destra in vista delle elezioni | Germania
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/21/lgbtq-community-in-germany-rally-against-rise-of-far-right-ahead-of-elections
di prinoxy
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More power to them
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Well I’m sure this will convince people to stop voting for AfD..
Better than this only an Islam rally demanding sharia law.
Oh no! Anyway
*looks at comments*
And people wonder why this gets called a right wing sub.
That community is a very noisy minority. Normal people are tired of them.
From the polling I have seen, there is a higher level
of support from the LBG community for AfD than in the general population.
That won’t be the Guardian’s take on it.
Nobody cares about the LGBTQ anymore, the country is being “invaded” so there’s more pressing matters. Sad thing is these people are the first ones to be targeted once islam gets a foothold.
Who cares about the opinion of the LGBTQ community, at this point? Their disproportionate bickering for representation in society has creaated this far-right countermovement we see pop up all over the world today. I hate to say it, but I’m afraid that aligning your party with LGBTQ will actually create more support for AfD.
They need to march for more immigration restrictions. It’s the one issue that’s a winner for AfD. If the AfD gets any power, LGBT loses.
Nowadays most people hate LGBTQ more than actual far-right-hate, it seems.
It’s truly bizarre how much hate there is for LGBTQ people.
This sub is anti-Islam and anti-LGBT… summary of Eur🤡pe
They may rally all they want. Yet only a change to realism will help reduce voters of AfD.
Unfortunately, when war arrives, most of these will hide behind “heterosexual cis males with toxic masculinity traits and patriarchal traditional values”. Your damn agendas ruined pop culture and probably turned a lot of people far right. Who knows, maybe Putin also gave money to the LGBTIQ, just as he finances the far-right parties.
This is the kind of shit that only puts gasoline on fire. Clearly they don’t understand the consequences of ideologies being pushed too far. Don’t have any problem with gay people at all but PC / Woke bullshit has been pushed far and too aggressively in the last 15 years to the point where it created it’s antithesis with these far right populist russian puppet parties. It’s like a pendulum. You pull it to one side it will swing back to the other one.
Community grapples with fear over ‘proliferation and normalisation of anti-queer and anti-trans sentiment in politics and the media’
They poured on to streets across [Germany](https://www.theguardian.com/world/germany) by the thousands, waving rainbow flags and signs that read “Choose Love”. Days before an election in which the far right is expected to catapult into second place in Germany’s parliament, the simultaneous rallies in 50 municipalities were billed as a show of strength by an LGBTQ+ community as people braced for what might lie ahead.
“Many queer people are unsettled by the social and political situation,” the organisers of the mid-February, cross-country initiative wrote on [their website](https://www.waehl-liebe.de/). “The tone against us is getting harsher, and liberal democracy is under pressure.”
For years, rights campaigners have come up against the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) and [its opposition](https://www.politico.eu/article/germanys-afd-threatens-law-suit-over-gay-marriage/) to marriage equality, safe community spaces and access to healthcare and reproductive justice.
Sunday’s election, however, could leave the LGBTQ+ community grappling with an intensified challenge as polls suggest support for the AfD is set to double, yielding a result that would be unprecedented in the country’s postwar history.
Alva Träbert, a board member of Germany’s LGBTQ+ umbrella group LSVD and Federation Queer Diversity, said: “We are looking at political actors openly including anti-queer and anti-trans policy in their campaigns as part of a larger effort to scapegoat marginalised groups for bigger social issues, while simultaneously legitimising discrimination and hate towards them.”
The AfD’s manifesto for the upcoming election defines family as a “father, mother and children”, to the exclusion of all other forms of families. It calls for minors to be protected from what it describes as “the trans cult, early sexualisation and gender ideology”.
In recent years, as [support has surged](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/20/all-eyes-on-far-right-afd-in-german-election-rocked-by-violence-and-us-interference) for the far right, the impact has been palpable: campaigners said they were aware of at least 26 attacks by far-right protesters on Pride marches last year. Träbert said in an email: “As heartbreaking and frightening as this development is, it is an unsurprising consequence of the proliferation and normalisation of anti-queer and anti-trans sentiment in politics and the media. We know this from our history: violence begins with words – and words become actions.”
Träbert said that as the community had grappled with fear and uncertainty, it had been met with love and support from some quarters, with people travelling across Germany to attend Pride events in person, and others becoming activists for the first time.
In the lead-up to Sunday’s elections, [polls suggest](https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/feb/20/german-election-2025-opinion-poll-tracker-bundestag-chancellor) the conservative CDU-CSU bloc could emerge as the most-voted party, with about 28% of the vote, followed by the AfD.
The intransigence of LGBTQ+ communities is one of the reasons the rights is growing everywhere.
Neither CDU nor AfD are “far”-right. They are simply right.
Good. For ALL of us.
And if you dont like this you are part of the problem.
Yeah, and 30% of homosexuals are voting AfD according to a recent poll. As bad as the party is in parts, they know where the real danger comes from.
And I wish people would just use the acronym LGB. Cause every letter that follows is a figment of imagination and pseudo-scientific nonsense.
Estas manifestações só vão ajudar a extrema direita a crescer.. Pena que o pessoal lgbt etc nunca perceba isso. Eu gostava de poder viver sem fascismo e sem nazismo.
O cidadão comum vota de acordo com a mesquinhez e ódio que sente.. Não vota de acordo com paixões, projectos ou liberdades.. Vota de acordo com as coisas que despreza.
Is this comment section per chance infected by Russian trolls pushing their talking points?
AfD is a fascist party and shouldn’t be allowed anywhere close to government.