The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. July 24, 2017 Germany: Thousands March in Berlin for Annual LGBT March -------------------------------------------------------- In Germany, thousands of people marched Saturday in Berlin for the Christopher Street Day parade for LGBT rights. The annual march commemorates the 1969 Stonewall riot in New York City, when transgender people of color fought back against a police raid of Manhattan's Stonewall Inn, launching the modern gay and lesbian rights movement. .