How a Berlin café’s neon sign welcoming the Queer community became a target for hate

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How a Berlin café’s neon sign welcoming the Queer community became a target for hate  With 45 attacks reported in 18 months, a Berlin LGBTQ+ café meant to be a safe space has become the target of escalating hate crimes.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/07/31/how-a-berlin-cafes-neon-sign-welcoming-the-queer-community-became-a-target-for-hate  Spark your senses, wake your wonder. Euronews Culture seeks to show creativity in action and inspire our audience to explore the world through the five senses. Start your journey through the best of Europe's arts, gastronomy, traditions and high-end craftsmanship.

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00:00As the cafe opened and the lamp came queer in France and it was clear that it would be a queer

00:23Lagerladen wird, fing es halt an mit Übergriffen, mit Kot an den Fenstern, mit Sachen die in

00:29Gegensfenster geworfen wurden oder ins Lokal, verbale Attacken, körperliche Angriffe, Feuerlöcher

00:36in die erste Etage in meinem Büro, Scheibenwicher abgebrochen, Scheiben eingeschlagen, also ein Terrorakt.

00:53What is the impact of queer-feind violence?

01:04The impact of queer-feind violence is also about 40%.

01:09LGBT-IQ-Feindlichkeit has a function in right authoritarian ideologies,

01:15like anti-semitism, sexism and anti-feminism.

01:18Here is exemplarily the increasing action- and violence-orientation

01:24of the very young neo-Nazi-Szene,

01:28which in the past year among other members of Christopher-Street Days and Pride-Parades attacked,

01:34with the aim of fear.

01:43We are many hundreds of thousands and more than in the previous years

01:47and that is really a powerful, great sign for more satisfaction.

01:51I have never seen so many people on the CSD like today

01:54and it is very much,

01:56that so many other sexualities outside the queer-feind scene were there.

02:02to love and people-need it.

02:04It's so wonderful that I've never seen so many people on in the past.

02:06I do not think the single thing is a person on the CSD.

02:07And I don't think any people don't think of as a person.

02:08I am so proud to be here.

02:09I have never seen it,

02:10but I will be very happy about it.

02:11The person that I always saw here,

02:12I miss you so many other people on the CSD.

02:15You

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