The Equality March was the opening of the two-day-long Pride Festival in Luxembourg’s southern city.
The goal of the march is to increase the visibility of people outside of the heterosexual norm and those not identifying with their given genders. The so-called queer community is therefore extremely diverse, but what connects people is the desire for tolerance and acceptance.
Organiser Andy Maar provided insight into the areas that are still in need of improvement and proposed concrete changes: “We want automatic recognition of same-sex couples, the preservation of queer safe spaces, and a prohibition of non-medically required surgeries of intersex people without their consent.”
Although not everybody is familiar with terms like pride, LGBTQ, or queer, the desire to feel accepted should be a universal issue, the organisers further highlighted on Saturday.
