A huge range of different gay events takes place in Germany all year round.
From the CSD days in mayor cities , special events like Gay Games to the hard leather prides weekends .
Smaller gay-events are mostly for locals .
Germany's Gay & Lesbian culture is legendary .
Especially Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne and Frankfurt, have thriving gay scenes.
The small atmospheric gaybars in Germany are smoking bars execpt when the sell food .

Christopher-Street-Day
Gay Prides in Germany are named CSD :Christopher-Street-Day .
CSD is the annual European LGBT celebration in various cities in Germany.
The name comes from the New York's Christopher Street in Greenwich Village where on June 28, 1969 a police assaults against gays .
The first CSD was in Bremen and Berlin in 1979.
(beside a small version in Münster in April 1972) .
There are now 37 CSD days in Germany .