Lesbian-Gay City Festival Berlin (Motzstraßenfest) — Edition 2025

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19 Jul 2025 — 20 Jul 2025 Finished Free

Overview

The 31st edition of the Lesbian-Gay City Festival Berlin took place on July 19th and 20th, 2025, in Berlin-Schöneberg around Nollendorfplatz. Six stages, six festival worlds, 20,000 m² of festival grounds, and around 500,000 visitors characterized Europe's largest queer street festival. Free admission, awareness concepts on site.

31st City Festival 2025 — Successful Prelude to the Anniversary Edition

On the weekend of July 19th and 20th, 2025, the Rainbow Quarter in Berlin-Schöneberg once again transformed into Europe's largest queer street festival. On the 20,000 m² festival grounds around Nollendorfplatz — along Motzstraße, Eisenacher Straße, Fuggerstraße, and Kalckreuthstraße — around 500,000 visitors gathered. Six stages — from Main Stage A to the KISS-FM Stage, the FLINTA* Stage, SUNSHINE LIVE, and QUEER MEDIA to the BOXER Stage — provided a dense program of live concerts, DJ sets, ballroom performances, and cabaret between 11:00 AM and 11:00 PM (Saturday) and 9:00 PM (Sunday). The six festival worlds — Film, Politics, Health, Sports, FLINTA* Visibility, and Fetish — offered information, counseling, and community meeting points alongside the stage program. As always, organizer Regenbogenfonds der Schwulen Wirte e.V. combined the festival with its anti-violence profile and a clear political mission — a prelude to Berlin Pride Week, which culminated with CSD a week later.

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