{"id":7673,"date":"2026-07-12T13:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T11:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rcbrs.de\/2026\/07\/12\/pride-in-cologne\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T13:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T11:06:17","slug":"pride-in-cologne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rcbrs.de\/en\/2026\/07\/12\/pride-in-cologne\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride in Cologne"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>DIVERSITY is written in capital letters in rugby<\/h1>\n<p>Last weekend, this year&#8217;s street festival for Christopher Street Day (CSD) took place in Cologne. Cologne Pride has been organizing Europe&#8217;s largest CSD for many years, and as every year, the demo parade on Sunday formed the grand finale. Among the 1.5 million demonstrators were also members of RCBRS.  <\/p>\n<p>The six Bonners joined RSV Cologne and their Cologne Crushers and fought together for human rights and visibility of the LGBTQIA* community instead of against each other on the rugby pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Around 1:30 PM, the walking group behind float number 74 (out of 225!) set off and followed the demo parade across the Deutzer Bridge along Neumarkt and Heumarkt towards Cologne Cathedral. With lineouts and passing games, the walking group generated cheers and attention from the bystanders. <\/p>\n<p>Many positive impressions were gathered, connections made, and RCBRS proudly represented. Once again, we were able to show as a club what rugby stands for in our eyes: diversity, tolerance, and openness. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Text &#038; Photos: Fabienne Stock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DIVERSITY is written in capital letters in rugby Last weekend, this year&#8217;s street festival for Christopher Street Day (CSD) took place in Cologne. Cologne Pride has been organizing Europe&#8217;s largest CSD for many years, and as every year, the demo parade on Sunday formed the grand finale. Among the 1.5 million demonstrators were also members&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-socials-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcbrs.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcbrs.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcbrs.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcbrs.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcbrs.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rcbrs.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcbrs.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcbrs.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcbrs.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcbrs.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}