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Over 1 million people attended Sunday’s Pride parade in the German city of Cologne, one of the largest LGBTQI celebrations in the country. Around 250 groups with approximately 60,000 participants and 90 floats paraded through the city centre as huge crowds cheered them on. Police deployed several hundred officers to protect the festivities in support of the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex people. Before the start of the parade on the city’s central Deutzer Bridge over the Rhine river, Bundestag President Bärbel Bas, Health Minister Karl Lauterbach and Minister…

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