Berlin Pride

The Berliner CSD e.V. has launched its 2026 campaign under the motto “Haltung ist hot” (taking a stand is hot). This year’s Pride message is clear and based on our project research, the same is true about inclusive language in adult education: a stand needs real support behind it, from institutions and civil society alike.

This year Berlin Pride runs across two days for the first time. A Democracy Night opens it at the Brandenburg Gate on Friday 24 July, and the main demonstration follows on Saturday 25 July. The campaign ties the weekend to Berlin’s 2026 election and to a demand for an open, democratic society. It states that this open society needs to be actively defended, and that the structures protecting queer life cannot keep running on individual goodwill alone. They have to be funded and backed by institutions.

Through the research phase of our project, we asked how inclusive language for LGBTQIA+ migrants is understood and used in adult education. Across desk research, focus groups and interviews, the same pattern occurred: where inclusive language works in a classroom, it usually works because of a trainer who read up on it and decided it mattered, not because of structured support or institutional backing. So this year’s Pride motto is telling. “Haltung (taking a stand)“ is the place to start. The work of building inclusive classrooms and spaces has to happen with the support of institutions. This means putting inclusive language into their curricula, training the staff who deliver it, giving them tools they can use, and considering the diverse lived experience of LGBTQIA+ migrants.

This is what the handbook is built to do. It creates a shared practice of agreed terminology, classroom activities a trainer can pick up and run, and guidance an organisation can adopt as its own. It gives a committed educator something to stand on, and it gives their institution a concrete way to support them.

Pride asks people to take a stand, and Go Inclusive gives adult education a way to make that stand hold.

Source: Berliner CSD e.V., csd-berlin.de/kampagne

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