Internationalist Queer Pride

About IQPB

Internationalist Queer Pride Berlin: For anticolonial, antiracist, anticapitalist liberation.

Internationalist Queer Pride Berlin: For the anticolonial, antiracist, anticapitalist struggle for freedom.

Internationalist Queer Pride Berlin: For anticolonial, antiracist, and anticapitalist liberation

Internationalist Queer Pride Berlin (IQPB) stands for anticolonial, antiracist, and anticapitalist liberation.

Bound by solidarity and shared resistance against every system that colonizes, exploits, controls, erases, and disciplines our lives, IQPB is an organized activist group that builds community and mobilizes like-minded individuals and collectives for an annual queer Pride demonstration. We fight for a world free from oppression, where sexualities, gender expressions, and identities are lived freely, boldly, and without fear, shame, or permission. 

Guided by this commitment, we organize a radical queer, femme-, and trans-led political protest that brings our bodies, voices, and struggles into the streets to build collective power and demand real change. In the face of war and ongoing genocides, hate, and rising fascism, we choose empathy, care, and revolutionary love, determined not only to survive but to thrive and flourish. Together, we declare: “None of us are free until all of us are free!”

IQPB recognizes that no struggle exists in isolation—this is our foundation, our compass, and our method. Systems of oppression are interconnected, adapting and reasserting themselves across borders, institutions, histories, and bodies. Colonialism, imperialism, racism, patriarchy, (trans)misogyny, homophobia, ableism, ecocide—these forces do not operate separately; they converge, reinforce one another, and seek to dictate the conditions of our lives.

IQPB centers the experiences, knowledge, and resistance of marginalized communities and those in the Global Majority, demanding justice and dignity for those whose labor, ideas, lands, bodies, minds, cultures, and futures have been—and continue to be—exploited, violated, and discarded through hegemonic structures rooted in the Global North. Without justice, there can be no peace, and we will not rest until it is won.

IQPB is unapologetically anti-capitalist. We have been bled dry, worked to exhaustion to line the pockets of billionaires, while inequality reaches unprecedented and obscene levels. The same capitalist system continues to drive the planet toward ecological collapse, while those most affected by extractivism and the impacts of the climate crisis are, once again, communities of the Global Majority. Enough. Class analysis and class struggle are not secondary concerns. They run through every fight, every movement, every act of resistance. We cannot and will not wait for the ruling classes to deliver justice. Liberation is not merely an aspirational proximity to power. It is a complete uprooting of a system that is rotten to the core. It is insurgent, and it will not trickle down. It must be seized.

Our demands begin with the real, material needs of our communities—regardless of economic status or skin color—especially our disabled, intersex, and trans siblings, whose right to and access for social, medical, and mental health care, as well as legal support, must be unquestionable and inalienable, never up for debate. We fight for an equitable world in which we can afford housing, access healthcare, and live with dignity through our labor. A world where life expectancy is not determined by income; where survival is not a privilege reserved for a few; where sex work is afforded the same dignity and protection as any other labor; where everyone pays their fair share, and where a credit rating does not decide who lives and who dies. They call it a fantasy; we call it inevitable. This is not extremism. It is revolt. It is common sense put into action. It is our right—and we will claim it.

We categorically refuse to let our queer identities be exploited to justify, defend, or fund necropolitical agendas of never-ending military interventions. Pinkwashing is not liberation—it is deadly propaganda, plain and simple. We reject any attempt to trade our lives and struggles for the legitimacy of murderous, criminal states that are engaged in obliterating the principles of so-called international law with impunity and gleeful brutality. Self-determination and self-defense are non-negotiable, and we will assert them tooth and nail.

In Germany, these demands must be all the more loud and urgent, where—shameless in their complicity—state oppression and police violence brazenly collude with support for genocidal governments, apartheid, and border regimes, actively enabling destruction and atrocities on a massive scale. A state that weaponizes selective historical memory, appointing itself as the arbiter of whose lives matter and who is permitted to grieve. Our liberation will not—and cannot—ever be complicit in its crimes. 

Even as we recognize the mobilizing potential of digital technologies, we reject over-reliance on algorithmic domination. No social media post, no hashtag, no viral campaign can replace the power of bodies together—arm in arm, shoulder to shoulder. To paraphrase Black lesbian, mother, warrior, and poet Audre Lorde, the tools devised, developed, and controlled by our techno-feudal overlords—often without any meaningful public or legal oversight—will never enable us to topple their tax-haven-funded mansions, fortified castles, and militarized borders.

IQPB is a living, breathing force, not a fleeting moment on a calendar. We strive to put our principles and values into practice year-round. Our mission is clear: to forge spaces of trust and connection where all queer people can come together to organize and build movements that outlast any single event. Together, we are many, united by purpose and driven not by the self-interested, transactional logic of liberal allyship, but by comradeship as a living expression of political belonging and mutual commitment.

In bringing together diverse struggles, we acknowledge contradictions. This also means making mistakes and learning from them, unlearning our own assumptions, and holding ourselves accountable. Only by remaining critical of all institutions—including the structures of which we are a part—can we stay grounded and politically vigilant. In the spirit of prison abolition, we move beyond policing and punishment, pushing toward a culture of collective responsibility and restorative care, placing the needs of those affected and harmed front and center.

From the outrageous abandonment of cisheteronormative prescriptions for living to the joyful celebration of bodily autonomy and sex positivity; from collective resistance to every wall and cage designed to contain us to the radical tenderness of individual relationships and mutual care, we fiercely affirm that freedom is indivisible and must be seized.

We will not ask for permission. We will create, organize, and act, just as our many forebears, activists, writers, thinkers, artists, and freedom fighters did. We live in the grace of all those who came before us. We stand on their shoulders and will never forget them. With fire in our hearts and steel in our spines, we commit to honoring their courage and vision, and to sharing this world through embodied practices that confront oppression at every intersection and dismantle it at its roots.

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[Berlin, March 2026]