Same- sex lights for gay parade

TRAFFIC lights in a city of will be decked out with images of same- sex couples for an annual celebration of the LGBTQ community.

The design idea is part of Christopher Street Day or Gay Pride, which takes place over three days in Cologne at the beginning of July.

City officials said the move was to mark 50 years since a series of violent confrontations between police and gay rights activists in New York, known as the Stonewall uprising. That began in June 28th, 1969, outside the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village.

The lights will be installed in Cologne’s Heumarkt, where the Pride parade will pass through. The classic green and red men will be replaced by the same- sex pairs of women and men.