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No more open air Street Parade bars
Another great merit of Zurich's police minister Mrs. Esther Maurer: After the city population had to suffer one month from European Football Championships she and the city council decided that the Street Parade has to pay the bill. Also a petition with 5500 signatures could not change her mind: the bars in Zurich will not get a permission for outdoor music anymore. This means the end of the last gay part of the parade since there is no gay love mobile for years and only the bars Cranberry, Lobby and Odeon still celebrated the love of the parade.
The official reason is the increasing amount of drunken kids and violence due to alcohol abuse. Of course we know that the kids drink tons of Vodka at the parade. It's not worse than at every other street fair but much worse than the parades 5 years ago where thousands were just peacefully flying on XTC.
The repressive anti-drug campaign of Zurichs police against the party scene and everyone who preferred to enjoy a happy pill instead of legal alcohol made the change. The times of love and ecstasy have gone. Now everyone enjoys alcohol and aggression. The ban on outdoor music bars will not change anything. The Vodka kids never bought their bottles at a bar.
Congratulations to our government! After 12 years celebrating love and happiness we're going to leave Zurich this year and travel to a hopefully better place... Barcelona!
Anyhow - if you come to Zurich for Street Parade, forget illegal love, enjoy legal hate and make sure you got a ticket for a gay party at night!