Mahide Lein

Mahide Lein (born 1949) is a German LGBTQ+ activist, organiser and head of a concert agency. She has also campaigned for sex workers' rights and with the anti-psychiatric movement.

Biography Lein was born in 1949 in Höchst, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany. She was raised as a Protestant. The café hosted exhibitions, political discussions and concerts. She was also one of the founders of the first lesbian centre in Frankfurt. She was an organiser of the Berlin Christopher Street Day (CSD, Germany and Switzerland's counterpart to pride parades), the anti-psychiatric Tribunals, with 27 one-hour episodes broadcast on the Berliner Kabel station from 1991 to 1993. She has also been interviewed for lesbian documentaries, commenting on "the problems of speaking openly about taboo desires in sexually less tolerant societies" and on queer aging for Vice magazine. She sat on the jury for the queer film prize TEDDY for two decades

Awards at CSD 2004 She was also honoured with an award for her 75th birthday by the Berlin Music Commission.