Berlin Pride Attracts Tens Of Thousands, Croatia Pride Parade Proceeds Under Police Protection, Axel Hotel Gratuitous Male Nudity Advertisements, Chace Crawford And Evandro Soldati Steal The Dolce And Gabbana Show, Burberry Biker Boys, Hayden Christensen And Rachel Bison Break Up, David Beckham Joins The Princes William And Harry

An estimated 250,000 participants celebrated Christopher Street Pride in Germany’s capital city, Berlin, Saturday. The theme of the 32nd annual march was Normal Is Different, Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit, who is openly gay, cut the ribbon to start the parade, which is a political as it is cultural. “There is still daily discrimination against, and attacks upon, homosexuals,” Wowereit said.”We have to fight for equal rights for as long as that remains the case.” In July, Germany hosts the 2010 Gay Games, when an estimated 12,000 openly gay athletes will compete in a number of events.

In Zagreb, Croatia an estimate 300 gays and lesbians protected by an almost identical number of police, marched Saturday in that country’s 9th Gay Pride Parade. The hour long parade ended with a concert at the city’s Zrinjevac Park. At the same time, an anti-gay protest, organized by an ultra-right extremist political party, surrounded by police, waved Croatian flags, and chanted “You are not Croatia.”

The newest Axel Hotel campaign contains mostly nude men in and around guest suites.

Milan Fashion Week began Saturday, the Burberry and Dolce and Gabbana shows seemed to be most talked about, the D&G show featuring a performance by Annie Lennox, and surprise front row appearance by Chace Crawford, and the runway theatrics of the deeply delicious Evandro Soldati, thankfully in a various pairs of underwear for one’s viewing pleasure.

Burberry, meanwhile, channelled the biker look for Spring and Summer 2011, alongside those odd gladiator sandals.

Hayden Christensen and Rachel Bilson have announced that they are “taking a break,” the couple, who were engaged in February, 2009, saying that they are “taking about a month off” after which they intend to revisit their relationship and determine whether they should continue. The reason this is of interest: this blind item about a celebrity couple – he is gay, she is all about a career – that planned to engage and then have a very public breakup. Although, in hindsight, that could be anyone from Zac and Vanessa to, well, the list is almost endless.

David Beckham sandwiched by the Princes William and Harry.