a rainbow shirt through berlin an older person then says when i was young we fortunately could've gassed you and you see all these tweets there using that hashtag mique we're. really starting to spark a nationwide debate. about what it is like what the experience is a like for this community here in germany which is of course a relatively progressive country but still people do face these experiences and we see that hashtag now even spreading to other countries like france and austria it's very disturbing and some of the tweets that you for highlighted there so a lot of work to be done clearly how did this movement get started so this started with one man one german man his name is hartmut srifa he's a freelance writer from outside of berlin he says he faced a lot of violence growing up gay in germany in the eighty's and ninety's he also followed the need to movement very closely so he decided you know he wanted to talk about his experiences and really stand up for his community we spoke with him earlier today here's a bit of what he told us he should've i believe it's crucial that we keep moving