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All information about Pride 2025
On this page you will find all information about Leipzig Pride 2025 from 20 to 28 June 2025. This page is continuously updated and supplemented as soon as there is something new.
Of course, we have once again given ourselves a motto and a focus this year.
Leipzig Pride is political! We pursue a series of demands on politics and society.
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We need you!
The Leipzig Pride is an event organised by the community for the community. We are currently looking for volunteer stewards to ensure the safe and smooth organisation of the rally and the subsequent demonstration.
You can find further information und register yourself immediately via the following link.
Programme
20 - 28 June 2025
This year’s Pride week will kick off on 20 June 2025 with the traditional raising of the rainbow flag in front of Neues Rathaus and the subsequent reception hosted by the City of Leipzig, where this year’s CSD Leipzig Award for Queer Commitment will also be awarded.
The highlight, the big demonstration followed by a street festival on Augustusplatz, will take place on 17 August 2024.
You will find further details on the programme here in due course.
The highlight, this year’s demonstration, will start on 28 June 2025 at 11:30 a.m. with a rally on Augustusplatz. We will then demonstrate from 13:00. The demonstration will then culminate in the big street festival with a stage programme on Augustusplatz at around 15:30. Further information on the individual programme items can also be found in the events calendar.
We will announce the demonstration route here and via social media in due course.
Highlights
09 August 2024 – 4:00 p.m. – Neues Rathaus
17 August 2024 – 11:30 a.m. – Augustusplatz
17 August 2024 – 4:00 p.m. – Augustusplatz
Events of the Pride week
Once again this year, a diverse week of events will take place in the run-up to Pride. Numerous Leipzig clubs, organisations and institutions have put together a colourful programme that has something for everyone. A total of 38 events await you this year! You can find information on all events in our interactive event calendar. You can synchronise individual events or the entire calendar of events with your calendar app so you never miss an event again!
You can also find all the information about the Pride and the events summarised in our programme booklet. Download it now so that you always have all the important information for your Pride week to hand. You can also find printed copies of the booklet in bars, clubs, advice centres and many other places in Leipzig.
Demo
Route
The demonstration will start directly after the rally on 17 August at 13:00 on Augustusplatz and will continue along Grimmaischer Steinweg towards Johannisplatz and then along Prager Straße to Ostplatz.
From there we will walk along Johnnisallee past the University Hospital to Straße des 18. October.
We walk along this street to Bayrischer Platz, where we turn into Windmühlenstraße. We follow this street to Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz and finally leave it in the direction of the city centre.
After a short section on Schillerstraße, we reach the market via Petersstraße. From there, the route continues through Salzgässchen onto Reichsstraße and over this to Hallisches Tor.
Here we change to the city centre ring road and walk across Willy-Brandt-Platz past the main railway station to Goethestraße and back to Augustusplatz.
There the demonstration will finally lead to the big street festival with a stage programme.
As last year, all speeches will take place during the central rally before the demonstration, so there will be no stops in between.
Click on the image to enlarge.
Conditions
We must draw your attention to the following conditions of the assembly authorities for the rally and demonstration on 17 August 2024:
- The Mendebrunnen fountain on Augustusplatz may not be entered. This also applies to the attachment of objects or demonstration materials to the Mendebrunnen fountain.
- The serving and sale of alcoholic beverages is prohibited for the entire duration of the assembly (rally and demonstration).
- During the demonstration, the right-hand lane must be maintained unless the police specify a different procedure on site. Local public transport or oncoming traffic must not be obstructed or jeopardised, taking local conditions into account. An existing separate track bed of the Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe must be kept clear at all times. The instructions of police officers must be followed at all times.
- If necessary, the assembly must be interrupted when the police, fire brigade or rescue vehicles are travelling to the scene.
- Demonstration materials must be carried in such a way that other participants or third parties are not endangered or hindered.
- A distance of at least one metre must be maintained from the overhead lines of Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe.
- Participants in the assembly are prohibited from carrying dangerous objects that could be used as projectiles, in particular drinks cans and glass bottles. However, it is permitted to carry plastic drinks containers or tetra packs and thermos flasks. It is also forbidden to carry pyrotechnic products.
- The dropping of leaflets, magazines, other publications or similar during the assembly is prohibited. If the aforementioned publications are carried, they must be handed over or displayed to third parties.
- The use of sidewalk chalk is permitted without further restrictions as long as it is not long-lasting, does not contain any chemical additives and is water-soluble. If chalk is used that does not fulfil these criteria, the assembly location must be at least roughly cleaned with water after the assembly with regard to the public areas painted with street chalk.
Hints and tips
To ensure that the demo is a good experience for everyone and runs safely, we ask you to follow these instructions:
- Be considerate of each other and respect other participants! Do not leave the demo alone if you do not feel safe and seek help if you are not feeling well or are being threatened.
- Please be friendly to the volunteer stewards and follow their instructions. In particular, keep your distance from the vehicles and do not cross any barriers.
- Emergency paramedics will be on duty for you during the demonstration. Emergency vehicles with flashing blue lights must be allowed through at all times. This applies in particular in the area of the University Hospital.
- Drink enough water! The demo is expected to last 2.5 hours and it's getting warm. You should make sure to drink enough water or other non-alcoholic drinks.
- You can get free drinking water at several points during the demo as well as at the beginning on Augustusplatz. You can find them in the graphic above.
- Leave your pets at home! Many people come together for the demonstration and it gets loud. This is pure stress and therefore no place for pets. Please leave them at home or with friends while you demonstrate with us.
- Physical contact only with consent! No matter what, how much or how little a person is wearing - please do not touch people who have not expressly agreed to this.
- Choose a suitable outfit! No matter what you wear, the important thing is that you feel comfortable in it and can manage the demo route in it. Please refrain from complete nudity.
- Remember sun protection! We are in midsummer and there is little shade on the route. Please protect yourself with sun cream, sunglasses and/or appropriate clothing if necessary.
- Please give up alcohol and drugs! Yes, cannabis is now legal. However, out of consideration for others and especially underage participants, we ask you to refrain from using it during the demo. The same applies to alcohol.
- Please do not take any glass bottles or dangerous objects to the demonstration and do not leave any rubbish on the streets and green spaces.
- You have the possibility to shorten the route by S-Bahn at Bayrischer Bahnhof, Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz, Markt and Hauptbahnhof. Please note that trams are not expected to run along the route during the demonstration.
- The buses for barrier-free participation in the demonstration will be in 2nd and 3rd position in the demonstration procession. Boarding will take place in Goethestraße before the start of the demonstration. Boarding after the start of the demonstration is not possible!
- National flags and regional flags of any kind are prohibited. We want all participants to feel comfortable and safe. In view of the numerous conflicts worldwide, there is a risk that these will be played out by bringing national or regional flags to Pride. Therefore, these flags are generally prohibited in order to protect the Pride from being appropriated.
Icon of CSD Leipzig Drag Contest
In keeping with our motto “We’re here to stay!”, we are once again looking for an Icon of CSD Leipzig in our traditional drag contest for CSD 2025.
You want to show yourself? The future of drag is in your hands! Apply now and become our Icon of CSD Leipzig 2025! Show us your art in a form of your choice! You can find more information about the contest in our call for entries.
Livestream
Here you will find the live broadcast of the rally on 17 August 2024 from 11:30 a.m. and the stage programme for the street festival from around 4:00 p.m.
Rally (from 11:30 a.m.)
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Our ambassadors
We are very proud to have Barbie Breakout and Max Rogall at our side, two personalities who not only inspire the queer community, but also encourage society as a whole to break down barriers and build bridges. This year’s motto “We vote for diversity!” could hardly be better represented. We would like to take this opportunity to thank our community for all your ambassador suggestions that have reached us!
Barbie Breakout
Drag queen, activist, author, presenter and podcaster
Already successful as a hair & make-up artist, she started her second career in drag at the beginning of the 2000s, did shows, wrote columns and published her first book in 2012.
As a protest against anti-queer attacks in Russia, she sewed her mouth shut on camera in 2013 and became one of the most important queer activist voices in Germany overnight.
Since 2023, she has been the host of “Drag Race Germany”, the German spin-off of RuPaul’s successful show.
Max Rogall
Queer activist and content creator
Max has been publishing a new video every day since 2022: As @321maxx, he introduces his community to queer news and history, clarifies terms and contexts and disarms anti-queer statements. Sometimes as an explainer, sometimes as a complainer, he creates an important counterpoint to the increasingly loud queer hostility on social media.
He was also a contestant in the third season of the queer dating show “Prince Charming” in 2021.
You can find out what motivates our two ambassadors to get involved in CSD Leipzig and what they stand for in their greetings for CSD 2024. Both will be live at the rally on 17 August 2024 from 11:30 a.m. on Augustusplatz and at the subsequent demonstration.
We would like to thank them from the bottom of our hearts for their commitment to CSD Leipzig 2024!
Accessibility and inclusion
We want to move in the right direction and make our CSD more accessible. To this end, we have been continuously developing our inclusion concept for some time in order to break down barriers and enable ALL people to participate in the CSD and the events of the programme week. You can find detailed information on inclusion and accessibility at CSD Leipzig under the following link.
Demonstration
This year, there will once again be demo vehicles for people with walking disabilities and older people. Click on the link below to find out how you can make use of them.
Rally and street festival
There will once again be a platform in a central position on Augustusplatz, from which people with walking disabilities, especially those who use wheelchairs, will have the opportunity to follow the stage programme from an elevated position. We also offer several barrier-free toilets on the square. The stage programme will be translated into German sign language.
Assistants
To realise these services, volunteer assistants for people with disabilities are deployed to provide support, for example when getting on and off the vehicles or when using the platform.