13/07/2025
LGBTQ Nation reports that this year, the number of threats made against Pride events across the country, and particularly the economically less well off East, has risen. Organised Nazi groups, echoing the country's brutal history, are on the march, and according to studies of the far right, are branching out from anti-semitism, and Euroskepticism to anti-gay and anti-trans activism. Pride organisers say that the government needs to take stronger action against the extremists. In 2024, 27 Pride marches in Germany were targeted by far-right groups, most of them in eastern Germany, according to CeMAS, a non-profit extremist monitoring organization, which said members of the neo-Nazi groups were often young men. Last year in Bautzen and Leipzig in eastern Germany, hundreds of far-right protesters tried to disrupt annual LGBTQ+ marches. Police stopped 28 men, half of them minors, who planned to attack last year’s Pride march in Berlin.
