By: Paul Goldberg, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS LGBT Politics Europe
BERLIN — (July 4, 2025) — In a terrifying surge of far-right aggression, LGBTQ Pride events across Germany are now under siege by neo-Nazi youth groups and extremist factions. From Berlin to Bautzen, federal authorities are tracking a wave of coordinated attacks, threats, and ultra-nationalist counter-demonstrations aimed at silencing queer visibility — and replacing Pride with their own “Stolzmonat” (Pride of the Nation) propaganda.
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Neo-Nazis Mobilize Against Pride Events
In the town of Bautzen, organizers of a Christopher Street Day (CSD) parade scheduled for August say they’re bracing for a massive right-wing extremist turnout — many of them teenagers. Flyers, videos, and anonymous Telegram posts declare: “Man and woman. The true foundation of life.”
“It’s brutal online because they feel anonymous, but it’s worse on the streets,” said Lea Krause, a local CSD organizer. “They know your name. You know theirs. It’s face to face.”
Just last month in Berlin’s suburbs, police intercepted a planned violent attack at a Pride march. In Wernigerode, a man threatened to open fire on a local CSD. Ammunition was later seized at his residence.
In Regensburg, this month’s Pride event had to be rescheduled due to escalating threats.
German Authorities: “Youth Radicalization Is Accelerating”
Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) confirmed in a public statement that far-right youth groups are specifically targeting LGBTQ events. There are over 200 CSD parades planned this summer, and every one is now considered “potentially high-risk.”
“We’re seeing a shift in society,” warned BKA chief Holger Münch in May. “The normalization of violence among youth is growing — and much of it is anti-LGBTQ+.”
Stolzmonat: The Far Right’s Pride Month Rebrand
The far-right party AfD in Saxony-Anhalt is promoting a parallel movement called “Stolzmonat” — a warped nationalist counter-celebration to LGBTQ Pride. Its mission: glorify “natural order,” “family values,” and reject “rainbow propaganda.”
“June doesn’t belong to the rainbow. It belongs to the people who built this country,” said Dan-Odin Wölfer, a far-right figure behind the Bautzen counter-protest, in a viral video.
Researchers say it’s a post-pandemic shift in right-wing tactics — a pivot away from anti-migrant rhetoric toward targeting queer communities, especially youth.
“Combat gyms, MMA clubs, and youth meetups are now recruitment hubs,” said Sabine Volk, a far-right extremism expert. “It starts as traditional values — then it becomes hate.”
LGBTQ Community Responds: ‘We Will Not Back Down’
Despite threats and intimidation, CSD organizers in towns like Bautzen say they’re doubling down.
“We know what we’re facing,” Krause said. “But we are brave. We are visible. And we’re not stopping.”
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