CSD Erfurt is on Saturday 5 September 2026, under the motto Unsere Stadt. Unsere Vielfalt. Unsere Stärke, which is to say our city, our diversity, our strength. The demonstration runs from 11:30 until about 16:00. The official after-show party, PridEburg, takes over the Engelsburg on Allerheiligenstraße afterwards, with three floors, ten acts, drag, pop and techno.
The part worth planning around is the fortnight in front of it. Erfurt Pride runs a framework programme from 21 August to 5 September, published as a dated calendar and mostly free to attend.
Culture comes first. On 30 August there is an art and craft market at the Queeres Zentrum on Johannesstraße, free, and a summer concert at Kalif Storch with the rapper Maurice Conrad, who gives an interview after their set, eighteen euros. A queer picnic on the Petersberg and a talk on transphobia, gender and solidarity at the Queeres Zentrum follow on 31 August, both free. On 1 September there is lino printing for queer people up to 25 at Quassel and an open gaming meetup with a Mario Kart tournament at Spawnpoint. On 2 September a tote bag workshop at the Frauenzentrum Brennessel and a roller derby scrimmage at the Eissportzentrum, where no prior knowledge is expected.
Three dates are about health rather than culture, and they are the ones a visitor is least likely to find elsewhere. On 3 September the city health office holds a sexual health café at the Familiencafé on Am Drosselberg from 15:00 to 17:00, timed to World Sexual Health Day on the 4th. The same evening brings an open information meeting on self-determined sexuality, U=U and PrEP at Nerly on Marktstraße. On 4 September AIDS-Hilfe Thüringen offers anonymous rapid tests for HIV and syphilis, free and without an appointment.
Also on 4 September the rainbow flag goes up at the town hall on the Fischmarkt, with a speech by Erfurt's mayor, and at the Thuringian state chancellery on Regierungsstraße.
The scene in Erfurt is small and we list two places in it, the club TLC Erfurt OX's and Pleasure Shop Erfurt. Three more CSDs fall within 90 kilometres in the weeks after: Nordhausen and Halle on 12 September, Gera on 26 September.
Germany scores 69.54 of 100 on ILGA-Europe's 2026 Rainbow Index, and our Germany country page sets out what that covers. The date, the place and the map are on our CSD Erfurt event page, and the whole calendar with its addresses is on Erfurt Pride's own site.