Ulaanbaatar Pride

Mongolia's Pride is run by one group, the LGBT Centre, the country's first LGBTQI+ rights NGO. It has organized Pride since 2013, and it takes place each year between late August and early September. The core is the Equality Walk, a march at Chinggis (Sukhbaatar) Square in central Ulaanbaatar. Around it come panels, art and a closing party.

The march has a hard history. None took place from 2019 to 2023: first the pandemic stopped it, and then the authorities refused permission. The Centre took the government to court twice and won once, but by then the date had passed. A 2024 roundtable with the National Human Rights Commission and the mayor's office reopened the door, and Equality Walks went ahead in 2024 and 2025. In 2025 the UN Human Rights Committee still pressed Mongolia to guarantee the right to assemble, naming the Walk specifically. The Centre's director told GiveOut that the 2023 Pride events drew over 3,000 people, about 1,200 of them at the party.

Outside Pride, public hostility is real, the Centre's billboards often get vandalized, and anti-discrimination law is weakly enforced. Contact the Centre before you come. We couldn't confirm the exact dates of the 2025 walk, and the 2027 dates hadn't been announced when we checked.