Ulaanbaatar Pride 2027

Ulaanbaatar's Pride — the LGBT Centre Mongolia calls it Equality and Pride Days — is one of Asia's bravest, held every year in a country where being openly queer still carries real social risk. It usually runs for about ten days from late August into early September; the Centre announces the exact dates and programme closer to the time.

This is not a street festival, and for good reason. The city authorities have refused to approve a public Equality March since 2019, so Pride here is deliberately kept indoors and among trusted spaces: community theatre, a queer film festival, panel discussions and a Pride party that has drawn well over a thousand people, alongside public-awareness campaigns that are, sadly, often vandalised. Across the events the Centre has counted a few thousand participants. Whether an approved public march returns in any given year is never guaranteed.