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Huge crowds pack banned Pride march in Budapest
Tens of thousands of protesters marched through Hungary’s capital on Saturday as a banned LGBTQ+ rights rally swelled into a ...
Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s effort to ban Pride backfired, drawing a huge throng in support of LGBTQ+ rights and hurting ...
Hundreds of thousands of people from across Europe (including Luxembourg) united in solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community ...
"This isn’t just about LGBQT+ rights, it's also about the right to assemble and about standing up for each other and not ...
Around 100,000 people defied a government ban and police orders Saturday to march in what organizers called the largest LGBTQ+ Pride event in Hungary's history in an open rebuke of Prime Minister ...
The annual event symbolizes the years-long struggle between Hungary's nationalist government and civil society.
Despite all the effort from the government and far-right parties and organisations to ban and sabotage the event, Budapest celebrated its biggest Pride to date on 28 June.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s party enacted the ban, but Budapest’s mayor allowed the event to go on. The police sat on the sidelines.
More than 100,000 people marched from Budapest City hall and wound through the city center before crossing the capital's Erzsébet Bridge over the Danube River.