Pride march in Budapest

Pride organizers have said that the 30th Pride march in Budapest will continue despite new legislation banning Pride and other similar events by the LGBT+ community.

On Monday, Budapest Mayor Gergely Karacsony said in a video that the city will cooperate with the organizers.

The mayor added that because the parade will be a municipal event – a celebration of freedom – “permissions from the authorities are not required.”

Karacsony said that the story of Budapest revolved around freedom and unity.

“In this city, there are no first or second class citizens. In this city, we know that we can only be free together,” he said. – So in this city neither freedom nor love can be forbidden, and Budapest Pride cannot be forbidden either.

Viktor Orban, who faces a challenging election in 2026, pushed through constitutional amendments in April that stipulated that Hungary recognizes only two genders, male and female.

During the past 15 years, Orban’s party, Fidesz, has appealed to conservative Hungarians who believe their country is in a war to protect its Christian identity.

The war is against both Muslim immigrants and what they call “gender and LGBT ideology”, which Brussels is said to have imposed on the Central European country.

See also https://dimma.fo/article/bans-lgbt-symbols-on-public-buildings