US EditionTens of thousands march against Hungary's government, for LGBT rights
- Hungarian authorities banned the Budapest Pride march scheduled for June 28 in Budapest, citing child protection legislation as the legal basis.
- This ban followed legal changes including a 2021 law prohibiting promotion of non-heterosexual lifestyles to minors and a 2020 law limiting adoption to married couples.
- Despite the ban, more than 70 Members of the European Parliament, European Commissioner Hadja Lahbib, and tens of thousands from Hungary’s LGBTQ+ community planned to attend an event called Budapest Pride Freedom Day.
- The head of the European Commission demanded that Hungarian officials allow the parade to proceed, emphasizing that equality and non-discrimination are fundamental principles of the Union. Meanwhile, Budapest’s mayor described the Pride ban as the latest step in a 15-year erosion of democracy in the country.
- The event has become a mass protest against government repression, with police authorized to fine attendees up to €500 but not to arrest them, and authorities aiming to avoid violent confrontations.
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Budapest Pride a big success, defying ban
Hundreds of thousands of people participated in Budapest's Pride festival on Saturday, defying a legal ban imposed by far-right prime minister Viktor Orban and his political allies. Attendance was estimated at about 200,000, six times last year's 35,000. Many banners mocked the Hungarian prime minister. — Read the rest The post Budapest Pride a big success, defying ban appeared first on Boing Boing.
In Europe, the eyes were turned on Hungary, which attracted the lightnings of the European Commission after banning this annual event recalling the bans of Moscow in 2006 and Istanbul in 2015.
100K march in Budapest Pride in defiance of ban
BUDAPEST, Hungary — 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 Viktor Orbán's government.
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