Budapest Pride march took place without problems yesterday

HUNGARY - In Brief 29 Jun 2025 by Istvan Racz
On Saturday, June 28, the annual Pride March of the LGBTQ community took place in Budapest, despite the government's express will and a previously announced police ban on the event. The march attracted between 50-100k participants, making the event the biggest Pride ever, and the second largest street demonstration since Fidesz' takeover in 2010, after the so-called 'demonstration of influencers' against politically driven tolerance of pedophilia in February 2024, in the context of which President Novák and Justice Minister Varga were forced by PM Orbán to resign. Yesterday's event went peacefully, in tension-free good mood, at certain points in kind of a party style, with no violence from demonstrators, the police, or counter-demonstrators at all. Provocative gestures, emphasising gay and lesbian sexuality were carefully avoided, and the event took the form of a demonstration for civil rights and freedom, the protection of minorities and European values. Indeed, it has proven to be more than a demonstration only for the rights of the LGBTQ community.Early this year, PM Orbán promised a 'spring clean-up', meaning sg. like sweeping out what he meant to be the liberal dirt, and an important point in his plan was to ban the annual Pride March. To create a legal basis for this, Fidesz have changed the Constitution to include the protection of children as a basic right, and then they imposed a limitation on the right of assembly on this basis. The concept was that the Pride March, and possibly other demonstrations, could be banned as they were deemed to be harmful for the development of children, thus running against the constitution. A short while ago, police refused to is...

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