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With the 2026 parliamentary elections approaching, the annual Budapest Pride Parade seemed poised to become the next fight ...
Beneath a blaze of rainbow flags and amid roars of defiance, big crowds gathered in the Hungarian capital Budapest for the city’s 30th annual Pride march – an event that, this year, is unfolding as ...
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — 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 ...
Organisers estimate up to 200,000 people marched after government banned the annual celebration. Tens of thousands of people have marched for LGBTQ rights in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, defying a ...
An organizer of Budapest’s LGBTQ+ Pride parade said Monday he was tentatively relieved that authorities had not carried out a widespread crackdown on participants in the weeks since the event, as some ...
On June 28, almost 200,000 people flooded the streets of Budapest to celebrate Pride, braving a ban put in place by Prime ...
Budapest Pride took place as planned despite new anti-Pride laws passed in March and heavy-handed police tactics aimed at ...
Hungarian police said on Thursday that they were banning the Budapest Pride march of the LGBTQ+ community planned for June 28, despite the city's mayor saying it was a municipal event that requires no ...
The local government's Freedom Day event ended without incidents, with no police intervention, and counter-demonstrators being kept away.
Critics see the move to ban the march scheduled for this weekend as part of a wider crackdown on democratic freedoms.
By JUSTIN SPIKE. BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — 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 ...
Marchers gambled with potential police intervention and heavy fines to participate in the 30th annual Budapest Pride, which was outlawed in March by Orbán’s right-wing populist governing party.