The city of Budapest will organise Hungary’s Pride march by the LGBTQ community on June 28 as a municipal event celebrating freedom, Budapest’s liberal mayor said on Monday, in a move to circumvent a law that allows police to ban LGBTQ marches.
Hungary’s parliament, in which Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s right-wing Fidesz Party has a big majority, passed legislation in March that creates a legal basis to ban LGBTQ marches, citing protection of children. It also lets police use facial recognition cameras to identify people who attend.
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Pride organisers have said the 30th Pride march in Budapest would proceed despite the new legislation, and on Monday Budapest Mayor Gergely Karacsony said in a video that the city would team up with organisers. The mayor added since the march will be a municipal event - a celebration of freedom - “no permits from authorities are needed.”
Karacsony said Budapest’s history was about freedom and solidarity. “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 banned, and the Budapest Pride cannot be banned either.”
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A lot of people i know are going. I dont even live in hungary anymore and im not even queer and im still going. This our last stand. The federal election is in like 298 day if im right and theres an actual chance that we overthrow this fucking government which has been ruling for 15 years.
Thank you
Godspeed to you, all of you.
B-B-B-BASED
Budabased
I wonder how orban will react. I expect with federal law enforcement or otherwise armed forces, sending a clear and distinct message.
Is Hungary a federation?
I didn’t knew there was no federation in Hungary. Sorry 'bout that.
You’re welcome.
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Not yet! We only have counties, no states. Maybe in a few years the Republic of Europe.
I’m guessing the commenter wrote federal law, as they are more familiar with american laws in English. We are just one state.
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How the Ukraine War Accelerated the Kremlin’s Campaign Against LGBTQ+ Visibility in Russia
As Pride Month unfolds around the world, celebrating diversity and inclusion, the LGBTQ+ community in many countries continues to face severe repression and discrimination. One such country is Russia, where LGBTQ people are regarded as extremists, gay propaganda laws are in place and governmental crackdown on anything LGBTQ rolls on (a recent example is the so-called “publisher’s case,” in which three managers of Russia’s largest publisher, Eksmo, were arrested on charges of “LGBT propaganda and extremism”).
Given this repressive atmosphere, it is hard to believe that, as recently as three years ago, Western-style pride events were still possible in Russia. This changed abruptly with Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
This is not to suggest, of course, that Russia had ever been particularly gay friendly – far from it. State-sanctioned homophobia had been on the rise since at least 2013. However, despite that, there were signs that Russia was still slowly accepting queer identity and expression …
