Hungary Becomes Only EU Nation To Ban Pride

The Washington Post reports:

Hungary’s government said Thursday that it would ban a Pride march through central Budapest this summer, as Viktor Orban and his ruling Fidesz party escalate their long-standing push to enact anti-LGBTQ+ policies ahead of elections next year.

“The country does not have to tolerate Pride marching through downtown Budapest,” Orban’s chief of staff, Gergely Gulyas, said at a Thursday news briefing, adding: “there will be no Pride in the public form in which we have known it in recent decades.” He did not provide more specifics. The day before, he said Pride should be held in a “closed venue.”

To gain legal authority to move the event out of the public eye, the government would have to pass a new “child protection” law. Such a restriction would obviate much of the point of a Pride parade: a public celebration and affirmation, often including demonstrations for legal rights.

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Orbán’s government bans Budapest Pride in ‘public form’ — In 1997, Hungary was the first former Communist country where a Pride march was held, marking the country’s pioneering role in LGBTQ+ rights. Now Orbán makes Hungary the only EU country to ban it https://t.co/Z5qq7V56bp

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