Monday Briefing: How Budapest Pride Became a Huge Show of Anti-Orbán Defiance

Monday briefing: How Budapest Pride became a huge show of anti-Orbán defiance

In today’s newsletter: Hungary has relentlessly cracked down on LGBTQ+ rights – but banning Pride proved a step too far, as European politicians joined its biggest ever crowdGood morning. In 1997, Budapest became the first capital in central and eastern Europe to hold a Pride parade. Three decades later, the march is firmly established as Hungary’s biggest LGBTQ+ event, and, in the words of one opposition MP, “a vital expression of joy, resistan…

Opposition mocks Orbán, calling ‘King of Pride’ after massive Budapest parade

An opinion piece in a Hungarian news outlet called the march the “funeral procession of the Orbán regime.”