Braving soaring temperatures, thousands of revellers set off from outside the State Opera House on Saturday for the 31st Budapest Pride Community Festival march, a vibrant celebration winding through the heart of the capital.
This year’s Budapest Pride started
A float blaring music led the procession, with dancers on its platform and marchers waving rainbow flags. The event drew support from the Budapest city government, which provided a bus, while NGOs including Hatter Society, Tilos Radio, Momentum, and Amnesty International contributed floats of their own, MTI wrote.
The route, starting at the Opera, will take marchers along Andrassy Avenue, Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Road, Deák Ferenc Square, Astoria, and Kossuth Lajos Street, before crossing the Elizabeth Bridge and ending at Vérmező Park, where speeches and performances will take place on a main stage.
Organisers laid out a giant EU flag in front of the Opera and a rainbow flag along Andrassy Avenue. The Swedish Embassy set up a water station at the starting point, handing out bottles labelled “LGBTQ rights are human rights”.
The march is being accompanied by ambulances due to the extreme heat, with first-aid stations set up along the route. Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony is scheduled to address the crowd.
New Medián poll: Supermajority of Hungarians support child adoption
A new Medián poll released ahead of the Budapest Pride march has found that more than two-thirds of Hungarians support child adoption by LGBTQ couples. The results, reported by hvg.hu, also indicate a significant shift in attitudes across Hungarian society on the issue.
The outlet noted that in 1997, at the first Budapest Pride, there were only 300 participants, whereas last year, when the event became a key symbol of resistance to the Orbán government, more than 300,000 people took part. This year’s march carries the slogan: “Let’s finish the regime change together!”
Court drops charges against Mayor Karácsony over Budapest Pride march
A Budapest court has dropped criminal charges against Gergely Karácsony, Budapest’s mayor, for allegedly violating assembly laws by supporting last year’s Pride march. The Pest Central District Court terminated the case on June 17, citing a European Court of Justice ruling that Hungary’s child protection law — used as the basis for the charges — violated EU law. Karácsony announced the decision on Facebook, noting that the prosecutor’s office had already dropped the case on June 4. The ruling can still be appealed.
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They all sure look like mentally and emotionally stable people…
But my question is: What the hell do they actually want?!?
You’re gay? You’re bi? You’re a lesbian? You’re a hamster? You’re a vacuum cleaner?
Nobody cares.
Nobody cares whom you want to or do love, touch, caress, swap spit with, schtup, or dream of spending your life with as a companion. The notion that there is discrimination in these regards is an outright, deliberate lie.
The only reason, therefore, that they are so aggressive about announcing themselves to everybody and their dog is that they want more than to merely be free to be what they are. They want to dominate, indoctrinate, and recruit. Just like in the decaying West, they want to insinuate themselves into schools and even kindergartens, they want to police our language, they want to be all up in our faces about how they are “different” and how there is nothing we can do about it and, if we try, we will lose our job, our home, our family, our freedom, because the law is on their side.
That is a red line, which Hungary must NOT allow them to cross.
“..decaying west…we will lose our job, our home, our family, our freedom…”
Alas, the Russian troll has spoken. LGBTQ+ people will conquer the world – be afraid, Be Afraid, BE AFRAID!
Steiner has right.
Mr /Mrs/X Anus you now nothing at all.
You must be an child,or a psychopat.
Judging by your wordplay, you are a teenager.
everything that degenerattes don’t like, becomes a Russian troll, that is nazi mentality.
Beautiful pictures of beautiful people celebrating diversity and having fun and reminding us about the need for the equal rights for this minority. Thank you PRIDE for this great fun event.
Timothy 3:2-5
For people will be lovers of themselves, greedy, arrogant, proud, slanderers, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy. Without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, intemperate, cruel, without love for the good, traitors, reckless, puffed up, more lovers of lusts than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Have also an aversion to these.
Anus the degenerate dreams that he will conquer the world. Poor thing, main stream western media didn’t inform him that Russia, the country he hate so much like the nazis, will drop thousands of kilotons on his hed so the degenerates in this world will disappear forever. Don’t be afraid LGBT degenerate, just seat and wait.
Oh look, another teen came online. The amount of violence done in the name of “whatever” god is staggering, and this religious commenter is also dreaming of more violence – typical.
btw. Russia is a beautiful country, I have visited a few times – long time ago – to admire the art and music culture and visit memorials of great writers. But the ingrained culture of violence and war-mongering in Russia is just sickening.
God punished degenerates with a heat wave. Well done MAKER.
Steiner has an LGBTQ fixation. He says “nobody cares?” but he keeps coming back time after time with his fixation. Just be yourself Steiner and others will be themselves and nobody cares if you are gay.
What’s new under the Sun? The people of Mongrelország voted for this! You reap what you sow!