June 30, 2025 - BUDAPEST, June 29 (Reuters) - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called Saturday's Pride "repulsive and shameful", accusing the EU of directing opposition politicians to organise the event, which turned into an anti-government protest, local ...

June 30, 2025 - BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called Saturday’s Pride "repulsive and shameful", accusing the EU of directing opposition politicians to organise the event, which turned into an anti-government protest, local media ...

May 4, 2023 - Information on homosexuality was ... to minors. On Thursday, Orban argued that liberalism sought to degrade nations, which had led to the West falling behind Asia in economic and demographic indicators....

1 month ago - The festival was opened in the past by notable public figures including Gábor Demszky, then Mayor of Budapest, and Kinga Göncz, then Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Hungarian far-right party Our Homeland Movement has called for a ban on LGBTQ pride marches. In correlation with the prime ministership of Viktor Orbán, LGBTQ rights in Hungary have stalled.

June 30, 2025 - BUDAPEST - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called Saturday's Pride "repulsive and shameful", accusing the EU of directing opposition politicians to organise the event, which turned into an anti-government protest, local media reported ...

June 11, 2025 - Hungarians declare resistance to ... protest since Orbán's party pushed through a law in March, and a constitutional amendment the following month, that effectively banned public LGBTQ+ events....

June 28, 2025 - Finnish MEP Li Andersson said it was important for her and her European colleagues to be there to show solidarity with both Hungary's LGBTQI community and civil society. "It's important to emphasise that the reason why we are here is not only Pride - this is about the fundamental rights of all of us." She added that she thinks Orban is using arguments on family values as a pretext to ban the march.

July 22, 2023 - Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Saturday renewed an attack on the European Union for conducting what he called an "LGBTQ offensive", saying his nationalist government would protect the country's Christian roots.

March 19, 2025 - We stand with the LGBTQI community - in Hungary & in all Member States." The organisers of Budapest Pride criticised the decision on social media. "This is not child protection, this is fascism," they wrote. "A democratic leader would never think of restricting the fundamental rights of those who disagree with him." Organisers vowed to continue to hold their planned 30th Pride march in Budapest on 28 June. In recent months Orban has launched increasing attacks on his critics and announced plans for more conservative law changes, vowing last year to "occupy Brussels" to protect Hungary's freedom.

1 week ago - Magyar, whose center-right Tisza party is polling ahead of Orbán’s Fidesz in most independent surveys, has jumped on the case and accused the government of failing to protect vulnerable children, and called on Orbán to resign.

1 week ago - "In other countries, the entire government would have fallen over this scandal. But here we see them clinging to power tooth and nail," one protester told the Associated Press, adding that he believes the Orban government "will be gone" by the time of elections. ... Hungarians are tired of Viktor Orban’s autocratic rule.

June 24, 2025 - However, Lau has started to have troubling second thoughts about this show of affection since the government ramped up its anti-LGBTQ+ campaign. Right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who casts himself as a defender of what he calls Christian values from Western liberalism and whose supporters are mostly rural conservatives, has passed several laws affecting the lives of Hungary’s LGBTQ+ community over the past decade.

July 1, 2025 - People cross the Elisabeth Bridge during the Budapest Pride march, 28 June 2025. Photograph: Bernadett Szabó/Reuters ... Huge crowds defied a ban to party on Saturday, yet authoritarians across the continent are targeting LGBTQ+ people to spread division · Tue 1 Jul 2025 08.30 EDTLast modified on Tue 1 Jul 2025 08.32 EDT ... An animal is at its most dangerous when it is wounded, and the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, was already haemorrhaging supporters before a record number of people took to the streets on Saturday to support Budapest Pride, which his government had legally banned in March.

March 20, 2025 - On March 18, thousands gathered on the streets of Budapest to protest it and the ruling party’s attacks on the rule of law. Despite the ban, organizers plan to go ahead with Pride in late June and Budapest’s Lord Mayor said that Pride will happen in the city. Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner Michael O’Flaherty called on the Hungarian president to veto the law. The EU Commission should call on the Orban government to repeal the discriminatory law and launch new legal action against Hungary’s government for its brazen assaults on the rights of LGBT people and freedoms of assembly and expression.

April 12, 2025 - BUDAPEST, April 12 (Reuters) - Several thousand Hungarians mocked right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban's moves to ban the annual Pride march by LGBTQ+ groups, dressed in grey and carrying banners ironically denouncing colours and diversity ...

July 1, 2025 - In an appearance on state radio, Orbán accused the EU of orchestrating a “repulsive provocation” in the form of the Pride parade. He claimed the event was intentionally routed through areas with churches and schools.

The Hungarian Parliament adopts a law that builds upon the anti-LGBT law to restrict LGBTIQ+ themed assemblies - effectively banning the Pride march. Organisers face up to 1 year of imprisonment, and participants fines of up to EUR 500.

1 week ago - The demonstration came in response to videos published this week depicting employees of a juvenile correction facility in the Hungarian capital, physically abusing children housed there. The former head of the facility, who is in police custody on suspicion of operating a prostitution ring among other crimes, has also been accused of subjecting minors to physical and sexual abuse. Police raided the correction centre this week, though critics have accused Orbán's government of failing to act despite reports of misconduct going back years.