200,000 Turn Out For First Post-Orban Budapest Pride
The Associated Press reports: Tens of thousands of people gathered in soaring temperatures in Hungary’s capital on Saturday to celebrate the 31st annual Budapest Pride, the first such LGBTQ+ march since former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who had sought to ban the event, was ousted in an April election. The march began Saturday afternoon as … The post 200,000 Turn Out For First Post-Orban Budapest Pride appeared first on Joe.My.God..
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The Associated Press reports:
Tens of thousands of people gathered in soaring temperatures in Hungary’s capital on Saturday to celebrate the 31st annual Budapest Pride, the first such LGBTQ+ march since former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who had sought to ban the event, was ousted in an April election.
The march began Saturday afternoon as temperatures reached at least 100 degrees amid a record-breaking heat wave that has gripped most of Europe. Organizers distributed water bottles to marchers, and the city’s public water utility opened fountains along the route.
Participants set off from Budapest’s iconic Opera house and wound through the city center before crossing the Erzsébet Bridge over the Danube River. Members of Hungary’s LGBTQ+ community and masses of supporters danced to music and waved rainbow flags.
In open defiance of the ban, last year’s Pride went on as planned and was the biggest in Hungary’s history, with organizers estimating attendance at over 350,000. The massive turnout for the march, which the government for months had insisted would no longer be permitted, was seen as a major blow to Orbán’s prestige
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— Tagesschau Bot (@tagesschau.bsky.social) June 27, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Tens of thousands of people gathered in soaring temperatures in Hungary’s capital to celebrate the 31st annual Budapest Pride, the first such LGBTQ+ march since former prime minister Viktor Orbán, who had sought to ban the event, was ousted in an April election
— RTÉ News (@news.rte.ie) June 27, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Saturday’s Budapest Pride march came a little more than a year after Viktor Orbán’s nationalist-populist government passed legislation and a constitutional amendment to outlaw the event. https://to.pbs.org/4ezPIDs
— PBS News (@pbsnews.org) June 27, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Das liberale Budapest atmet auf nach 16 Jahren Orbán. Am Samstag findet die Pride nun endlich straffrei statt
www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/buda…— Verena Mayer (@verenamayer.bsky.social) June 26, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Ungern firar första Pride utan Orbán • Benjamin Dousa har åkt till Budapest för att delta.
— Dagens ETC (@etc.se) June 27, 2026 at 12:32 PM
200.000 Menschen erwartet – Budapest Pride erstmals seit Jahren ohne Verbote #BudapestPride #Pride2026 #LGBTQ #Vielfalt #Offenheit
— SCHWULISSIMO (@schwulissimo.bsky.social) June 25, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Hungary’s first post-Orbán Pride march draws thousands in Budapest.
— TVP World (@tvpworld.bsky.social) June 27, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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