With the 2026 parliamentary elections approaching, the annual Budapest Pride Parade seemed poised to become the next fight ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Around 100,000 people defied a government ban and police orders Saturday to march in what organizers called the largest LGBTQ+ Pride event in Hungary's history in an open ...

Organisers estimate up to 200,000 people marched after government banned the annual celebration. Tens of thousands of people have marched for LGBTQ rights in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, defying a ...

Beneath a blaze of rainbow flags and amid roars of defiance, big crowds gathered in the Hungarian capital Budapest for the city’s 30th annual Pride march – an event that, this year, is unfolding as ...

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Two weeks after Budapest Pride persisted in the face of government threats, an organizer expressed tentative relief at the ...

A distance that usually takes only 20 minutes on foot stretched to three hours. Prime Minister Viktor Orban's ban, many Budapest Pride participants told me, spurred them to attend an event they ...

Tens of thousands marched in Budapest Saturday, boldly defying a new law by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's ruling coalition that bans Hungary's annual Pride celebrations. The revellers kicked off ...

Despite witnessing soaring visitor numbers in recent years, a 'beautiful' European hotspot has been stung with an FCDO ...

The local government's Freedom Day event ended without incidents, with no police intervention, and counter-demonstrators being kept away.

Critics see the move to ban the march scheduled for this weekend as part of a wider crackdown on democratic freedoms.

Police will decide whether the Budapest Pride event can be held even though Budapest's mayor has tried to circumvent a law by organising the march as a municipal event, Prime Minister Viktor Orban ...