Around 100,000 people marched in Budapest’s 30th Pride parade on Saturday, defying a government ban and police orders in what organizers called Hungary’s largest LGBTQ+ event.
Despite threats of fines and police surveillance, participants gathered to protest Prime Minister Orbán’s crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights.
Police diverted the march from its planned route to keep it away from a small group of far-right counter-protesters.
The parade, deemed illegal by a March law, was supported by the city’s mayor as a municipal event.
Many saw the march as a stand for democracy and a sign of growing opposition to Orbán’s policies.
