AP explains Budapest Pride, with about 100,000 marching in defiance of government ban

Описание: (29 Jun 2025)

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Budapest - 28 June 2025
1. Various of crowd marching across bridge over Danube
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Justin Spike, The Associated Press: ++STARTS ON SHOT 1 AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 3 TO 7++
"Around 100,000 people have taken to the streets in Hungary's capital, Budapest, to celebrate the 30th annual Budapest Pride, despite a government ban on the event. Hungary's government in March passed a law in parliament outlawing the event, saying that it was harmful to the development of children. Organizers have rejected this explanation and vowed that they would go ahead with the event anyway. That was helped along by Budapest's liberal mayor, who helped in the organization of the event at which 100,000 people have appeared on the streets. Now, rights groups and other allies of the LGBTQ movement have argued that the government's policies are in effect a way to stigmatize LGBTQ people, and have also accused the government of equating homosexuality with paedophilia. At Pride on Saturday, a couple of hundred counter-demonstrators from right-wing groups showed up to try to protest the event, but they were held back from the crowd by police.”
3. Mid of Pride participant waving rainbow flag
4. Various of Pride parade
5. Pride participants singing and dancing
6. Wide of police and counter demonstrators with a large banner
7. Mid of police taking away counter demonstrator
STORYLINE:
Around 100,000 people defied a government ban and police orders on Saturday to march in what organizers called the largest LGBTQ+ Pride event in Hungary's history in an open rebuke of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's government.

Marchers gambled with potential police intervention and heavy fines to participate in the 30th annual Budapest Pride, which was outlawed by a law passed in March by Orbán's right-wing populist governing party.

The march began at Budapest City hall and wound through the city centre before crossing the capital's Erzsébet Bridge over the Danube River.

Police diverted the crowd from its planned route to keep it separated from a small group of far-right counter-protesters, while members of Hungary's LGBTQ+ community and large numbers of supporters danced to music and waved rainbow and anti-government flags.

AP video by: Nikolett Csányi and Bela Szandelszky

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