Budapest Mayor to Stage Pride Parade Over Orban’s Opposition

Budapest’s mayor said the Hungarian capital would organize this year’s Pride parade under its own auspices to shield it from attempts by national authorities to ban the LGBTQ event.

The announcement by mayor Gergely Karacsony, a prominent critic of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, followed a police decision earlier this month to reject a petition to hold the annual parade in Budapest. The police’s move was in line with Orban’s guidance and a recent law that casts the event as a threat to children’s development.