Thousands march for LGBTQ rights in Budapest’s biggest Pride

A group of about 200 counter-demonstrators along the route held banners reading ‘Stop LGBTQ paedophilia’.

Thousands of Hungarians marched in Budapest’s biggest Pride parade on Saturday, amid tension sparked by a series of anti-gay steps by Prime Minister Viktor Orban. After an “anti-paedophilia” law was adopted by parliament last month, Orban’s critics at home and in Brussels have accused him of conflating paedophilia with homosexuality. “Many people are dismayed at the new law and the anti-gay propaganda,” Johanna Majercsik, a spokesperson for the Budapest Pride organiser, told the AFP news agency.