Tens of Thousands in Budapest Celebrate First Pride Event Since Viktor Orbán’s Ouster

Millions of people took to the streets of cities around the world over the weekend for Pride celebrations. Here in the U.S., LGBTQ+ groups faced a conservative backlash, led by the Republican governors of Indiana and Tennessee, who declared June — Pride Month — as “nuclear family month.”

In Hungary, tens of thousands of people braved triple-digit heat to march through Budapest in the city’s first Pride event since longtime far-right leader Viktor Orbán lost reelection. The march came a year after Orbán’s government rammed through a constitutional amendment to outlaw Pride events.