With the 2026 parliamentary elections approaching, the annual Budapest Pride Parade seemed poised to become the next fight between Fidesz and Hungary’s Left.

The mayor of Budapest said on Thursday he had become a "suspect" in a police investigation targeting the organisers of an ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Around 100,000 people defied a government ban and police orders Saturday to march in what organizers called the largest LGBTQ+ Pride event in Hungary's history in an open ...

Beneath a blaze of rainbow flags and amid roars of defiance, big crowds gathered in the Hungarian capital Budapest for the ...

Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán tried to have this year’s Budapest Pride cancelled, but Mayor Gergely Karácsony found a legal ...

Budapest Mayor Gergely Karacsony has become a suspect in a police investigation over a banned Pride march that turned into a ...

Organisers estimate up to 200,000 people marched after government banned the annual celebration. Tens of thousands of people have marched for LGBTQ rights in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, defying a ...

Critics see the move to ban the march scheduled for this weekend as part of a wider crackdown on democratic freedoms.

The real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence.

On Tuesday, July 22, the Romanian Municipality of Oradea banned a Pride march planned for the following weekend from taking ...

Around 100,000 people have marched in Budapest in Hungary's largest ever LGBTQ+ Pride event in defiance of a government ban. Organizers called Saturday's march a bold stand against Prime Minister ...

"I could use an uglier word because I’m extremely angry, but I won’t,” he added. A participant poses as people start gathering for the Pride march in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, June 28, 2025.