The situation in Hungary

In recent days, damaging and hateful laws were ed by the Parliament in Hungary 🇭🇺.

The new laws ban any Pride events, gatherings or protest from taking place in Hungary.

It doesn't stop there.

The laws allow facial recognition technology to be used to identify individuals who participate in any such event or gathering.

For instance, if you were to participate in a Pride March or a peaceful protest against homophobia, facial recognition would be used to subsequently identify and arrest you to face consequences.

The 'excuse' for these new laws, as written into the laws, is 'child protection'.

Yes. You heard right.

The Fidesz Party, lead by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, ed by their coalition partners, the Christian Democrats, voted in the new laws 136 votes for to 27 against, using child protection as their base argument.

Viktor Orbán has been Prime Minister for a long time and when you consider other facts about him, it's no surprise that these homo/transphobic laws have come about.

FACT : Under his Prime Ministership, Hungary is the only EU Member State not to sign an agreement to Ukraine with regards to the current war there.

All other 26 EU Member States Ukraine.

FACT : Viktor Orbán is a er of Trump (and the transphobia of the latter is already well established).

FACT : Viktor Orbán is a er of Putin. The current war in Ukraine was started by the latter and under his iron fist, Russia has homo/transphobic laws of their own.

On 28 June 2025, a Pride March is still going ahead in Budapest, despite the new laws.

Organisers are still pushing ahead as a protest against the laws.

We must stand firm in solidarity with all Orientation and Gender Identity Diverse folk in Hungary.

Which part of the world we live in, we must always unite to protect our identity rights, which are Human Rights.

Szilárdan kiállunk a magyarországi népünk mellett!