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class="article-source__lk">The Associated Prs</a></span></div><div class="article-le-byle" data-activy-map="le-byle-article-top">By <span class="byle-name">The Associated Prs</span></div></sectn><div class="article-body__ntent article-body-font--loadg"><p class="">BUDAPEST, Hungary — Risg anger over the polici of Hungary's right-wg ernment filled the streets of the untry's pal on Saturday as thoands of LGBTQ supporters marched the annual Budapt Pri para.</p><p class="">March anizers expected rerd crowds at the event, and lled on participants to exprs their opposn to recent steps by populist Prime Mister Viktor Orban's ernment that crics say stigmatize sexual mori the Central European untry.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><div id="taboolaReadMoreBelow"></div><p class="">Budapt Pri spokperson Jojo Majercsik said this year's march is not jt a celebratn and remembrance of the historil stggl of the LGBTQ movement but a prott agast Orban's current polici targetg gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and queer people.</p><p class="">“A lot of LGBTQ people are aaid and don’t feel like they have a place or a future this untry anymore,” Majercsik told The Associated Prs.</p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_medium__OMa6x"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="People attend the Budapt Pri march Hungary on July 24, 2021." height="1667" width="2500"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer" data-ttid="ptn__ntaer">People attend the Budapt Pri march Hungary on July 24, 2021.</span><span class="ptn__source">Marton Mon / Rters</span></figptn></figure><p class="">The march me after a ntroversial law passed by Hungary's parliament June prohibed the display of ntent to mors that picts homosexualy or genr change. The measur were attached to a bill allowg tougher penalti for pedophil.</p><p class="">Hungary's ernment says s polici seek to protect children. But crics of the legislatn pare to Rsia's gay propaganda law of 2013, and say nflat homosexualy wh pedophilia as part of a mpaign ploy to mobilize nservative voters ahead of electns next sprg.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">The legislatn was met wh fierce opposn by many policians the European Unn, of which Hungary is a member. The Executive Commissn of the 27-natn bloc lnched two separate legal proceedgs agast Hungary's ernment last week over what lled gements on LGBTQ rights.</p><p class="">Saturday's march wound through the center of Budapt and crossed the Danube River on one of the inic stctur nnectg the cy’s two halv: Liberty Bridge.</p><p class="">Mira Nagy, a 16-year-old Pri attene and member of Hungary's LGBTQ muny, said this year's Pri march has special meang.</p><p class="">“This year is much more signifint, bee now there are real stak,” she said. “Our suatn is pretty bad … My plan is that if thgs get even worse, I will leave Hungary.”</p><p class="">The law also requir that only civic anizatns approved by the ernment n provi sexual tn schools, and lims the availabily of media ntent and lerature to mors that discs sexual orientatn.</p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_medium__OMa6x"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="People cross the Liberty Bridge durg the Budapt Pri Para on July 24, 2021." height="1609" width="2500"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer" data-ttid="ptn__ntaer">People cross the Liberty Bridge durg the Budapt Pri Para on July 24, 2021.</span><span class="ptn__source">Ferenc Isza / AFP - Getty Imag</span></figptn></figure><p class="">Pri marcher Anasztazia Orosz said that would hib young people om accsg important rmatn and validatn of their own sexual orientatn.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend" data-ttid="remend-wrapper"></div><p class="">“It was really difficult for me to e out, and the only thg that ma easier was that I found a book of stori on LGBT topics," Orosz said. "That’s how I learned that what I’m feelg is somethg real, that I’m not different.”</p><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend" data-ttid="remend-wrapper"></div><p class="">On Wednday, Orban announced the ernment would hold a natnal referendum to monstrate public support for the law. The poll will ask Hungarians whether children should be troduced to topics of sexual orientatn schools, and whether genr reassignment should be promoted or picted to children.</p><p class="">Yet Majercsik, the Pri spokperson, said the qutns are “openly transphobic and homophobic," and part of a “propaganda mpaign” by the ernment to ce rentment agast the LGBTQ muny.</p><p class="">“I've heard om a lot of LGBT people that are planng to leave the untry, and won't even wa for next year's electns,” Majercsik said. “There will be many others for whom the rults of the electns will terme whether they stay or leave.”</p><p class="">Several members of opposn parti attend the march, cludg liberal Budapt Mayor Gergely Karacsony, a challenger to Orban the electn next year that is expected to be the clost sce Orban's party took power 2010.</p><p class="">Several small unter monstratns were held across central Budapt.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" 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GAY US AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY MARCH BUDAPT PRI MARCH

Photograph: Attila Kisbenek/AFP Thoands of Hungarians braved srchg heat for the annual Pri march Budapt on Saturday, prottg agast ernment ntrols over public displays by the LGBT mister Viktor Orban’s ernment promot a Christian-nservative agenda and 2021 banned “display and promotn of homosexualy” books and films accsible by unr-18s spe strong cricism om rights groups and the European Unn. "But unfortunately I have to say that beg proud of beg gay is not as accepted Hungary as the Wt. Neher anisers nor the ernment gave a number for the marchers, though wns timated about 10, ads for the Pri para were only allowed to be aired late at night, wh most channels not takg the risk at all, Hungarian news se this week, Hungary's send-largt bookseller received a rerd fe for sellg a book that picts homosexualy whout closed wrappg.

The 28th annual event as the untry's laws, which ban the pictn of homosexualy or genr transn, to mors unr 18 have begun to be applied wh creasg regulary, rultg f and other penalti for those who dissemate LGBTQ+ ntent.

David Vig, director at Amnty Internatnal Hungary, said that ntrast to some untri Wtern Europe and North Ameri where Pri events are celebratns of LGBTQ+ history and culture, Budapt Pri is a way of prottg creasg crackdowns on the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people. The 28th annual event as the untry’s laws, which ban the pictn of homosexualy or genr transn, to mors unr 18 have begun to be applied wh creasg regulary, rultg f and other penalti for those who dissemate LGBTQ+ ntent. Budapt Mayor Gergely Karácsony and openly gay U.

THOANDS FY ORBáN WH FTIVE PRI PARA BACKG GAY RIGHTS HUNGARY

“On the ocsn of the 28th Budapt Pri Ftival, we the unrsigned embassi and cultural stut exprs our full support for members of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and tersex (LGBTQI+) muny Hungary and their rights to equaly and non-discrimatn, eedom of exprsn and peaceful assembly and eedom om vlence, ” reads the statement. But this year, Pri is also a prott, as LGBTQ people and their alli rally agast the untry’s creasgly hostile policy towards their muni – punctuated by a new, homophobic law recently passed by Hungary’s hardle ernment.

BUDAPT PRI MARCH IS A PROTT AGAST ANTI-GAY LAWS, SAY ANISERS

The new law, supported by Prime Mister Viktor Orbán, bans all tnal materials and programs for children that are nsired to promote homosexualy and genr reassignment. A 2020 report om the Bratislava-based global thk-tank Globsec found that the majory of Hungarians disagree wh the monizatn of the LGBTQ muny, wh 55% disagreeg wh the statement that LGBTQ rights reprent a nt iology, spe the anti-gay rhetoric whipped up by the current ernment. Yet some believe that years of state-sponsored homophobia is fally takg s toll.

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