The LEGTBQ community in Hungary challenges the government embargo of the march in Budapest Pride

With loud rainbow flags, tens of thousands of LGBTQ The Hungarians and their supporters moved to the streets of Budapest for the Braid procession, challenging a government embargo and the threats of Prime Minister Victor Urban against activists.

Organizers of the thirtieth edition of the Brid march in the Hungarian capital said that more than 100,000 people walked from the Budapest City Hall and were wounded in the city center before crossing the Erzezit Bridge in the capital over the Danube.

“This is much more, not just about homosexuality,” Izstter Ryan Body, one of the demonstrators, told Reuters.

“None of us is free until everyone becomes free,” I read one mark.

The police transferred the crowd by planning to keep it separate from a small group of advanced right -wing contestants.

Popular Urban Party in March Follow the law quickly Through Parliament that made the crime of holding or attending events that “depict or promote” homosexuality of minors under the age of 18, Urban explained this earlier. Budapest Pride The explicit goal of the law was.

The last Hungary Law allows the authorities to use facial recognition tools to identify individuals who attend a prohibited event. The arrest of fines of up to 200,000 Hungary Forent ($ 586) can cause. Organizers face up to one year in prison.

But on Friday, Braid organizers, along with the mayor of Budapest Gerlie Carxon, the European Commissioner, Haja Lahib, and European Parliament Speaker Nikolai Stefanota, said that a march will be held on Saturday despite the official threats of heavy fines for participants and even the prison for liberal distance.

“The government is always fighting against an enemy to protect them against the Hungarians … this time, it is the sexual minorities the goal.” “We believe that there should not be first and second -class citizens, so we decided to stand next to this event.”

On Saturday, the participants remained a challenge.

“I am proud to be gay … and I am very afraid that the government wants to drop us. I am very surprised because there are many people, I want to cry,” one of the 66 -year -old participants, who gave his first name, Zultan, told AFP.

She told a woman CBS News BBC partner She was preparing because she wanted a country “diversity” for her children.

“We have a law that prohibits people who differ from others. This is why we are here. Because it harms our rights. That is why we came,” said Luca, 34.

BBC told her that she is concerned about her 4 -year -old daughter “in a country that she cannot love anyone.”

Critics prohibiting pride and other Hungarian legislation targeting gay societies+ says that policies remind us of similar restrictions against sexual minorities in Russia.

Urban, which is seen as the closest ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the European Union, was prevented in recent years to adopt the same sex and prohibited any LGBTQ+ content, including on television, movies, advertisements and literature available to minors.

His government argues that exposure to such content negatively affects the growth of children. But the opponents say that the movements are part of a wider effort for sexual minorities as a scapegoat and the unification of its conservative base.

Speaking to state radio on Friday, Urban reduced the possibility of violent clashes between the police and the participants, but he warned that the presence of pride “will have legal consequences.”

“Of course, the police can dismantle such events, because they have the authority to do so, but Hungary is a civilized country, a civil society. We do not harm each other,” he said.

More than 70 members of the European Parliament, as well as other officials from the countries surrounding Europe, will participate in a march on Saturday.

“All eyes are on Budapest”, where the marches of pride challenge the government ban.

“The European Union is not neutral to hatred,” she said. “We can’t stay negative. We cannot withstand unbearable.”

Anti -demonstrations

On Thursday, the Radical Right Party, which our national movement announced, announced that it had requested the approval of the police to maintain gatherings in many sites throughout the city, many of which are on the same way as the Brid March.

The New Nazis Group said it will also meet on Saturday in the Budapest City Hall, which is scheduled to leave the march of pride. The group announced that “men and women of only two different sexes” welcome to attend its demonstration.

A woman, who only gave her first name Catalin, told AFP on Saturday that she agreed to the ban, although she was hoping for no clashes.

“It is disgusting … it has become a heresy to show ourselves,” she said.