Hungary Pride goes forward despite threat from repressive law
BUDAPEST — With the support of Budapest's liberal mayor, Hungary's LGBTQ+ community and supporters from Brussels and around the world were poised to hold Pride festivities this weekend, challenging an effort to ban the event by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a self-declared 'illiberal' Christian conservative whose Fidesz party pushed through draconian legislation in March banning public events that portray or allegedly promote homosexuality.
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