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Péter Magyar's government tabled the bill on Monday, five months after the EU's top court found the 2021 law breached the Union's founding values. It is the beginning of an unwinding — but it leaves the constitutional amendment, the adoption ban and legal gender recognition untouched.
A year after 200,000 defied a government ban, Budapest Pride returned on June 27 — this time legal, police-protected, and marching in 38°C heat through a country whose politics have shifted underneath it.
Hungarian prosecutors have dropped criminal charges against Mayor Gergely Karácsony for organising the banned 2025 Pride march, citing April's EU court ruling. The man who said freedom can't be banned in Budapest just won.
A year after Orbán's government banned it and 200,000 people marched anyway, Hungarian police have formally approved the 31st Budapest Pride — and pushed the counter-protests away from the route.
Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony faces criminal charges for co-organizing last summer's banned Pride march. Meanwhile, Hungary is gearing up to use biometric surveillance against future attendees — a move the EU says may violate its own AI Act.
