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Péter Magyar says his government will change the rules that keep same-sex couples from adopting. A day after HRW's assessment of the repeal bill, the shape of the unfinished work is clear: one surviving clause in the Family Protection Act, the constitution, and the law used to ban Pride.
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 gay Roma teacher faced a year in prison for organizing a banned Pride march. In June, prosecutors dropped the case — and the reason they gave matters as much as the outcome.
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.
The CJEU's March 11 ruling told three EU member states they must offer legal gender recognition to nationals who have exercised free movement. Sixty days on, Sofia has reopened cases but passed no law. Budapest and Bratislava are openly defying the judgment.
ILGA-Europe's annual ranking of 49 countries on LGBTQ+ rights goes live in less than a week. With Hungary's anti-LGBTQ law just struck down, Czechia's enhanced partnerships completing their first year, and Albania's EU accession heating up, the 2026 edition will land in a different Europe than 2025's.
Péter Magyar has named education researcher Judit Lannert to run a ministry that, under Fidesz, was the primary engine of Hungary's anti-LGBTQ+ school policies. The right-wing press is already calling her appointment a scandal.
Hungary's incoming prime minister campaigned on vague promises of tolerance and almost no direct commitments on queer rights. The European Court of Justice has just forced the question onto his agenda.
The Court of Justice of the European Union found that Hungary's 2021 'propaganda' law violates core EU values — the first time the bloc has ruled a member state breached Article 2 of its founding treaty.
On Tuesday, the European Court of Justice delivers its judgment in Commission v. Hungary, the first infringement case to rely on Article 2 TEU as a standalone basis. Here's what's at stake.
Péter Magyar's landslide victory ends 16 years of Fidesz rule and Europe's most aggressive anti-LGBTQ+ government. But the new prime minister's record on queer rights is cautious at best.
From forcing Poland to recognize same-sex marriages to challenging Hungary's anti-LGBTQ law, the European Court of Justice is stepping in where elected officials won't.
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.
