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BUDAPEST, Hungary \u2014 Tens of thousands of people gathered in soaring temperatures in Hungary\u2019s capital on Saturday to celebrate the 31st annual Budapest Pride, the first such LGBTQ+ march since former Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n, who had sought to ban the event, was ousted in an April election.<\/p>\n

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The march began Saturday afternoon as temperatures reached at least 38 C (100 F) amid a record-breaking heat wave that has gripped most of Europe. Organizers distributed water bottles to marchers, and the city\u2019s public water utility opened fountains along the route.<\/p>\n

Participants set off from Budapest\u2019s iconic Opera house and wound through the city center before crossing the Erzs\u00e9bet Bridge over the Danube River. Members of Hungary\u2019s LGBTQ+ community and masses of supporters danced to music and waved rainbow flags.<\/p>\n

Luca \u00daj, who was participating in her third Pride event, said she felt the mood at the march was more relaxed now that Orb\u00e1n\u2019s government, which implemented numerous anti-LGBTQ+ policies during its 16 years in power, had been defeated.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere used to be a lot of tension. But now I see people as being somehow happier, and there are more older people, too,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s Pride march came a little more than a year after Orb\u00e1n\u2019s nationalist-populist government passed legislation and a constitutional amendment to outlaw the event, drawing criticism from human rights groups and politicians across the European Union.<\/p>\n

Yet in open defiance of the ban, last year\u2019s Pride went on as planned and was the biggest in Hungary\u2019s history, with organizers estimating attendance at over 350,000. The massive turnout for the march, which the government for months had insisted would no longer be permitted, was seen as a major blow to Orb\u00e1n\u2019s prestige.<\/p>\n

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Orb\u00e1n was handily defeated in the April election by a center-right challenger, Prime Minister P\u00e9ter Magyar and his Tisza party. Hungary\u2019s new government has not repealed the Orb\u00e1n-era legislation that outlawed Pride, but police this year authorized the event and were providing security along the route.<\/p>\n

Krist\u00f3f Gy\u00f6rgyi, a first-time Pride participant who traveled to Budapest from the southern city of Szeged, said he has high hopes that Hungary\u2019s new government will take steps to extend rights to sexual minorities that are available in many other European countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that there\u2019s already a debate in Parliament about whether an orphaned child is better off with a same-sex couple or in an orphanage is a positive sign,\u201d he said, referring to the Orb\u00e1n-era ban on same-sex adoption, as well as same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, the laws haven\u2019t changed yet, but there are already many signs of hope for our community,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Hungary\u2019s previous government long insisted that Pride, a celebration of LGBTQ+ visibility and struggle for equal rights, was a violation of children\u2019s rights to moral and spiritual development – something rights groups and many experts have rejected.<\/p>\n

In April, the EU\u2019s highest court ruled that Orb\u00e1n-era legislation from 2021 that banned the availability of LGBTQ+ content to minors violates EU law and breaches a foundational treaty guaranteeing respect for human rights and equality.<\/p>\n

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