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Budapest Pride – Pride march held in Budapest
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The 24th Budapest Pride Festival wound up with a march that started from Kossuth Square, in front of the parliament building, on Saturday.
LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) people and their allies marched to March 15th Square, on the Pest side of the Erzsébet Bridge.
Before the start of the march, oganised by the Rainbow Mission Foundation, spokesperson Kama Peksa said LGBTQ people had had enough of being treated as second-class citizens by those in power.
She noted that, according to leaks, the government plans to amend the constitution in September to prohibit LGBTQ people from adopting.
Peksa stressed that LGBTQ people would not give up their fight, rather their solidarity would grow as pressure from the established powers increases.
She said 15 vehicles joined the march as well as 300 volunteers, including legal observers.
The poet and writer Orsolya Karafiáth, who is the MC for this year’s event, said it would be good if the country was at least as open as the crowd gathered in Kossuth Square, unafraid and standing up for dignity and diversity.
The third speaker at the event, the sociologist Dezső Máté, said one notices early in the 21st century that the motivation to change, to question and to achieve equality are missing from society.
“It’s as if time had stopped and the institutions of the state were content with the civil rights and duties that their predecessors have fought for,” he said.
It appears that public movements shaking the country and Europe are coming to an end, he added.
While the speakers addressed the crowd, marchers held a “kiss flash mob” to mark International Kissing Day.
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