Budapest Pride ban cannot go unchallenged
Budapest Pride ban cannot go unchallenged - The Labour Party
- Stand in solidarity with Labour LGBTQ+ and the Outing Festival tomorrow at 1pm at Hungarian Embassy
The executive board of the Labour Party’s LGBTQ+ section, Labour LGBTQ+, alongside the rural Pride organisation, the Outing Festival, have urged attendance at a protest to fight the authoritarian decision of Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, and his party, Fidesz, to ban Budapest Pride.
Labour LGBTQ+ Co-chairperson, James Kearney, said:
“This is another line crossed in a succession of authoritarian and anti-queer attempts to erase the LGBTQ+ community from public life in Hungary.
“Having already passed anti-LGBTQ+ legislation to ban so-called “homosexual and transexual propaganda” in 2021, this is yet another authoritarian move to pretend that LGBTQ+ Hungarian do not exist and that they are harmful to society.
“As a community, we have been here before and every Pride movement in the world started as a protest to show the world that we are here, we are your friends, your neighbours, your family, and that we will not be silent or silenced.”
Labour LGBTQ+, alongside the Outing Festival, are encouraging people to attend their protest outside the Hungarian Embassy on Friday, 21st March at 1:00 pm, to show solidarity and defiance with the Hungarian LGBTQ+ community.