This year’s Budapest Pride parade took place on July 23rd
This year’s Budapest Pride parade took place on July 23, the organizers write Communication.
2022 will be the 27th Pride parade in Budapest. It is also written that a record number of people joined the march last year, with a total of 35,000 marching from Madách Square to Tabán. The route of the 2022 parade has not yet been finalized, but it is promised that the parade will be followed by the largest LGBTQ party in the country in Budapest Park.
“Everyone who wants to live in a democratic country where all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people can live freely and safely, the state does not interfere in people’s privacy, finally free choice of marriage, free marriage, free starting a family, free education, free self-expression and free self-determination over our name and registered gender. Therefore, let us meet on Saturday, July 23, 2022, take back our future and march together for the human rights that belong to all people, including LGBTQ people, ”said Máté Hegedűs, a spokesman for Budapest Pride at Kossuth on Friday afternoon. on the square.
The date also means that the 27th Budapest Pride Festival will be held from June 24 to July 24. The festival’s more than 100 programs are organized jointly by nearly 70 NGOs, informal groups and individuals. “As in the last two years, this year we will be holding the LGBTQ series of events in compliance with and taking into account the epidemiological restrictions in force at the time, so the organizers are also thinking about online solutions for the programs,” they write.
The city of Brussels is supporting Budapest Pirde with 30,000 euros through an association called Forbidden Colors. The Brussels supporters chose Budapest Pride because they are “Hungary’s most important LGBTIQ + organization. Hundreds of their events include the annual Budapest Pride broadcast ”.