At the beginning of April, the police revoked the permission for organizing Budapest Pride, the annual Gay Pride Parade in Hungary. The reason given by the authority was that it would disturb traffic, and traffic could not have been arranged sufficiently during the event. The ruling was quite strange, considering that the ‘Peace March’ that was organized in support of the government of Viktor Orbán took place not so long ago on a similar route. To be precise: the exact same route between Heroes Square, along Andrássy út, to Kossuth Tér.The Capital Court must have taken into consideration this argument, a possible reason behind the decision to overrule the police decision on the ban of the parade. According to the official statement, there was no basis for the ban. In this case, history repeated itself rather rapidly: last year, the exact same thing happened. The police banned the very same event, for the very same reason, and shortly afterwards, the Capital Court nullified the decision of the police in a similar fashion, so the parade could take place as planned in the first place.
More precisely: almost as planned. The route had to be changed during the final stages of the preparations, in order to avoid meeting the protest that was organized against the parade. This year’s Budapest Pride is scheduled for July 7.
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