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A city resolution published on September 18 blocks events in public space from November 6 to 13 for Pope Leo XIV's trip to Argentina. That covers the date of the 35th Marcha del Orgullo, one of the largest Prides in the world. Organisers have refused to move it.
A year after 200,000 defied a government ban, Budapest Pride returned on June 27 — this time legal, police-protected, and marching in 38°C heat through a country whose politics have shifted underneath it.
Serbian police unlawfully banned a Pride event in the city of Kruševac, exposing a gap the capital's well-protected parade hides: outside Belgrade, the right to assemble as a queer person is still negotiable.
Hungarian prosecutors have dropped criminal charges against Mayor Gergely Karácsony for organising the banned 2025 Pride march, citing April's EU court ruling. The man who said freedom can't be banned in Budapest just won.
A year after Orbán's government banned it and 200,000 people marched anyway, Hungarian police have formally approved the 31st Budapest Pride — and pushed the counter-protests away from the route.
