Beneath a blaze of rainbow flags and amid roars of defiance, crowds have gathered are gathering in the Hungarian capital of Budapest, Hungary for the city’s 30th annual Pride march – an event that, this year,

With the support of the city’s liberal mayor, organizers of Budapest Pride took to the streets in defiance of Hungarian Prime Minster Viktor Orban’s effort to ban the event.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s party enacted the ban, trying to create a dilemma for the opposition leader. Now it is the government that faces a tough choice.