BUDAPEST: Record numbers of people marched in the Budapest Pride parade Saturday (Jun 28), defying a government ban that marked a major pushback against LGBTQ rights in the European Union. Organisers estimated up to 200,

Tens of thousands have gathered for the LGBTQ march in Budapest, despite a police ban and warning from PM Viktor Orban.

However, Lau has started to have troubling second thoughts about this show of affection since the government ramped up its anti-LGBTQ+ campaign.Right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who casts himself as a defender of what he calls Christian values from Western liberalism and whose supporters are mostly rural conservatives,