Viktor Orbán's government has officially banned Budapest Pride , the demonstration to claim the rights of the LGBTQIA+ community, already severely tested by the laws of the Hungarian executive. The police have now formally banned the Pride march, scheduled for June 28, but the organizers, supported by several MEPs who have confirmed their participation, have announced that they will do so anyway.
Who is leaving you? ecipa risks fines of up to 500 euros and the police could even use facial recognition for identification. There are also three Sardinian activists from the Tonino Pascali-Sardegna Radicale Association among those who will leave for the Hungarian capital in solidarity with those who simply ask for rights: Gabriele Casanova, Laura Di Napoli and Marco Marras will be taking the plane to the Hungarian capital in a few days.
"Orbán's regime is trying to erase lgbtqia+ subjectivities, so we will bring the body as a fight and liberation ," says Casanova, coordinator of the association together with Di Napoli, " civil disobedience is our instrument of transnational struggle: to liberate bodies, minds and consciences. Where they oppress, we love. And love disarms more than a thousand laws ." Di Napoli adds: "We will go to defend a Europe that, although fragile, remains the only refuge for lgbtqia+ people. A Europe of rights, not borders. Rights are not concessions, but the living substance of democracy, the measure of its dignity."
On Go fund me, the three activists have started a fundraiser entitled “The Price of Pride: Let's Defend Budapest Pride”, to pay any fines they may receive and, if there are any extra funds, they will be donated to the Budapest Pride organization, which due to the current law will no longer be able to receive public subsidies.