Budapest Pride shows us: the more they try to suppress us, the stronger we become

Jaron Soh at Budapest Pride (Image: Jaron Soh)

This weekend, I joined over two hundred thousand people at Budapest’s 30th Pride march. 

This was the city’s biggest ever Pride; and it was more than a celebration, this march was a defiant act of resistance against oppression.

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s administration had officially banned Pride, threatening a fine of up to 200,000 HUF for anyone attending, and promised to deploy facial recognition technology to identify participants.

The government justified the ban under the guise of “protecting children”, claiming that the visibility of the LGBTQIA+ community is dangerous to minors. Their insidious rhetoric, not dissimilar to the language of care used to oppress trans communities in the UK, is being used to justify discrimination, stripping away LGBTQIA+ people’s human rights under

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