Hungarian Pride parade ban

On 18 March 2025, the Hungarian Parliament voted in favor of a bill which bans holding or attending assemblies that violate the law on the protection of children, which forbids promoting or displaying homosexuality or gender change to persons under the age of 18, therefore banning Pride parades. Participants may receive a fine ranging from 6,500 forints (€16) to 200,000 forints (€500), while organizers can face up to one year in prison. The bill also authorizes police to use facial recognition systems to identify participants.

Protests broke out in multiple Hungarian and Western European cities, with hundreds or thousands of protestors attending. Independent MP Ákos Hadházy organized a protest every week between 25 March and 19 July 2025.

The 2025 Budapest Pride was held on 28 June despite the police banning it, and between 100,000 and 200,000 people were present, many of whom were first-timers who attended not only in support of sexual minorities' rights, but also for the country's democratic future. This parade became Hungary's largest anti-government demonstration in years, with the organizers saying participants had arrived from 30 different countries. The police stated that they will not start procedures against participants. Another Pride march was held on 4 October with seven to eight thousand attendees in Pécs, the only rural city that holds an annual Pride parade.