Viktor Orbán and the 4000-year-old history of marriage between one man and...
The Budapest Pride, a yearly parade of gays, lesbians, and their supporters, was held on Saturday. About ten years ago these parades normally took place without much to-do, but the growth of the far...
View ArticleA medieval macabre show: Hungarian Jobbik member symbolically hangs Israeli...
Hungarians always complain that foreigners know little or nothing about their country. Well, lately they really can’t complain. Almost a week and a half after Viktor Orbán’s controversial speech the...
View ArticleViktor Orbán: “Hungary is a serious country” where gays are patiently tolerated
First, some background to today’s post. May 17 is the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia. Governments in Europe and North America usually release a statement on the...
View ArticleA week of events organized by the Budapest Pride began last night
After the historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling, many well-known personalities, including Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook and Hillary Clinton on Twitter, displayed the rainbow flag to show their delight with...
View ArticleGay “freaks” threaten Hungarian values
It was twenty years ago, in 1997, that the gay community in Budapest first celebrated “the day of pride.” Shortly after I started Hungarian Spectrum, I wrote a post about the annual event that took...
View ArticlePortrait of a modern party functionary: Katalin Novák
It doesn’t happen too often that a portrait of a Fidesz vice-chairman is carried by a participant in the Budapest Pride parade. But this is exactly what happened yesterday. A large portrait of Katalin...
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