PFLAG in short

In case if you don't exactly know the abbreviation PFLAG: parents and friends of gay & lesbian. (Yepp, it lacks a couple of letters T, B, Q, whatever... but only in its name, to tell their defense.) It is a community with a couple hundred thousand members. Actually, it is not only a community but a non-profit organization.  What do they do? As you may probably see in the picture, they celebrate the diversity since they envisioned a society...

Budapest Pride March is ON!!!

Pride march is on -- surprisingly... or NOT. Last Friday, the court of Budapest has reportedly overruled the police’s decision not to grant a license for this year's pride march. Hurrah, the right to assembly (as a fundamental right) is still acknowledged -- the court said and ensured that the police had no legal grounds on which to deny the application. I still can not believe that we (as organizers) had to undergo exactly the same procedure as last year (as the police tried to block the march in 2011 as well...) What can I say? Nice try? No... it is such a shame that such things can happen (and does happen) in this country. The police argued...

Society fails

Good perspective... and so true...

...about the proposals submitted by the Hungarian far-right party

"We will not stand by!" -- the title itself refers to our answer -- what the hell is going on in this country?  We (as organizers of Budapest Pride) have just published our statement about the proposals submitted by Jobbik which is the far-right party in Hungary. (link here) Two days ago, on April 10, Jobbik representative Mirkóczki Ádám submitted a law proposal and two proposed amendments to the new constitution of Hungary that would, if accepted, amend the media law, the criminal code, advertising laws, and the constitution to make the very existence of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people in Hungary criminal and...

Police refuse to grant permission for this year's Budapest Pride march

Let's see what happened so far... As you may know, I'm one of the organizers of the Budapest Pride -- so the following press release (link here) was partly written by me and translated by another organizer.  As an answer to the police's step we've made a video asking if they really think we are going to disappear. They can't ban us and we will be at the Budapest Pride!! Enjoy the background music: Blur :)  The Budapest Police Department has refused to grant permission for this year's Budapest Pride march. The march had been announced for July 7, 2012, with a route from City Park to Alkotmány Street along Andrássy...