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Police to
try to keep the peace between Gay Pride parade & demonstrators
Far-right
activists György Budaházy and László Toroczkai made an online appeal on
kuruc.info for "Hungarian patriots" to go to Oktogon in Budapest on 5
July to demonstrate against this year's gay pride event.
Morality counter-demo
"We
will not tolerate foreign perverts of whatever colour forcing their alien and
sick world onto Hungary," they wrote on the website.
The
Rendszerváltó Fórum (System Change Forum) has been given permission to
demonstrate on the same day and along the same route as the Gay Pride parade
from Deák tér along Andrásy út to Felvonulási tér.
On its
website the organisation says that it is organising a parade of what it
describes as "healthy and morally acceptable people" to show that Hungary's
future is secured by "productive pair relationships, reproducing and
well-functioning families".
Budapest
Police spokeswoman Éva Tafferner said that the police will do everything in its
power to prevent attacks on homosexuals and clashes between demonstrators and
counter-demonstrators.
Permit originally denied
Police
chief Gábor Tóth originally declined the permit for the Gay Pride parade,
saying it would obstruct public transport and road traffic, but turned over
that decision within a day after loud criticism from human rights organisations
and politicians including Mayor Gábor Demszky.
Not welcome
For the
last 13 years in Budapest Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender/transsexual
groups have paraded through the streets during the Gay Pride festival. It has
never received a warm reception with complaints over the actions and costumes
of participants being too provacative and the music too loud.
Last year
participants were pelted with eggs and assaulted. Twenty cases were reported to
police including a German couple who were beaten up by skinheads, despite
police protection.
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