Orban's inability to prevent last year's Pride protests--attended by [100k] despite being banned--was a turning point.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️
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Orban's inability to prevent last year's Pride protests—attended by [100k] despite being banned—was a turning point in his authoritarian grip of the country.

Queer people are always leading the fight against authoritarianism, as we are often its first targets. Never cower to fear.

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4:35 PM · Apr 12, 2026

Orban's inability to prevent last year's Pride protests—attended by 300k despite being banned—was a turning point in his authoritarian grip of the country.

Queer people are always leading the fight against authoritarianism, as we are often its first targets. Never cower to fear.

— mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ (@mady.cat) 2026-04-12T20:35:12.176Z

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️
‪@mady.cat‬

Minor correction/misspeak--the protests were around 100k, which is still a huge number for a banned event.

But it's not an exaggeration to say that queer organizers defeating Orban's crackdown on Pride last year showed that his power could be defeated with enough solidarity and defiance.

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7:34 PM · Apr 12, 2026

Minor correction/misspeak--the protests were around 100k, which is still a huge number for a banned event.

But it's not an exaggeration to say that queer organizers defeating Orban's crackdown on Pride last year showed that his power could be defeated with enough solidarity and defiance.

— mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ (@mady.cat) 2026-04-12T23:34:19.249Z

[Skittles]

1. LOVE IT

[Deuxcents]

2. People come in all shapes n sizes and to try and exclude any of us is not tolerated..it's just not acceptable

Anywhere and they can try to make all kinds of laws it but they cannot legislate how people believe

[magicarpet]

3. Extremist KKKrishtun Nationalism,....

Does not just reside in the USA. Hungary and Russia are infected by Old Testament KKKrishtun Orthodoxies also.

Right-wing churches have long been a bane and a thorn in the side to a harmonious and civilized secular society.

[Cha]

4. Beautifully said.. TY & Maddie...