Earlier this year, Hungary’s parliament passed legislation banning Pride events and allowing the use of facial recognition technology to identify attendees. The ban is supported by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a conservative nationalist and Us President Donald Trump's ally.
Orbán has for years decried "gender insanity" and "woke globalists," The New York Times reports, "distracting attention from Hungary’s faltering economy and revving up his right-wing rural base."