Colorful Pride travels through Brussels: « We are here to defend our rights » (Brussels)

The Brussels Pride is the end of the Pride Week. Around 70,000 participants from the LGBTQIA+community and their ‘Allies’ or allies go through the streets to celebrate and to highlight the LGBTQIA+community.

Maxime walks with her friends in the Pride. « With the rise of the extreme right in Europe, our rights are being taken away. This year’s Pride has an extra meaning for us. We not only want to show who we are today, but also be very present to defend our acquired rights. »

Left before the procession, speeches were held on the Kunstberg. For example, the mayor of the Hungarian capital Budapest came to announce in Brussels that he wants to let the Pride continue at the end of June, despite a ban. « I am coming from Hungary, a country that rebelled in 1956 to the Soviet domination, » said Mayor Gergely Karacsony. « A country that first dropped the iron curtain in 1989, a country where tolerance towards sexual minorities has increased in recent years, a country that loves freedom because it has suffered to be free, and a country where more and more people are ashamed of their government. »

« Attack on the fundamental rights »

« The ban on the Pride is only the last attack on the fundamental rights of the Hungarian citizens, » Karacsony continued. « But the government cannot prohibit the Budapest Pride, because love and freedom cannot be banned. On 28 June the Budapest Pride will continue, and I invite everyone to share it with it and make it the greatest, most colorful, most international pride ever. »

The president of the Budapest Pride, Viktória Radványi, also looked at the European Institutions: “Since the Pride was banned two months ago, we have not seen any action from the European Commission. If the committee banned the law that all lgbtqia+manifestations in Hungary, will not be forbidden to the Commission, they will not be fever, Zebouden is committed, Zebougy will be mandal, Zebougy will be mandable, Zebouden is committed, Zingopese will not be mandable, Zingopese will be mandable, Zebougy is not forbidden, Zebouden is forbidden to be fond of which will be mandable, which will not be mandal, Zijtemopese is notpaped, she will not be mandal, Zingopese is forbidden, she is mandal for the same to be capital. limiting basic rights of European citizens. « 

« The pride is not only a party, it is also resistance and courage, » said a Romanian activist. “Pride is our answer to extremism that is increasing everywhere in the world. Tomorrow we prefer a new president in Romania, and we have to choose between the EU and the extreme right. Just this year we are also celebrating the twentieth birthday of the Bucharest Pride. I invite you all on 7 June to compete for gay, now has the EU, the EU, the EU has held the eu, the EU, the EU, the EU. Do the We EU need again. « 

After the speeches, the procession left for the city center. The police use extra agents, just like citizen agents to guarantee the safety of the partygoers. Around 15.45 a few manifest notes were removed from the procession « because they hindered the progress of the procession », but no one was arrested.