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5th July, 2010

Budapest Pride festival kicks off



The 15th Budapest Pride lesbian, gay, bisexual and transvestite film and cultural festival began at Művész cinema on Teréz körút in Budapest’s Sixth District under heavy police security arrangements Sunday evening.

US ambassador Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis welcomed those present in Hungarian and quoted the words of Thomas Jefferson from the US Constitution. British ambassador Greg Dorey sent a video message to the festival. Politics Can Be Different (LMP) caucus leader András Schiffer attended the event.


Sources regularly consulted, with abbreviations used in text: Népszabadság (N); Magyar Hírlap (MH); Világgazdaság (VG); Napi Gazdaság (NG); Magyar Nemzet (MN); Népszava (Nsz); Kossuth Rádió news (KR); nightly TV news (TV).

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