However, Lau has started to have troubling second thoughts about this show of affection since the government ramped up its anti-LGBTQ+ campaign.Right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who casts himself as a defender of what he calls Christian values from Western liberalism and whose supporters are mostly rural conservatives,

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has issued a stark ultimatum: anyone participating in Saturday’s Pride march in Budapest should prepare to face “clear legal consequences,” including criminal prosecution and possible prison time.