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Chapters: Budapest Pride. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 87. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Budapest Pride is Hungary's largest annual LGBT event. It has historically been known under several names, including Budapest Gay Dignity Procession (Hungarian: ) or simply "happy parade" (Hungarian: ). The parade has taken place each year since 1997, usually on the first Saturday of July, proceeding along Budapests most expansive thoroughfare, Andrássy Avenue, between the City Park (Városliget) and Elizabeth Square (Erzsébet tér). Though much smaller in scale than similar gay pride parades in Western Europe and the Americas, between a thousand and two thousand marchers typically participate in the Budapest procession. Radical right-wing demonstrators and hooligans have severely disrupted the Budapest gay parades held in 2007 and 2008, casting uncertainty over the future of the event. In March 2010 the date of the Budapest Pride 2010 had been announced and it will be the 15th anniversary of the event, held between 4 and 11 July 2010 (one week LGBT cultural fasival with pride marching on saturday). There was only a smattering of public protest against the first eleven Budapest gay parades, until the one held in July 2007. In 2003, prominent right-wing radical György Budaházy and a group of about 30 anti-gay protestors blew whistles and chanted slogans such as "dirty queers" at marchers as the parade crossed the Elizabeth Bridge. In 2004, a few activists from the center-right Christian-Democratic Hungarian Democratic Forum political party stood along the route of the procession blowing whistles and holding signs displaying quotations from the Bible, while police took one man into custody for throwing a rock at an officer at the beginning of the parade. In 2005, about 10 neo-Nazis tau...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=18367052