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Around 100,000 march in Budapest Pride in open defiance of Hungary’s ban

By JUSTIN SPIKE BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Around 100,000 people defied a government ban and police orders Saturday to march in what organizers called the largest LGBTQ+ Pride event in Hungary’s history in an open rebuke of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government. Marchers gambled with potential police intervention and heavy fines to participate in the