Budapest police are bracing for more clashes as nationalist groups plan to disrupt this weekend's Gay Pride Parade, calling it a provocation against Hungarian culture.
The march, part of the city's weeklong Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
Festival, will pass through the heart of the capital. Laszlo Toroczkai, who heads nationalist youth group 64 Counties, is calling on Hungarians to stop it: What we're against is men walking around in pink miniskirts, half naked, kissing each
other and desecrating the Bible on the street. Hungarian children don't need to see that. [much better the kids see violence?]
Toroczkai and fellow protest organizer Gyorgy Budahazy were among
the leaders of anti-government demonstrations in September 2006 that turned into Hungary's worst street violence in 50 years. Authorities first banned the parade, saying it would block traffic, then reversed the decision after Mayor Gabor Demszky
and other politicians protested.
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