Budapest Pride: Pride March Draws Record Number of Participants The 26th Budapest Pride Festival wound up on Saturday with a march organised with the slogan “Claim back your future!”. A number of counter-demonstrations took place at the same time. The march started at Madách Imre Square, in the centre of the Pest side of the city, and ended in a park in Tabán, on the other side of the river Danube on the Buda side. Prior to the march, Ádám Csikós, one of the Budapest Pride organisers, said the LGBT community has been impacted by an “unprecedented disenfranchisement”. He stressed they would not allow themselves to be treated as “second-class citizens” and acknowledged the courage of all of the marchers.