An estimated 100,000 people marched in Budapest in Hungary's largest-ever LGBTQ+ Pride event in defiance of a government ban.

Beneath a blaze of rainbow flags and amid roars of defiance, crowds have gathered are gathering in the Hungarian capital of Budapest, Hungary for the city’s 30th annual Pride march – an event that, this year,

Saturday's Budapest Pride march is expected to have drawn record attendance and participation in opposition to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's anti-LGBTQ policies.