On the other hand, Hungary banned Pride, installed face recognition cameras, threatened everyone with fines and the organisers with prison.

It became the biggest mass event ever. Literally there has never been any civil event that was bigger than that. 5% of the population was there, in one place, in the capital.

The police tried at one point to prevent passge or control the crowd, but they were so overwhelmed that they just got ignored. So were the right wing counterprotests.

Then the government started to try and fine at least the organisers, but people went up and started reporting themselves en masse, saying they were organisers since they asked friends to come.

Nobody got punished, those in power were humiliated, people realised they have power.

If the home of democratic backslide and illiberal "democracy" can do it, so can you.