“The cruel anti-refugee policies enacted starting on Day One of the second Trump Administration have not only illegally abandoned U.S. commitments to the right to asylum, they are already costing LGBTQI+ lives in the service of the Administration’s authoritarian policy agenda.”

“In the Project 2025 playbook, Donald Trump & his advisors made it clear that attacks on LGBTQI+ people and on immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers would be the spearhead of their assault on democracy, human rights, and the rule of law for all.” -- Ian Lekus, CGE Policy & Communications Officer

“This is a major legal step,” said Rémy Bonny, Executive Director of Forbidden Colours. “For the first time, the Court is invited to confirm a self-standing Article 2 violation. It proves that Hungary’s actions are not a policy disagreement — they are an attack on the very foundations of the Union.”

This ruling is not the end of the legal road, nor does it automatically repeal the ban on Budapest Pride that violates Hungarians' fundamental rights to freedom of speech & assembly. But it is a huge step forward in halting Viktor Orbán's use of homophobia & transphobia to advance authoritarianism.