(ANSA) – ROME, JUN 27 – Roman street artist Laika has painted a mural inn Budapest showing a ‘queer’ version of Prime Minister Viktor Orban on the eve of the Gay Pride march the hardline rightist strongman has banned.
The mural shows Orbàn in queer ‘dress’, with a skirt, pink heels, lipstick, and a tie with the colours of the battle of trans people, while waving a rainbow flag in the air.
The work appeared in the centre of Budapest, signed by the masked female artist from Rome, entitled “Another Hungary is Possible”.
On the hem of the skirt you can also read the words “Free Maja”, in homage to a non-binary anti-fascist militant detained in Hungary.
A clear message was posted by the artist on social media on the eve of the Budapest Pride event.
“‘Dear Viktor, I dreamed that you were taking to the streets too, for civil rights, for the freedom to be what you want, what you are. You were also taking to the streets to defend the rule of law and democracy, against crude nationalisms and against far-right groups in your country. Against mistreatment in prisons. You were taking to the streets to defend human rights… Then I woke up….”, Laika wrote, publishing photos of her new poster.
“Street art, however, has the power to show the impossible, the utopian. And above all, it has the power to make sovereignists like you angry. Being here in Budapest today is a risk, but it is also necessary”, she underlined.
“It is important not only for the Hungarian LGBTQIA+ community, but for the whole of Europe. It is important to defend democracy and human rights. “Tomorrow I will be incognito at the demonstration and I hope to see many of you. The homophobic and xenophobic black wave will not overwhelm us. We are the tide”, concluded the artist’s post, accompanied by the song Express Yourself by Madonna.
Orban has threatened anyone who shows up Saturday with “legal consequences”. (ANSA).
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The mural shows Orbàn in queer ‘dress’, with a skirt, pink heels, lipstick, and a tie with the colours of the battle of trans people, while waving a rainbow flag in the air.
The work appeared in the centre of Budapest, signed by the masked female artist from Rome, entitled “Another Hungary is Possible”.
On the hem of the skirt you can also read the words “Free Maja”, in homage to a non-binary anti-fascist militant detained in Hungary.
A clear message was posted by the artist on social media on the eve of the Budapest Pride event.
“‘Dear Viktor, I dreamed that you were taking to the streets too, for civil rights, for the freedom to be what you want, what you are. You were also taking to the streets to defend the rule of law and democracy, against crude nationalisms and against far-right groups in your country. Against mistreatment in prisons. You were taking to the streets to defend human rights… Then I woke up….”, Laika wrote, publishing photos of her new poster.
“Street art, however, has the power to show the impossible, the utopian. And above all, it has the power to make sovereignists like you angry. Being here in Budapest today is a risk, but it is also necessary”, she underlined.
“It is important not only for the Hungarian LGBTQIA+ community, but for the whole of Europe. It is important to defend democracy and human rights. “Tomorrow I will be incognito at the demonstration and I hope to see many of you. The homophobic and xenophobic black wave will not overwhelm us. We are the tide”, concluded the artist’s post, accompanied by the song Express Yourself by Madonna.
Orban has threatened anyone who shows up Saturday with “legal consequences”. (ANSA).
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