{"id":3563,"date":"2014-07-12T20:19:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T17:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/2014\/07\/straipsnis-delfi-apie-budapesto-pride-eitynes-2\/"},"modified":"2016-11-13T16:57:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T14:57:12","slug":"straipsnis-delfi-apie-budapesto-pride-eitynes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/2014\/07\/straipsnis-delfi-apie-budapesto-pride-eitynes\/","title":{"rendered":"Article about Budapest Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is always interesting to compare events. Last year the Baltic Pride, the annual march for LGBT rights, held in the Baltic capitals on a rotating basis, aroused many discussions in Lithuania, but when it takes place in the other Baltic capitals, we usually only see a photo or two. This year I had a chance to report from a similar demonstration in Budapest. The leading Lithuanian news portal Delfi published<\/a> my article with photos.<\/p>\n

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I went to report on the march with a French colleague, who is fluent in Hungarian. With her press card, she could cross the fenced boundaries and interview counter-demonstrators. I understand Hungarian somewhat (after all, I lived here for a year), but I couldn’t ask questions on my own, so I merely listened and observed. There were many interesting characters in the counter-demo. When I got home, I depicted them in this comic. I found it quite interesting that the characters were exactly the same as in Lithuania – I guess elsewhere as well. Of course, the flying MP counter-demonstrator in Vilnius was more iconic than the kid who tried to jump the fence in Budapest, but these are details.<\/p>\n

\"Budapest<\/a>

Budapest anti-pride<\/p><\/div>\n

The next day I found photos, showing what they looked like<\/a> (I could only observe them from behind a fence, because we came from the side of the Pride).<\/p>\n

I quite liked drawing my own illustrations for blog entries, and I think I should do it again. On the blog, unlike in journalistic articles, I can express my attitude freely (of course, I don’t hide it, but I adhere to professional standards and waited with posting this until my article was off the front page).<\/p>\n

I’ve been intensively learning to draw lately, which is useful when I can’t take photos or photography is not useful to illustrate my stories. This idea was inspired by a writer friend, who met an illustrator on a trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is always interesting to compare events. Last year the Baltic Pride, the annual march for LGBT rights, held in the Baltic capitals on a rotating basis, aroused many discussions in Lithuania, but when it takes place in the other Baltic capitals, we usually only see a photo or two. This year I had a chance to report from a … <\/p>\n

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