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Pink picnic was the first public event of the Hungarian LGBT movement, before the Budapest Pride festivals. The first Pink Piknic was held on 13th September 1992, on Hármashatár-hegyen and was attended by 300 people. Later during the early 2000's it was held in different places and eventually became part of LGBT festivals.

History
The first Pink Picnic was organised jointly by the ELTE Gay Action Group, Homérosz Egyesület, Lambda Budapest Baráti Társaság, the editors of Mások, Miskolci Homeros, the Lesbian and Gay Jewish Group Leszbikus és Gay Zsidók Csoportja and the “Wandering/Roaming/Roving Others” VándorMások, in the afternoon to evening of 13th September 1992. It was held at Hármashatár-hegy, which was a former quarry in the Újlak Mountain. It was initiated by the newspaper Mások or "Others" where it was advertised and later where an article was published about the event. The place was chosen with the help of Gosztony Zsigmond, the main tour guide of VándorMások. At the event pink triangles glued to posts showed the way and a sheet labelled with the words "Pink Picnic" was made (the banner is kept at the Háttér Archívum, the archives of the Háttér Society. 300 participants attended the first Pink Picnic. In addition to organisers of the picnic, there was a Renaissance and Baroque Chamber Music Concert (by the Homo Muzsikus band, who formed for this occasion), there was anonymous HIV-testing, a buffet, a steeplechase, and copies of the Mások newspaper, together with publications and videos of Connection Bt., which were placed on fold-up tables or on blankets laid on the ground for sale.