“When it comes to pronouns, we don’t even have any!” said Tibor Várady, owner of Espresso Embassy, a popular cafe and specialty coffee shop in downtown Budapest. Várady’s comment is a joking reference to his native Hungarian, a famously difficult language that has no equivalents for the English pronouns “he” and “she,” and the atmosphere in Budapest, which is years, perhaps decades, behind the vanguard of left-wing cultural politics in the United States. As we spoke, Várady was closing the cafe early so he and his staff could march in this year’s Budapest gay pride parade, the latest flashpoint to emerge in Hungarian politics.