Legislation finally sees change (2001 - 2009)

The Prague demonstration was organised by the Gay Initiative (created in 2001 through the transformation of SOHO) and the lesbian organisation Kruh A-klubu. The Bratislava March was organized by People Against Racism Association. The representatives of the Initiative Inakosť presented their demands for legal recognition of the institute of registered partnerships. Subsequently, in the same year, three separate “Marches of Otherness” i. e. marches against homophobia and discrimination against gay and lesbian people took place in Bratislava, Banská Bystrica and Košice.

In June 2002, the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs recommended that it "reiterates its call on the Hungarian Government to repeal the criminal law provisions that discriminate against gays and lesbians ..." Shortly after this recommendation, the Hungarian Constitutional Court ruled in September 2002 that paragraphs 199 and 200 of the Hungarian Criminal Code are unconstitutional and will be removed. Following this judgment of the Constitutional Court, the same age limit of 14 years was introduced for all.

The registered partnerships, which at first seemed to be an obvious step for the nascent democracy, turned out to be a difficult struggle. The government first considered the possibility of incorporating this institute into the Civil Code in 1995, but it was rejected. Between 1997 and 2006, a total of five successive proposals followed parliamentary deliberations, mostly submitted by a group of MPs, and in one case (2001) by the Social Democratic government.