Roxane Gay’s Complited “Hunger” | The New Yorker

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• GAY VS HUNGRY - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?GAY | HUNGRY |AS A NOUN GAYIS NAPE.AS A VERB GAYIS TO CROW.AS AN ADJECTIVE HUNGRY ISAFFECTED BY HUNGER; SIRG OF FOOD; HAVG A PHYSIL NEED FOR FOOD.GAYENGLISHPROPER NOUN(EN PROPER NOUN), ORIGALLY A NICKNAME FOR A CHEERFUL OR LIVELY OM THE WORD GAY, "JOYFUL"; RARE TODAY.. ALSO A SHORTENED FORM OF GABRIEL, GAYLORD AND SIAR NAM, OR TRANSFERRED OM THE SURNAME.* 1992 , UNTO THE SONS , BALLANTE BOOKS 1993, ISBN 0804110336, PAGE 15- - - MY FATHER'S FATHER, GAETANO TALE ( WHOSE NAME I HERED AFTER MY BIRTH 1932, THE ANGLICIZED OM OF "GAY "), WAS AN ATYPILLY FEARLS TRAVELER,* 2004 , BAD DIRT , FOURTH ESTATE, ISBN 0007196911, PAGE 32"MR GAY BRAWLS. WHAT A NAME.""IT DIDN'T E TO MEAN WHAT MEANS NOW. PLENTY WERE NAMED GAY'. EVEN NEVADA. WAS OLD ' GAY PCH HAD A GAS STATN WNEMUC. NOBODY THOUGHT NOTH ABOUT AND HE RAISED A RAILROAD R OF KIDS.- - -ANAGRAMS*HUNGRY
• GAYS HUNGARY FACG CREASED ERNMENT HOSTILY, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
• THIS EUROPEAN COUNTRY COULD BE THE NEXT ANTI-LGBTQ HELL ZONEGAY ABANDONTHE FAR-RIGHT ERNMENT OF THIS UNTRY HAS BEEN SYSTEMATILLY ERODG GAY RIGHTS FOR SOME TIME, BUT THE LOOMG APRIL 3 ELECTN ULD SEE THEM WOUND BACK EVEN FURTHER.NATTE DE VISSERPUBLISHED MAR. 29, 2022 4:04AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THOMAS LEVSON/THE DAILY BEAST/GETTYAS RSIA’S BLOODY VASN VASTAT NEIGHBORG UKRAE AND REFUGE FLOOD TO HUNGARY, THE GAY MUNY BUDAPT IS FIGHTG THE CREASGLY REPRSIVE POLICI OF S FAR-RIGHT FISZ ERNMENT. PRIME MISTER VIKTOR ORBáN, UNTIL RECENTLY AN AVID SUPPORTER OF VLADIMIR PUT, HAS BEEN CHARGE HUNGARY SCE 2010. LIKE PUT, HE TRODUCED SEVERAL LAWS THAT TENSIFIED THE PRSURE ON THE LGBT+ MUNY AND NSIRS HOMOSEXUALY PATIBLE WH CHRISTIAN VALU. IN THE UPG ELECTNS ON APRIL 3, ORBáN’S FISZ PARTY HAS A GOOD CHANCE OF BEG REELECTED.“ORBáN’S POLICY THE LAST 12 YEARS HAS ALWAYS BEEN TO PICK A TARGET AND THEN START TO SHOOT,” ANNA SZLAVI, -FOUNR OF THE QL WORK, AN ANIZATN AND WEBSE FOR GAY WOMEN HUNGARY, TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. SHE’S STG WH HER AMERIN LIFE-PARTNER AMY SOTO AT THE WHY NOT CAFE, A GAY-IENDLY HAVEN ON THE BANKS OF THE RIVER DANUBE BUDAPT. “IN 2021 THE SO-LLED ‘PEDOPHILE LAW’ WAS TRODUCED, WHICH BASILLY KD OF NFLATED THE LGBT+ [MUNY] WH PEDOPHIL,” SZLAVI SAYS. “ORBáN REPEATEDLY UPHOLDS THIS IA THAT [BEG] LGBT IS AN ABNORMAL THG AND ’S OK TO EQUATE THEM WH PEDOPHIL.” THE NEW LAW, WHICH FORMALIZ THE CENSORSHIP OF RMATN ABOUT LGBT+ PEOPLE, IS THE LATT STEP A SERI OF LEGAL CLAMPDOWNS ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF THE UNTRY’S QUEER MUNY. IT SENTIALLY OUTLAWS ALL NTENT THAT PORTRAYS NON-HETEROSEXUAL RELATNSHIPS FOR PEOPLE UP TO THE AGE OF 18. BEE OF , TNAL PROGRAMS SCHOOLS, SUPPORT WEBS OR RMATNAL CHANNELS ABOUT THE LGBT+ MUNY ARE NOW BANNED. EVEN CHILDREN’S BOOKS WH REFERENC TO GAY UPL ARE FORCIBLY HIDN AWAY BOOKSTOR.CASE POT: THE CHILDREN’S BOOK A FAIRYTALE FOR EVERYONE, PUBLISHED BY THE LBIAN AND BISEXUAL ANIZATN LABRISZ. “THE BOOK NTAS STORI OF DIVERSY, NOT JT LGBT+ STORI. IT’S ALSO ABOUT HOMELSNS AND ABOUT ETHNIC ISSU,” SZLAVI SAYS. IT TAK A HIGHLY MOTIVATED BUYER TO TRACK DOWN THE BOOK UNR THE CURRENT LEGAL NSTRATS. IN A BRANCH OF THE LIBRI BOOKSTORE CHA LOTED A SHOPPG MALL JT OUTSI THE CENTER OF BUDAPT, FDG A FAIRYTALE FOR EVERYONE FEELS LIKE TAKG A STEP TO ILLEGALY. FIRSTLY, AN EMPLOYEE IS LIKELY TO MISUNRSTAND WHAT YOU ARE LOOKG FOR, SENDG YOU STRAIGHT TO BOOKS ON FAIRYTAL. BUT THAT’S NOT WHERE N BE FOUND. IT’S TUCKED AWAY BEHD STACKS OF OTHER BOOKS, UNTRACEABLE TO ANYONE NOT FAIAR WH THE NER WORKGS OF THE STORE. RSIAN PRINT VLADIMIR PUT SHAK HANDS WH HUNGARY'S PRIME MISTER VIKTOR ORBAN DURG THEIR MEETG AT THE KREML MOSW ON JULY 15, 2018.YURI KADOBNOV/AFP VIA GETTY IMAG THE SO-LLED PEDOPHILE LAW IS JT THE LATT ADMISTRATIVE STEP SIGNALG A MUCH WIR POLICY TO ENSNARE AND MARGALIZE MORI THE UNTRY, SAYS AMNTY INTERNATNAL’S HUNGARY DIRECTOR ARON DEMETER. HUNGARY HAS ALL SORTS OF POLICI PLACE TO PROTECT CERTA GROUPS AND IS DISENANCHISG OTHERS. ORBáN, SAYS DEMETER, “IS PROTECTG CHILDREN AND FAI AND THE ‘OLD TRADNAL EUROPE’ AS OUR PRIME MISTER LIK TO LL , WHICH IS BASILLY A VERY TRADNAL, VERY WHE, HUNGARIAN MUNY.” IT AFFECTS REFUGE, ASYLUM SEEKERS AND IMMIGRANTS, AS WELL AS MEMBERS OF THE LGBT+ MUNY. FOR THEM, MEANS THAT THE “SAME RIGHTS LIKE EQUAL MARRIAGE, ADOPTN AND BASILLY ANY KD OF APPEARANCE PUBLIC LIFE,” ARE NOW OUT OF THE QUTN, DEMETER SAYS. “THIS IS THE LEVEL OF SANY WE’RE ALG WH.” SUPPORTERS OF THE FISZ ERNMENT APPEAR TO HAVE NO PROBLEM WH THE NEW LEGISLATN. THERE IS A SUBSTANTIAL PART OF THE HUNGARIAN POPULATN THAT FEELS THE CLAMPDOWN ON THE GAY MUNY IS FOR THE BT. REGISTERED CY GUI FERI THKS THE NEW LAWS ARE A GOOD THG. IT PROTECTS CHILDREN OM THE PROPAGANDA BY MEMBERS OF THE LGBT+ MUNY, HE BELIEV. “IT’S ONLY A LE AGAST THE PROPAGANDA OM THE LGBTQ; TO PREVENT THEM OM SPREADG THEIR PEDOPHILE PROPAGANDA DAYRE CENTERS AND PRIMARY SCHOOLS. I'VE SEEN FILMS ABOUT ,” FERI ASSUR, “IT’S REALLY HAPPENG.” FERI ARGU THE LAW IS THERE TO PROTECT THE KIDS. “AFTER THEY TURN 18, THEY N CHOOSE TO BE GAY.” TO HIM, THERE IS NO POT ARGUG THE LACK OF CHOICE THE MATTER, BEE ACRDG TO HUNGARY’S LEADG PARTY, HOMOSEXUALY DO NOT EXIST, AND IS THEREFORE A MATTER OF PERSONAL CHOICE.BUDAPT WAS BUILT ALONG TWO SIS OF THE DANUBE RIVER AND A NUMBER OF BRIDG HAVE UNED THE WTERN BANK OF BUDA WH THE EASTERN SI OF PT SCE 1873. ITS CENTER IS FILLED WH MONUMENTAL CY BLOCKS AND HUGE NEOCLASSIL ERNMENT BUILDGS. THEY WERE BUILT TO IMPRS, AND MAYBE TO TIMIDATE A LTLE AS WELL. GREY AND TOWERG, THEY LOOK LIKE FORTIFITNS. THE HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENT BUILDGS SEEM ANCIENT, BUT WERE FACT BUILT THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY. MOST BUILDGS BUDAPT ARE NO OLR. THEY ARE A TTAMENT TO THE BLOODY PAST OF HUNGARY, A UNTRY THAT HAS BEEN VAD AND STROYED MANY TIM.IT’S WHY THE STATU OF FORMER VARS ARE STILL NEATLY STACKED BUDAPT’S CELLARS, CY GUI FERI TELLS S VISORS. GIANT BRONZE STATU OF STAL AND LEN ARE ALL KEPT ONE PLACE. “AFTER ALL,” FERI SAYS, “YOU NEVER KNOW. THE RSIANS MAY BE BACK. HUNGARIANS ARE ALWAYS PREPARED FOR ANYTHG. AND NOW THE RSIANS HAVE VAD THEIR NEIGHBORS.” BUT WHAT FERI FEARS JT AS MUCH IS THE ALLEGED THREAT OM WH—WHAT HE LLS, “THE MOGRAPHIC PROBLEM.” FOR UKRAIAN REFUGE WH A SIAR RELIG AND ETHNIC BACKGROUND, HUNGARY’S DOORS ARE OFTEN SWUNG WI OPEN, BUT FOR THE ‘OTHER KD’ OF REFUGE, THEY REMA FIRMLY SHUT. “WE ARE DOG VERY WELL THE LAST 12 YEARS SCE ORBáN HAS BEEN POWER,” FERI SAYS. “HE HAS BUILT A FENCE TO KEEP THE IMMIGRANTS OUT, AND WE ARE PAYG FOR THAT OURSELV.” DEMONSTRATORS MARCH ON LIBERTY BRIDGE DURG THE ANNUAL PRI PARA BUDAPT, HUNGARY, ON SATURDAY, JULY 24, 2021.AKOS STILLER/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAG THE FENCE IS NOT THE ONLY WAY ORBáN IS TRYG TO SAFEGUARD HIS IA OF WHAT HE THKS THE HUNGARIAN POPULATN SHOULD LOOK LIKE. FERI HAS THREE KIDS, AND THAT’S NO CINCE. “PEOPLE WH THREE KIDS GET A LOT OF MONEY OM THE ERNMENT,” FERI EXPLAS. “WH EVERY KID YOU GET EXTRA MONEY.” LIFE WHOUT THIS ERNMENT GRANT IS DIFFICULT, THE GUI SAYS. “BUT WH THE MONEY FOR CHILDREN YOU ARE WELL OFF. IT’S ORBáN’S WAY TO MAKE SURE HUNGARY STAYS HUNGARIAN.” FG A SOCIETY BASED ON CERTA CHARACTERISTICS AND ETHNICI AND EXCLUDG OTHERS, IS OFTEN REFERRED TO AS “THE SOLUTN TO THE MOGRAPHIC PROBLEM.” IT’S A DOG WHISTLE FOR A FAR-RIGHT AGENDA WH IALS FOR A SOCIETY WHICH PEOPLE LIKE SZLAVI AND SOTO HAVE NO PLACE.SZLAVI AND SOTO SAY THEY DON’T WANT CHILDREN. BUT IF THEY DID, A NORMAL FAY LIFE WOULD BE OUT OF THE QUTN, BEE HUNGARY HAS OUTLAWED -VRO FERTILIZATN FOR LBIAN AND GAY UPL, AND SGLE PARENTS N’T ADOPT HERE. IT FORC GAY UPL TO MAKE DIFFICULT CISNS; NOT TO HAVE CHILDREN AT ALL, OR TAKG THE RISK OF HAVG A CHILD ILLEGALLY, WH A WILLG SPERM DONOR. “I GUS BACK THE STAT YOU WOULD LL THE ‘TURKEY BASTER METHOD,’ BASILLY IVF, BUT AT HOME,” SOTO SAYS. HOWEVER, THE NON-BLOGIL PARENT HUNGARY HAS NO RIGHTS TO THE CHILD.IN 2020, HUNGARY PASSED A NEW LAW AGAST TRANS PEOPLE, WHICH SOLELY TERM SEX BASED ON CHROMOSOM AND PREVENTS PEOPLE OM CHANGG THEIR BIRTH NAME. “I HAVE A LOT OF TRANS IENDS.” SOTO SAYS. “MANY HAVE LEFT THE UNTRY SCE THE NEW LAWS. THEY WERE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO HAVE JOBS AND TN WHERE THEY ULD GET JOBS ABROAD. OTHERS ARE SAVG MONEY. AS FAR AS I HEAR OM THE TRANS MUNY, THEY DON’T SEE ANY FUTURE HERE. FOR THE LBIAN MUNY, WELL, IF YOU WANT ANY KD OF FAY, YOU ARE GONNA HAVE TO DO SOMETHG ILLEGAL TO MAKE HAPPEN.”LIKE HUNGARY, A RERD NUMBER OF ANTI-LGBT+ LEGISLATN HAS SWEPT DIFFERENT U.S. STAT RECENT YEARS. MOST RECENTLY, FLORIDA ADOPTED A LAW UNNNILY SIAR TO HUNGARY’S SO-LLED ‘PEDOPHILE LAW.’ DEFENDG THE LAW, NICKNAMED THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW, GOVERNOR RON DANTIS ECHOED THE SAME ARGUMENTS FISZ OFTEN , SAYG: “FOR GRAS PRE-K THROUGH [GRA] THREE. AND WE’RE GONNA MAKE SURE THAT PARENTS ARE ABLE TO SEND THEIR KIDS TO KRGARTEN, WHOUT HAVG SOME OF THIS STUFF JECTED TO THEIR SCHOOL CURRICULUM.” MEANWHILE TEXAS, GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT EQUAT GENR AFFIRMG SUPPORT FOR TRANS TEENS WH CHILD ABE. SCE THE NEW LAWS WERE PASSED HUNGARY, HATE CINTS AND CRIM HAVE BEEN ON THE RISE. “ONE OF OUR CLOSE PARTNER ANIZATNS, HATTER, HAS A HOTLE FOR HATE CINT VICTIMS AND THEY REPORT AN CREASED LEVEL OF G LLS,” DEMETER SAYS. “OUR WORKG THEORY IS THAT THE LAW MA ‘OK’ TO BE VLENTLY HOMOPHOBIC AND TRANSPHOBIC, SO TO SOME EXTENT MIGHT ENURAGE EXTREMISTS TO, FOR EXAMPLE, GO BEAT UP SAME-SEX UPL.”THE RIGHTS OF LGBT+ PEOPLE WILL BE ON THE BALLOT HUNGARY’S UPG ELECTN AND REFERENDUM.“DO YOU AGREE WH THE FOLLOWG STATEMENT: GENR RE-ASSIGNMENT SURGERI SHOULD BE PROMOTED AMONG CHILDREN GOG TO KRGARTEN?” THAT IS ONE OF THE FOUR QUTNS ASKED A REFERENDUM ADD TO THE UPG ELECTORAL BALLOT ON APRIL 3. “THIS IS THE LEVEL OF SANY WE’RE ALG WH,” DEMETER SAYS. “AMNTY’S POSN IS THAT BEE THE ARE VALID QUTNS, THE VOTE IS VALID, AND AT A TERRIBLE EXPENSE OF THE LGBT MUNY.”IT WILL NOT BE EASY TO PULL BACK THE CHANG MA BY THE CURRENT ERNMENT, EVEN IF ORBáN LOS THE ELECTN. “WE NOW HAVE A SYSTEM WHICH LACKS MOST OF THE PENNT STUTNS THAT ULD NTROL EXECUTIVE POWER,” DEMETER SAYS. ORBáN STRATEGILLY PLACED FISZ LOYALISTS KEY POSNS WH MAJOR ERNMENTAL STUTNS. THOSE CIVIL SERVANTS WILL KEEP PROTECTG WHAT ORBáN CREATED. “WHICH ALSO MEANS THAT WHATEVER THEY WANT TO DO TO HUMAN RIGHTS, THEY N, BEE THERE IS NO ONE, NO STUTN POWERFUL ENOUGH, TO STOP THEM,” DEMETER SAYS. NATTE DE VISSER
• ROXANE GAY’S COMPLITED “HUNGER”

GAY VS HUNGRY - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?GAY | HUNGRY |AS A NOUN GAYIS NAPE.AS A VERB GAYIS TO CROW.AS AN ADJECTIVE HUNGRY ISAFFECTED BY HUNGER; SIRG OF FOOD; HAVG A PHYSIL NEED FOR FOOD.GAYENGLISHPROPER NOUN(EN PROPER NOUN), ORIGALLY A NICKNAME FOR A CHEERFUL OR LIVELY OM THE WORD GAY, "JOYFUL"; RARE TODAY.. ALSO A SHORTENED FORM OF GABRIEL, GAYLORD AND SIAR NAM, OR TRANSFERRED OM THE SURNAME.* 1992 , UNTO THE SONS , BALLANTE BOOKS 1993, ISBN 0804110336, PAGE 15- - - MY FATHER'S FATHER, GAETANO TALE ( WHOSE NAME I HERED AFTER MY BIRTH 1932, THE ANGLICIZED OM OF "GAY "), WAS AN ATYPILLY FEARLS TRAVELER,* 2004 , BAD DIRT , FOURTH ESTATE, ISBN 0007196911, PAGE 32"MR GAY BRAWLS. WHAT A NAME.""IT DIDN'T E TO MEAN WHAT MEANS NOW. PLENTY WERE NAMED GAY'. EVEN NEVADA. WAS OLD ' GAY PCH HAD A GAS STATN WNEMUC. NOBODY THOUGHT NOTH ABOUT AND HE RAISED A RAILROAD R OF KIDS.- - -ANAGRAMS*HUNGRY

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GAYS HUNGARY FACG CREASED ERNMENT HOSTILY, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS

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THIS EUROPEAN COUNTRY COULD BE THE NEXT ANTI-LGBTQ HELL ZONEGAY ABANDONTHE FAR-RIGHT ERNMENT OF THIS UNTRY HAS BEEN SYSTEMATILLY ERODG GAY RIGHTS FOR SOME TIME, BUT THE LOOMG APRIL 3 ELECTN ULD SEE THEM WOUND BACK EVEN FURTHER.NATTE DE VISSERPUBLISHED MAR. 29, 2022 4:04AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THOMAS LEVSON/THE DAILY BEAST/GETTYAS RSIA’S BLOODY VASN VASTAT NEIGHBORG UKRAE AND REFUGE FLOOD TO HUNGARY, THE GAY MUNY BUDAPT IS FIGHTG THE CREASGLY REPRSIVE POLICI OF S FAR-RIGHT FISZ ERNMENT. PRIME MISTER VIKTOR ORBáN, UNTIL RECENTLY AN AVID SUPPORTER OF VLADIMIR PUT, HAS BEEN CHARGE HUNGARY SCE 2010. LIKE PUT, HE TRODUCED SEVERAL LAWS THAT TENSIFIED THE PRSURE ON THE LGBT+ MUNY AND NSIRS HOMOSEXUALY PATIBLE WH CHRISTIAN VALU. IN THE UPG ELECTNS ON APRIL 3, ORBáN’S FISZ PARTY HAS A GOOD CHANCE OF BEG REELECTED.“ORBáN’S POLICY THE LAST 12 YEARS HAS ALWAYS BEEN TO PICK A TARGET AND THEN START TO SHOOT,” ANNA SZLAVI, -FOUNR OF THE QL WORK, AN ANIZATN AND WEBSE FOR GAY WOMEN HUNGARY, TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. SHE’S STG WH HER AMERIN LIFE-PARTNER AMY SOTO AT THE WHY NOT CAFE, A GAY-IENDLY HAVEN ON THE BANKS OF THE RIVER DANUBE BUDAPT. “IN 2021 THE SO-LLED ‘PEDOPHILE LAW’ WAS TRODUCED, WHICH BASILLY KD OF NFLATED THE LGBT+ [MUNY] WH PEDOPHIL,” SZLAVI SAYS. “ORBáN REPEATEDLY UPHOLDS THIS IA THAT [BEG] LGBT IS AN ABNORMAL THG AND ’S OK TO EQUATE THEM WH PEDOPHIL.” THE NEW LAW, WHICH FORMALIZ THE CENSORSHIP OF RMATN ABOUT LGBT+ PEOPLE, IS THE LATT STEP A SERI OF LEGAL CLAMPDOWNS ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF THE UNTRY’S QUEER MUNY. IT SENTIALLY OUTLAWS ALL NTENT THAT PORTRAYS NON-HETEROSEXUAL RELATNSHIPS FOR PEOPLE UP TO THE AGE OF 18. BEE OF , TNAL PROGRAMS SCHOOLS, SUPPORT WEBS OR RMATNAL CHANNELS ABOUT THE LGBT+ MUNY ARE NOW BANNED. EVEN CHILDREN’S BOOKS WH REFERENC TO GAY UPL ARE FORCIBLY HIDN AWAY BOOKSTOR.CASE POT: THE CHILDREN’S BOOK A FAIRYTALE FOR EVERYONE, PUBLISHED BY THE LBIAN AND BISEXUAL ANIZATN LABRISZ. “THE BOOK NTAS STORI OF DIVERSY, NOT JT LGBT+ STORI. IT’S ALSO ABOUT HOMELSNS AND ABOUT ETHNIC ISSU,” SZLAVI SAYS. IT TAK A HIGHLY MOTIVATED BUYER TO TRACK DOWN THE BOOK UNR THE CURRENT LEGAL NSTRATS. IN A BRANCH OF THE LIBRI BOOKSTORE CHA LOTED A SHOPPG MALL JT OUTSI THE CENTER OF BUDAPT, FDG A FAIRYTALE FOR EVERYONE FEELS LIKE TAKG A STEP TO ILLEGALY. FIRSTLY, AN EMPLOYEE IS LIKELY TO MISUNRSTAND WHAT YOU ARE LOOKG FOR, SENDG YOU STRAIGHT TO BOOKS ON FAIRYTAL. BUT THAT’S NOT WHERE N BE FOUND. IT’S TUCKED AWAY BEHD STACKS OF OTHER BOOKS, UNTRACEABLE TO ANYONE NOT FAIAR WH THE NER WORKGS OF THE STORE. RSIAN PRINT VLADIMIR PUT SHAK HANDS WH HUNGARY'S PRIME MISTER VIKTOR ORBAN DURG THEIR MEETG AT THE KREML MOSW ON JULY 15, 2018.YURI KADOBNOV/AFP VIA GETTY IMAG THE SO-LLED PEDOPHILE LAW IS JT THE LATT ADMISTRATIVE STEP SIGNALG A MUCH WIR POLICY TO ENSNARE AND MARGALIZE MORI THE UNTRY, SAYS AMNTY INTERNATNAL’S HUNGARY DIRECTOR ARON DEMETER. HUNGARY HAS ALL SORTS OF POLICI PLACE TO PROTECT CERTA GROUPS AND IS DISENANCHISG OTHERS. ORBáN, SAYS DEMETER, “IS PROTECTG CHILDREN AND FAI AND THE ‘OLD TRADNAL EUROPE’ AS OUR PRIME MISTER LIK TO LL , WHICH IS BASILLY A VERY TRADNAL, VERY WHE, HUNGARIAN MUNY.” IT AFFECTS REFUGE, ASYLUM SEEKERS AND IMMIGRANTS, AS WELL AS MEMBERS OF THE LGBT+ MUNY. FOR THEM, MEANS THAT THE “SAME RIGHTS LIKE EQUAL MARRIAGE, ADOPTN AND BASILLY ANY KD OF APPEARANCE PUBLIC LIFE,” ARE NOW OUT OF THE QUTN, DEMETER SAYS. “THIS IS THE LEVEL OF SANY WE’RE ALG WH.” SUPPORTERS OF THE FISZ ERNMENT APPEAR TO HAVE NO PROBLEM WH THE NEW LEGISLATN. THERE IS A SUBSTANTIAL PART OF THE HUNGARIAN POPULATN THAT FEELS THE CLAMPDOWN ON THE GAY MUNY IS FOR THE BT. REGISTERED CY GUI FERI THKS THE NEW LAWS ARE A GOOD THG. IT PROTECTS CHILDREN OM THE PROPAGANDA BY MEMBERS OF THE LGBT+ MUNY, HE BELIEV. “IT’S ONLY A LE AGAST THE PROPAGANDA OM THE LGBTQ; TO PREVENT THEM OM SPREADG THEIR PEDOPHILE PROPAGANDA DAYRE CENTERS AND PRIMARY SCHOOLS. I'VE SEEN FILMS ABOUT ,” FERI ASSUR, “IT’S REALLY HAPPENG.” FERI ARGU THE LAW IS THERE TO PROTECT THE KIDS. “AFTER THEY TURN 18, THEY N CHOOSE TO BE GAY.” TO HIM, THERE IS NO POT ARGUG THE LACK OF CHOICE THE MATTER, BEE ACRDG TO HUNGARY’S LEADG PARTY, HOMOSEXUALY DO NOT EXIST, AND IS THEREFORE A MATTER OF PERSONAL CHOICE.BUDAPT WAS BUILT ALONG TWO SIS OF THE DANUBE RIVER AND A NUMBER OF BRIDG HAVE UNED THE WTERN BANK OF BUDA WH THE EASTERN SI OF PT SCE 1873. ITS CENTER IS FILLED WH MONUMENTAL CY BLOCKS AND HUGE NEOCLASSIL ERNMENT BUILDGS. THEY WERE BUILT TO IMPRS, AND MAYBE TO TIMIDATE A LTLE AS WELL. GREY AND TOWERG, THEY LOOK LIKE FORTIFITNS. THE HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENT BUILDGS SEEM ANCIENT, BUT WERE FACT BUILT THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY. MOST BUILDGS BUDAPT ARE NO OLR. THEY ARE A TTAMENT TO THE BLOODY PAST OF HUNGARY, A UNTRY THAT HAS BEEN VAD AND STROYED MANY TIM.IT’S WHY THE STATU OF FORMER VARS ARE STILL NEATLY STACKED BUDAPT’S CELLARS, CY GUI FERI TELLS S VISORS. GIANT BRONZE STATU OF STAL AND LEN ARE ALL KEPT ONE PLACE. “AFTER ALL,” FERI SAYS, “YOU NEVER KNOW. THE RSIANS MAY BE BACK. HUNGARIANS ARE ALWAYS PREPARED FOR ANYTHG. AND NOW THE RSIANS HAVE VAD THEIR NEIGHBORS.” BUT WHAT FERI FEARS JT AS MUCH IS THE ALLEGED THREAT OM WH—WHAT HE LLS, “THE MOGRAPHIC PROBLEM.” FOR UKRAIAN REFUGE WH A SIAR RELIG AND ETHNIC BACKGROUND, HUNGARY’S DOORS ARE OFTEN SWUNG WI OPEN, BUT FOR THE ‘OTHER KD’ OF REFUGE, THEY REMA FIRMLY SHUT. “WE ARE DOG VERY WELL THE LAST 12 YEARS SCE ORBáN HAS BEEN POWER,” FERI SAYS. “HE HAS BUILT A FENCE TO KEEP THE IMMIGRANTS OUT, AND WE ARE PAYG FOR THAT OURSELV.” DEMONSTRATORS MARCH ON LIBERTY BRIDGE DURG THE ANNUAL PRI PARA BUDAPT, HUNGARY, ON SATURDAY, JULY 24, 2021.AKOS STILLER/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAG THE FENCE IS NOT THE ONLY WAY ORBáN IS TRYG TO SAFEGUARD HIS IA OF WHAT HE THKS THE HUNGARIAN POPULATN SHOULD LOOK LIKE. FERI HAS THREE KIDS, AND THAT’S NO CINCE. “PEOPLE WH THREE KIDS GET A LOT OF MONEY OM THE ERNMENT,” FERI EXPLAS. “WH EVERY KID YOU GET EXTRA MONEY.” LIFE WHOUT THIS ERNMENT GRANT IS DIFFICULT, THE GUI SAYS. “BUT WH THE MONEY FOR CHILDREN YOU ARE WELL OFF. IT’S ORBáN’S WAY TO MAKE SURE HUNGARY STAYS HUNGARIAN.” FG A SOCIETY BASED ON CERTA CHARACTERISTICS AND ETHNICI AND EXCLUDG OTHERS, IS OFTEN REFERRED TO AS “THE SOLUTN TO THE MOGRAPHIC PROBLEM.” IT’S A DOG WHISTLE FOR A FAR-RIGHT AGENDA WH IALS FOR A SOCIETY WHICH PEOPLE LIKE SZLAVI AND SOTO HAVE NO PLACE.SZLAVI AND SOTO SAY THEY DON’T WANT CHILDREN. BUT IF THEY DID, A NORMAL FAY LIFE WOULD BE OUT OF THE QUTN, BEE HUNGARY HAS OUTLAWED -VRO FERTILIZATN FOR LBIAN AND GAY UPL, AND SGLE PARENTS N’T ADOPT HERE. IT FORC GAY UPL TO MAKE DIFFICULT CISNS; NOT TO HAVE CHILDREN AT ALL, OR TAKG THE RISK OF HAVG A CHILD ILLEGALLY, WH A WILLG SPERM DONOR. “I GUS BACK THE STAT YOU WOULD LL THE ‘TURKEY BASTER METHOD,’ BASILLY IVF, BUT AT HOME,” SOTO SAYS. HOWEVER, THE NON-BLOGIL PARENT HUNGARY HAS NO RIGHTS TO THE CHILD.IN 2020, HUNGARY PASSED A NEW LAW AGAST TRANS PEOPLE, WHICH SOLELY TERM SEX BASED ON CHROMOSOM AND PREVENTS PEOPLE OM CHANGG THEIR BIRTH NAME. “I HAVE A LOT OF TRANS IENDS.” SOTO SAYS. “MANY HAVE LEFT THE UNTRY SCE THE NEW LAWS. THEY WERE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO HAVE JOBS AND TN WHERE THEY ULD GET JOBS ABROAD. OTHERS ARE SAVG MONEY. AS FAR AS I HEAR OM THE TRANS MUNY, THEY DON’T SEE ANY FUTURE HERE. FOR THE LBIAN MUNY, WELL, IF YOU WANT ANY KD OF FAY, YOU ARE GONNA HAVE TO DO SOMETHG ILLEGAL TO MAKE HAPPEN.”LIKE HUNGARY, A RERD NUMBER OF ANTI-LGBT+ LEGISLATN HAS SWEPT DIFFERENT U.S. STAT RECENT YEARS. MOST RECENTLY, FLORIDA ADOPTED A LAW UNNNILY SIAR TO HUNGARY’S SO-LLED ‘PEDOPHILE LAW.’ DEFENDG THE LAW, NICKNAMED THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW, GOVERNOR RON DANTIS ECHOED THE SAME ARGUMENTS FISZ OFTEN , SAYG: “FOR GRAS PRE-K THROUGH [GRA] THREE. AND WE’RE GONNA MAKE SURE THAT PARENTS ARE ABLE TO SEND THEIR KIDS TO KRGARTEN, WHOUT HAVG SOME OF THIS STUFF JECTED TO THEIR SCHOOL CURRICULUM.” MEANWHILE TEXAS, GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT EQUAT GENR AFFIRMG SUPPORT FOR TRANS TEENS WH CHILD ABE. SCE THE NEW LAWS WERE PASSED HUNGARY, HATE CINTS AND CRIM HAVE BEEN ON THE RISE. “ONE OF OUR CLOSE PARTNER ANIZATNS, HATTER, HAS A HOTLE FOR HATE CINT VICTIMS AND THEY REPORT AN CREASED LEVEL OF G LLS,” DEMETER SAYS. “OUR WORKG THEORY IS THAT THE LAW MA ‘OK’ TO BE VLENTLY HOMOPHOBIC AND TRANSPHOBIC, SO TO SOME EXTENT MIGHT ENURAGE EXTREMISTS TO, FOR EXAMPLE, GO BEAT UP SAME-SEX UPL.”THE RIGHTS OF LGBT+ PEOPLE WILL BE ON THE BALLOT HUNGARY’S UPG ELECTN AND REFERENDUM.“DO YOU AGREE WH THE FOLLOWG STATEMENT: GENR RE-ASSIGNMENT SURGERI SHOULD BE PROMOTED AMONG CHILDREN GOG TO KRGARTEN?” THAT IS ONE OF THE FOUR QUTNS ASKED A REFERENDUM ADD TO THE UPG ELECTORAL BALLOT ON APRIL 3. “THIS IS THE LEVEL OF SANY WE’RE ALG WH,” DEMETER SAYS. “AMNTY’S POSN IS THAT BEE THE ARE VALID QUTNS, THE VOTE IS VALID, AND AT A TERRIBLE EXPENSE OF THE LGBT MUNY.”IT WILL NOT BE EASY TO PULL BACK THE CHANG MA BY THE CURRENT ERNMENT, EVEN IF ORBáN LOS THE ELECTN. “WE NOW HAVE A SYSTEM WHICH LACKS MOST OF THE PENNT STUTNS THAT ULD NTROL EXECUTIVE POWER,” DEMETER SAYS. ORBáN STRATEGILLY PLACED FISZ LOYALISTS KEY POSNS WH MAJOR ERNMENTAL STUTNS. THOSE CIVIL SERVANTS WILL KEEP PROTECTG WHAT ORBáN CREATED. “WHICH ALSO MEANS THAT WHATEVER THEY WANT TO DO TO HUMAN RIGHTS, THEY N, BEE THERE IS NO ONE, NO STUTN POWERFUL ENOUGH, TO STOP THEM,” DEMETER SAYS. NATTE DE VISSER

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