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Contents:
- GAY US AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY MARCH BUDAPT PRI MARCH
- ADVOCY GROUPS: ETHPIAN ERNMENT’S ANTI-GAY RHETORIC SPURS ONLE ATTACKS
- EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS
GAY US AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY MARCH BUDAPT PRI MARCH
The jot statement, signed by embassi om untri cludg the Uned Stat, Germany and Ukrae, exprsed “full support for members of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and tersex (LGBTQI+) muny Hungary and their rights to equaly and non-discrimatn.
ADVOCY GROUPS: ETHPIAN ERNMENT’S ANTI-GAY RHETORIC SPURS ONLE ATTACKS
A law passed 2021, ostensibly to protect children om pedophilia, forbids the display of homosexual ntent to mors media, cludg televisn, films, advertisements and lerature. The openly gay lear has bee a well-known figure the LGBTQ movement Poland, even as the lg party has gaed ternatnal headl for s anti-LGBTQ stanc. He said he did not know of a sgle gay person his village.
But never any gays. “We are the most homophobic untry on the map of Europe the EU, ” said Biedroń.
Forty-seven percent said “homosexualy should not be accepted by society, ” when the Pew Rearch Center nducted a poll, between 2015 and 2016. Dpe all this, Biedroń, cid to enter activism, -foundg the Campaign Agast Homophobia 2001. Bis I knew I’m the ‘only gay the village.
EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS
In 2011, he beme the first openly gay member the Sejm, the lower Hoe of the Polish Parliament. In 2014, he beme the first openly gay mayor the untry, takg the top learship role the northwt cy of Słupsk.