Contents:
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
- EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
- HUNGARY PASS LAWS CURTAILG GAY RIGHTS AND EXPANDG EXECUTIVE POWER
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
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The 28th annual event as the untry’s laws, which ban the pictn of homosexualy or genr transn, to mors unr 18 have begun to be applied wh creasg regulary, rultg f and other penalti for those who dissemate LGBTQ+ ntent. David Vig, director at Amnty Internatnal Hungary, said that ntrast to some untri Wtern Europe and North Ameri where Pri events are celebratns of LGBTQ+ history and culture, Budapt Pri is a way of prottg creasg crackdowns on the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people.
GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
“Due to the limed nature of the format, we chose to highlight the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ expansn bee the worst of the anti-trans bills are currently beg challenged the urts, ” the party spokperson wrote. 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.
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. Hungary’s parliament has passed a law banng gay people om featurg school tnal materials or TV shows for unr-18s, as Viktor Orbán’s lg party tensified s mpaign agast LGBT natnal assembly passed the legislatn by 157 vot to one, after MPs the lg Fisz party ignored a last-mute plea by one of Europe’s leadg human rights officials to abandon the plan as “an afont agast the rights and inti of LGBTI persons”.
Dpe a boytt of the vote by some opposn policians, the oute was never doubt, as Fisz has a healthy majory and the plans were supported by the far-right Jobbik measur have been likened by crics to Rsia’s 2013 law agast “gay propaganda” that pennt monors say has creased social hostily and fuelled vigilante attacks agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people the EU untry’s eastern Hungarian legislatn outlaws sharg rmatn wh unr-18s that the ernment nsirs to be promotg homosexualy or genr change. Compani and large anisatns will also be banned om nng adverts solidary wh gay people, if they are emed to target unr-18s.
EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS
In 2019, a Co-Cola ad mpaign featurg sg gay upl and anti-discrimatn slogans prompted some proment Fisz members to ll for a boytt of the pany’s law means that TV shows and films featurg gay characters, or even a rabow flag, would be permted only after the watershed, say mpaigners who have studied the legislatn.
The ia that beg gay pos a risk self to people unr 18 is such a horrible vic ncept … It will have tragic effects on the mental wellbeg of young LGBT people.
”Misters om the EU’s 26 other untri have been urged to raise the law wh their Hungarian unterpart at a meetg Luxembourg next week, which is due to turn the spotlight on the le of law latt measur follow the cisn to effectively ban adoptn by gay upl and end legal regnn for genr chang, cludg people who have already ma the Viktor Orbán’s ernment has targeted migrants s polil msagg, gay rights have e unr creasg prsure ahead of parliamentary electns 2022. BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The embassi of 38 untri and more than 10 other cultural stutns urged Hungary's ernment on Friday to retract laws seen as limg the rights of the LGBTQ+ 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.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
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”In July 2019, two gay men om St. Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down.
HUNGARY PASS LAWS CURTAILG GAY RIGHTS AND EXPANDG EXECUTIVE POWER
”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help. One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm. Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.