Tips for Gay and Lbian Travelers Hungary | Frommer's

Contents:

• HUNGARY AMENDS NSTUTN TO REFE FAY, LIMS GAY ADOPTN
• HUNGARY AMENDS NSTUTN TO REFE FAY, EFFECTIVELY BANNG GAY ADOPTN
• HOW HATRED OF GAY PEOPLE BEME A KEY PLANK HUNGARY’S THORARIAN TURN
• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS HUNGARY
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN

HUNGARY AMENDS NSTUTN TO REFE FAY, LIMS GAY ADOPTN

REUTERS/Kriszta Fenyo/File PhotoThe natnalist Fisz party of Prime Mister Viktor Orban has worked to rest Hungary a more nservative mold sce wng a third succsive landsli 2018, and anti-gay verbal attacks and legislatn have bee recent years Orban, facg a unified opposn for the first time, has doubled down on propagatg his creasgly nservative iology, ployg strong language agast immigrants and Mlims who he says uld upend European new Hungarian nstutn f fay as “based on marriage and the parent-child relatn. Hungary has never allowed gay marriage but still regnis civil unns.

HUNGARY AMENDS NSTUTN TO REFE FAY, EFFECTIVELY BANNG GAY ADOPTN

Adoptn by gay and lbian upl was possible until now if one partner applied as a sgle person. Although there are exceptns when sgle people or fay members n adopt children, “the ma le is that only married upl n adopt a child, that is, a man and a woman who are married, ” Jtice Mister Jud Varga legislatn passed on Tuday follow the passg of a new law earlier this year banng genr change personal documents and iologil battl over children’s books showg diversy Poland’s lg natnalist PiS party also ma homophobia a key plank of s mpaign an electn this year, endorsg “LGBT-ee zon” spe European Unn per the new law, sgle people Hungary mt get their adoptn requts approved by the fay affairs mister, a post held by ultra-nservative Katal Novak, who promot the tradnal fay mol.

“We are eply ncerned for the health and safety of trans children and adults Hungary such a hostile climate, ” Davis Hugendubel, advocy director at ternatnal gay rights group ILGA, said the chang meant “LGBTI children will be forced to grow up an environment which rtricts them om beg able to exprs their inti. "The natnalist Fisz party of Prime Mister Viktor Orban has worked to rest Hungary a more nservative mold sce wng a third succsive landsli 2018, and anti-gay verbal attacks and legislatn have bee recent years Orban, facg a unified opposn for the first time, has doubled down on propagatg his creasgly nservative iology, ployg strong language agast immigrants and Mlims who he says uld upend European Hanol and Marton Pal play wh their four year old adopted son Andras at a playground Budapt on Nov. Hungary has never allowed gay marriage but still regniz civil unns.

Although there are exceptns when sgle people or fay members n adopt children, "the ma le is that only married upl n adopt a child, that is, a man and a woman who are married, " Jtice Mister Jud Varga legislatn passed on Tuday follow the passg of a new law earlier this year banng genr change personal documents and iologil battl over children's books showg diversy Poland’s lg natnalist PiS party also ma homophobia a key plank of s mpaign an electn this year, endorsg "LGBT-ee zon" spe European Unn per the new law, sgle people Hungary mt get their adoptn requts approved by the fay affairs mister, a post held by ultra-nservative Katal Novak, who promot the tradnal fay mol.

HOW HATRED OF GAY PEOPLE BEME A KEY PLANK HUNGARY’S THORARIAN TURN

"We are eply ncerned for the health and safety of trans children and adults Hungary such a hostile climate, " Davis Hugendubel, advocy director at ternatnal gay rights group ILGA, said the chang meant "LGBTI children will be forced to grow up an environment which rtricts them om beg able to exprs their inti. An article the Hungarian Conservative, a magaze supportive of the Orbán regime, ni that Friends specifilly would be blocked by the new l — but touts the bill’s efforts to “protect children’s natural and healthy sexual velopment” om the allegedly nefar fluence of gay propaganda. “In a moral sense, there is no difference between pedophil and those who mand [gay adoptn], ” László Kövér, the speaker of Hungary’s parliament, said 2019.

Comg off Hungary’s poor handlg of Covid-19 and a sndal surroundg a leadg Fisz figure’s vis to a gay sex party, a play to rev up Fisz’s socially nservative base by prentg them wh yet another enemy to hate is unsurprisg. 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 rights.The 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 party.The 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 neighbour.The Hungarian legislatn outlaws sharg rmatn wh unr-18s that the ernment nsirs to be promotg homosexualy or genr change.“There are ntents which children unr a certa age n misunrstand and which may have a trimental effect on their velopment at the given age, or which children simply nnot procs, and which uld therefore nfe their velopg moral valu or their image of themselv or the world,” said a Hungarian ernment spokperson.The law also means only dividuals and anisatns listed an official register n rry out sex tn class schools, a measure targetg “anisatns wh dub profsnal background … often tablished for the reprentatn of specific sexual orientatns”, the ernment spokperson said.Compani and large anisatns will also be banned om nng adverts solidary wh gay people, if they are emed to target unr-18s. 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 products.The 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.Amnty Internatnal’s Hungarian chapter, which has spearhead protts agast the plans, scribed the passg of the law as a “dark day for LGBTI rights and for Hungary”.“Like the famo Rsian ‘propaganda law’, this new legislatn will further stigmatise LGBTI people and their alli,” said Amnty Internatnal’s director Hungary, Dávid Vig, mentg on a seri of amendments that were add last week to a law targetg child abe.“Taggg the amendments to a bill that seeks to crack down on child abe appears to be a liberate attempt by the Hungarian ernment to nflate paedophilia wh LGBTI people.”András Lérer, at the Hungarian Helski Commtee Europe, said: “This is a blanket approval to treat LGBT people wh discrimatn, wh hatred.

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.”Anna Donáth, a member of the Hungarian opposn, who ss the liberal group the European parliament, lled on EU thori to take immediate actn, whout specifyg what she had md.“The law is patible wh the fundamental valu of European mocratic societi as well as the valu of the Hungarian cizens and is only the latt of many shameful attacks on LGBTIQ rights by Viktor Orbán’s ernment,” she said.“We need more European exampl and more acceptance stead of Rsian exampl of propaganda laws.”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 Hungary.The 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 swch.While Viktor Orbán’s ernment has targeted migrants s polil msagg, gay rights have e unr creasg prsure ahead of parliamentary electns 2022.Earlier this year, the Hungarian ernment orred a small publisher to prt disclaimers a children’s book of fairytal ntag “behavur nsistent wh tradnal genr rol”. (Budapt) – A Hungarian ernment proposal to amend the nstutn to rtrict adoptn to married upl is signed to exclu lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people and fai and is an afont to mon European valu, Human Rights Watch said today. It sparked a wave of homophobic attacks, wh right-wg extremist policians publicly shreddg the book.

TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS HUNGARY

Days after the ernment submted the bills to parliament, the European Commissn troduced a new LGBTIQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, tersex, and queer) strategy.

” The creasgly homophobic polici of populist nservative ernments Hungary and Poland are at odds wh the Commissn’s proposed LGBTIQ strategy and the prcipl of tolerance and nondiscrimatn is signed to protect, Human Rights Watch said.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

“The discrimatory, homophobic and transphobic new laws – shed through unr the ver of the ronavis panmic – are jt the latt attack on LGBTQ people by Hungarian thori, ” Vig add. Earlier this year, Hungary lost pots a rankg of European untri for LGBTI rights by the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) bee of “polici targetg LGBTI muni. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTLegislatn creasg sentenc for pedophil was changed to clu rtrictns on portrayals of homosexualy and transgenr people that young people might Benyei/Agence France-Prse — Getty ImagBUDAPEST — Hungary’s Parliament voted on Tuday to adopt legislatn that would crease sentenc for sex crim agast children, but crics say the law is beg ed to target the untry’s L.

Muny ahead of cnch electns for Prime Mister Viktor Orban next chang to the bill, which was prompted by public outrage after a seri of sex sndals volvg erng party and ernment officials, clud rtrictns agast showg or “popularizg” homosexualy and ntent that promot a genr that diverg om the one assigned at Orban’s crics say the chang were ma to target the untry’s L. Orban and his party pots wh nservative ral voters, many of whom, spurred on by a steady stream of ernment propaganda, see the ernment as a bulwark agast the smopolan liberalism symbolized by opposn polil figur the year, the Fisz-ntrolled Parliament enacted legislatn that effectively bars gay upl om adoptg children Hungary through a narrow fn of the fay as havg to clu a man as the father and a woman as the by a bungled rponse to the ronavis panmic, a foreign policy pivot toward Cha and Rsia that has angered his partners wh the European Unn, and creasg ternatnal isolatn, Mr.

”It is not unmon for someone who has spent their whole life ral Hungary to have never met an openly gay person, Mr. Ruff said, addg that by undatg ral voters wh nspiraci about gay propaganda takg over the world, Mr.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

“The theme of the mpaign will be liberal homosexual Budapt vers the normal people, ” he not supportg the new law, the opposn would be brand supporters of pedophilia for the duratn of the mpaign, Mr.

However, the attempt threatened to backfire after rights mpaigners cricised the ernment’s cisn to host the event, cg the WCF’s attu towards gay Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has fed the group – an umbrella anisatn based Rockford, Illois – as a “hate group” bee of s role Rsia’s 2013 anti-gay propaganda law, which ma a crime to “promote” gay liftyl and which mpaigners say hered a new wave of discrimatn agast LGBT group also oppos abortn rights and gay marriage and promot the ncept of the “natural fay”, which crics sist is language for fierecly homophobic founr, Allan Carlson, who also spoke on the summ’s openg day, has prevly lled heterosexual, procreative marriage “the bulwark of orred liberty” Lenz, senr reporter wh the SPLC’s telligence project, acced the group of peddlg “junk science”. “We fed as a hate group not bee disagre wh LBGT people on relig grounds or oppos gay marriage but bee seeks to monise a class of people for somethg they nnot change, ” he said.

Yakun’s wife, Natalia Yakuna – who chairs Rsia’s “Sancty of Motherhood” group – is attendg, as is Dimry Smirnov, a powerful Orthodox clergyman, who has referred to gays as “homosexualists” and lled their activi “sful”. It hailed the rewrten 2013 nstutn – drafted by Orban’s ernment – which f marriage as between a man and woman, th precludg gay marriage, and for assertg that the unborn foet has rights, although abortn is legal rejected suggtns that the ernment was associatg self wh anti-gay polici by hostg the summ. ”Challenged repeatedly regardg homophobic views such as those exprsed by Smirnoff, he said: “Isn’t the se wh mocracy that even on the wist spectm, you have to accept opn and if you work for somethg, you look for those issu on which you n work together?

I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN

The rolutn voked the alleged nial of rights to mory muni, cludg gay rponse, Kovacs said: “There is no discrimatn agast LGBT people here this untry.

A new law Hungary banng the "promotn" of homosexualy among mors has sparked wispread outcry - domatg Euro 2020 wh a rabow row and overshadowg today's EU summ on Bssels. But s fal draft ntas amendments that crics say nflate paedophilia wh homosexualy.