LGBT Rights Hungary: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more.
Contents:
- HOW HATRED OF GAY PEOPLE BEME A KEY PLANK HUNGARY’S THORARIAN TURN
- GAY BUDAPT
- GAY US AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY MARCH BUDAPT PRI MARCH
- EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS HUNGARY
HOW HATRED OF GAY PEOPLE BEME A KEY PLANK HUNGARY’S THORARIAN TURN
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.
A new law that bans the dissematn of ntent schools emed to promote homosexualy and genr change went to effect Wednday spe a warng om Europe’s top rights watchdog that the law risks discrimatn agast LGBT people. The new law that to force across Hungary prohibs sharg ntent on homosexualy or sex reassignment to people unr 18 school sex tn programm, films or ernment says ’s meant to protect children but crics of the law say lks homosexualy wh lears have slammed the law, European Commissn Print Ursula von r Leyen llg a “shame” other thgs, the chang to the Hungarian Constutn December 2020 altered the fn of fai to exclu transgenr and other LGBT dividuals, fg the basis of the fay as “marriage and the parent-child relatnship. Budapt Mayor Gergely Karácsony and openly gay U.
“On the ocsn of the 28th Budapt Pri Ftival, we the unrsigned embassi and cultural stut exprs our full support for members of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and tersex (LGBTQI+) muny Hungary and their rights to equaly and non-discrimatn, eedom of exprsn and peaceful assembly and eedom om vlence, ” reads the statement. The Lira Kiskerkelmi Kft bookstore cha is the latt bookstore to e unr fire om the ernment for breakg a law passed 2021 that forbids the advertisement or distributn of materials that "promote or display homosexualy.
GAY BUDAPT
"The office of the Budapt regnal ernment stated a prs release that “the vtigatn tablished that the books qutn pict homosexualy, yet they were displayed among books for children, classified as youth lerature, and they were not distributed sealed packagg. The “child protectn law”, which was passed by a sweepg 157 vot to one, has garnered fierce cricism om wh Hungary and the European law broadly bans ntent which “promot or portrays a divergence om self-inty rrpondg to sex at birth, sex change or homosexualy” to April, the Hungarian parliament approved a law that would make possible for people to report fai that go agast “nstutnally regnized role of marriage and the fay. 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. 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.
GAY US AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY MARCH BUDAPT PRI MARCH
”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. It rtricts anyone unr the age of 18 om beg shown pornographic ntent, or material that the ernment ems to be promotg homosexualy or transgenr issu. "Luckily Hungary, [children's exposure to homosexualy and transgenr msag] is not a big issue so far, but has already started, so better to stop at the begng.
"It's still very disgtg that the ernment is tryg to kd of stir up the transphobic, homophobic feelgs among the public, " said Evgeny Belyakov, 35, who spoke to CBC at a gay bar Budapt on Saturday eveng, before the vote.
Belyakov, who moved to Budapt om Vladivostok, Rsia, when he was universy, was not eligible to vote Sunday's electn, but enuraged all his Hungarian iends to spoil their ballots, as he saw the referendum as a says on the whole, Budapt is a very acceptg place, and he hop Hungary don't follow Rsia's example when to the perceptn of the gay muny.
EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS HUNGARY
And now 's the gays.
"The Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn lled Sunday's referendum an attempt for the ernment to distract om "s gross failgs and rptn" and stead e the LGTBQ muny as a spegoat. Anti-immigratn referendumIn 2016, Orbán's ernment held a referendum on immigratn quotas durg a refugee crisis which thoands of migrants om untri cludg Syria and Afghanistan tried to make their way to Belyakov, 35, is origally om Rsia and said he hop Hungary don't follow that untry's example when to anti-gay policy and sentiment. Image source, RtersImage ptn, Activists displayed a huge rabow balloon ont of Hungary's parliament to prott agast the lawThe European Parliament has voted favour of urgent legal actn over Hungary's new law banng the pictn of homosexualy to new legislatn breached "EU valu, prcipl and law", MEPs parliament add that the law was "another tentnal and premedated example of the gradual dismantlg of fundamental rights Hungary" Mister Viktor Orban sists school policy is a matter for Hungary, not "Bssels burecrats" a rolutn passed on Thursday wh 459 favour, 147 agast and 58 abstentns, MEPs said the latt velopments Hungary followed a broar pattern of polil parliament urged the European Commissn to e a new tool that allows the EU to rce budget allotns to member stat breach of the le of law, to ensure that the Hungarian ernment reverse the cisn.
Crics say Hungary's new law, which me to force on Thursday, equat homosexualy wh paedophilia. The new l troduced by Hungary foc on creasg punishment for nvicted paedophil, but an amendment was passed on 15 June banng the portrayal or promotn of homosexualy among uld affect sex tn and advertisg, and even stop TV favour such as Friends or Harry Potter beg broadst until late at night, there are also fears that vulnerable young people uld be prived of important support.