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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT

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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. ”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.

Hungary’s parliament passed legislatn on Tuday that bans the dissematn of ntent schools emed to promote homosexualy and genr change, amid strong cricism om human rights groups and opposn parti. Unr amendments submted to the bill last week, unr-18s nnot be shown any ntent that enurag genr change or homosexualy. Gay marriage is not regnized Hungary and only heterosexual upl n legally adopt children.

LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

In another blow to lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights Hungary, on July 13, the Hungarian ernment proposed a bill that exclus transgenr women om a women-only pensn scheme. The bill is expected to go to parliament September. * hungarian gay law *

Orban’s ernment has refed marriage as the unn between one man and one woman the nstutn, and limed gay adoptn.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

A report om Human Rights Watch lls on the ernment of St. Vcent to overturn lonial-era anti-gay laws that have led to a recent wave of vlence and genr discrimatn on the small Caribbean island. * hungarian gay law *

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. The law bans the "promotn of homosexualy" to unr-18s, and says that only ernment-approved stctors are allowed to teach sex tn schools.

Firms nnot n ads showg support for homosexuals if they are seen as targetg mors, acrdg to the law. And broadsters fear they uld be barred om showg movi the daytime if they feature gay characters or even show a rabow flag. Crics say the law is even harsher than Rsia's 2013 ban on gay propaganda.

Mr Orban ni that the law is homophobic, scribg Ms von r Leyen's cricism as "shameful".

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

"This is not a law about homosexualy, but a law about how children are ted matters ncerng sexualy, " he said. In December, parliament approved an effective ban on adoptn by gay upl, while a year ago, a ban on legally changg one's genr me to force. The legislative wave has been acpanied by risg anti-gay sentiment, notably ernment-ntrolled media.

In 2019, a Co-Cola advertisg mpaign featurg sg gay upl and anti-discrimatn slogans prompted some proment members of Fisz to ll for a boytt of the pany's products. Last week, the Hungarian parliament banned any portrayal of homosexualy or transgenrism to mors, tnal material or on televisn. Appendg this to a law protectg children om child abe, the untry’s print, Viktor Orbán, drew an explic nnectn between homosexualy and paedophilia.

In so dog, he rorted to a nard that much of the world has long dispensed wh, but that is enjoyg a troublg new emergence the global battl agast “genr iology”: the danger posed by homosexuals and trans people to children. The law is also a salvo a tough upg electn, and an effective way of stakg what I term a “pk le”: a nativist boundary protectg, this se, Hungarian “valu” agast the immoral imperialism of Gee Soros and this way, the Hungarian law echo what Vladimir Put did 2012 when he ed Rsia’s “anti-gay propaganda” legislatn to unter the growg urban opposn to his bid for a third printial term. Ironilly, the “anti-wt” policians are g the playbook veloped the Uned Stat by Ana Bryant’s 1977 “Save Our Children” mpaign Florida, which sought to expunge all referenc to homosexualy om curriculums, and rulted several laws across the untry.

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