European Unn lears on Thursday nonted their peer, Prime Mister Viktor Orban, over Hungary's new anti-LGBT law, strsg their mment to fendg gay rights and pilg prsure on Budapt to step back.
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- EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS
- WHERE PEOPLE ARE AGAST GAY RIGHTS IN THE EU
EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS
Today Europe, people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual or tersex (LGBTI) still suffer om discrimatn around the world. The protectn of LGBTI rights is a high prry the European Unn. * eu gay rights *
Unr EU law, lbian, bisexual and gay people are currently protected om discrimatn on the ground of sexual orientatn only the field of employment.
Hungary’s hardle natnalist ernment passed a new law earlier this month banng ntent that “promot” homosexualy and genr change om beg shared wh children, effectively prohibg any discsn of LGBTQ them schools. In dog so, Orbán has followed the playbook of Poland’s ernment, which has been chippg away at the rights of the LGBTQ muny for a number of years, adoptg discrimatory rhetoric and stokg homophobia.
“There’s a real regrsn happeng many different untri, and rights that had been regnized are now beg challenged, ” said Evelyne Paradis, the executive director of the European branch of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA-Europe).
WHERE PEOPLE ARE AGAST GAY RIGHTS IN THE EU
This chart shows the share disagreeg gay, lbian and bisexual people should have the same rights as heterosexuals. * eu gay rights *
Orbán, like the ernment Poland and some other untri, is tryg to prent homophobic polici as a way of protectg natnal valu. “It’s not about homosexuals, ’s about the kids and the parents, ” he told reporters, addg that he was a “eedom fighter” durg Hungary’s munist era. She add that the ia of natn is often closely associated wh a tradnal fay and genr rol – another way to “other” the gay muny.
“You have plac like Germany, France, Spa where 85% or more say that homosexualy should be accepted by society and then once you’re past the dividg le, on the other si of the former Iron Curta, those numbers beg to fall pretty rapidly and then get even lower as you go to Rsia, ” he said.