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- GAY US AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY MARCH BUDAPT PRI MARCH
- THOANDS FY ORBáN WH FTIVE PRI PARA BACKG GAY RIGHTS HUNGARY
- BUDAPT PRI MARCH IS A PROTT AGAST ANTI-GAY LAWS, SAY ANISERS
GAY US AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY MARCH BUDAPT PRI MARCH
Photograph: Attila Kisbenek/AFP Thoands of Hungarians braved srchg heat for the annual Pri march Budapt on Saturday, prottg agast ernment ntrols over public displays by the LGBT mister Viktor Orban’s ernment promot a Christian-nservative agenda and 2021 banned “display and promotn of homosexualy” books and films accsible by unr-18s spe strong cricism om rights groups and the European Unn. "But unfortunately I have to say that beg proud of beg gay is not as accepted Hungary as the Wt.
Neher anisers nor the ernment gave a number for the marchers, though wns timated about 10, ads for the Pri para were only allowed to be aired late at night, wh most channels not takg the risk at all, Hungarian news se this week, Hungary's send-largt bookseller received a rerd fe for sellg a book that picts homosexualy whout closed wrappg. 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.
THOANDS FY ORBáN WH FTIVE PRI PARA BACKG GAY RIGHTS HUNGARY
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. 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. 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.
But this year, Pri is also a prott, as LGBTQ people and their alli rally agast the untry’s creasgly hostile policy towards their muni – punctuated by a new, homophobic law recently passed by Hungary’s hardle ernment. The new law, supported by Prime Mister Viktor Orbán, bans all tnal materials and programs for children that are nsired to promote homosexualy and genr reassignment. A 2020 report om the Bratislava-based global thk-tank Globsec found that the majory of Hungarians disagree wh the monizatn of the LGBTQ muny, wh 55% disagreeg wh the statement that LGBTQ rights reprent a nt iology, spe the anti-gay rhetoric whipped up by the current ernment.
BUDAPT PRI MARCH IS A PROTT AGAST ANTI-GAY LAWS, SAY ANISERS
Yet some believe that years of state-sponsored homophobia is fally takg s toll. In November, Hubert Hlatky-Schlichter and his father, who is gay, lnched a mpaign to raise awarens about rabow fai – fed as a fay wh one parent who intifi as lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, tersex or queer. Thoands of Hungarians marched Budapt’s biggt Pri para on Saturday, amid tensn sparked by a seri of anti-gay steps by Prime Mister Viktor Orban.
After an “anti-paedophilia” law was adopted by parliament last month, Orban’s crics at home and Bssels have acced him of nflatg paedophilia wh homosexualy. “Many people are dismayed at the new law and the anti-gay propaganda, ” Johanna Majercsik, a spokperson for the Budapt Pri aniser, told the AFP news agency. Although Orban portrays the bill as protectg children, LGBTQ lears say stigmatis gay people and aims to shore up the prime mister’s right-wg support ahead of an electn next year.
A group of about 200 unter-monstrators along the route held banners readg “Stop LGBTQ paedophilia” and shouted homophobic sults over l of police who separated them om the marchers.