Eastern Europe was once a world lear on gay rights. Then ran out of spegoats | CNN

Contents:

• EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS
• 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

EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS

Thoands of Hungarians have braved srchg heat for the annual Pri march Budapt, prottg agast ernment ntrols over public displays by the LGBT pots:Hungary's ernment banned the "display and promotn of homosexualy" among those unr 18A spokperson for the pri march said the number of people attendg doubled sce the banThe US ambassador and many other diplomats participated the marchPrime Mister Viktor Orban's ernment promot a Christian-nservative agenda and 2021 banned the "display and promotn of homosexualy" among those unr 18 spe strong cricism om rights groups and the European Unn.

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BUDAPEST, July 15 (Rters) - 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.

GAY US AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY MARCH BUDAPT PRI MARCH

REUTERS/Bernatt SzaboNeher 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 Friday, the embassi of the Uned Stat, Germany and 36 other untri urged Hungary to protect LGBT rights and scrap discrimatory laws. 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. 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.

THOANDS FY ORBáN WH FTIVE PRI PARA BACKG GAY RIGHTS HUNGARY

Image source, AFPLGBT people and their supporters have marched through the pal cy of Hungary to fend their as the ernment tri to lim discsn of homosexualy and transgenr issu schools. 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). 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. Acrdg to Pohter’s rearch, 47% of people Poland and 49% of people Hungary say homosexualy should be accepted.

BUDAPT PRI MARCH IS A PROTT AGAST ANTI-GAY LAWS, SAY ANISERS

“When you look at the former Eastern bloc, the untri had a long tradn of really progrsive legislatn towards LGBTQ rights, Poland for stance crimalized homosexualy 1932, which is really, really early, ” Kościańska said. Duds said Hungary, too, was once ahead of Wtern Europe, crimalizg homosexualy 1961, although the muny remaed largely visible.

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. 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.