First Rsia, Then Hungary, Now Romania Is Consirg A 'Gay Propaganda' Law 

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• FIRST RSIA, THEN HUNGARY, NOW ROMANIA IS CONSIRG A 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW 
• ROMANIA COULD PASS RSIAN-STYLE ANTI-GAY “PROPAGANDA” LAW

FIRST RSIA, THEN HUNGARY, NOW ROMANIA IS CONSIRG A 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW 

Romania is nsirg a dangero bill to prohib tnal materials that discs homosexualy and genr transn. Romania isn't the only untry portrayg lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people as a threat to children. In the Uned Kgdom, Sectn 28 — a 1988 law that said lol ernments uld not "promote homosexualy" — chilled lol ernment support for LGBT iativ and fueled anti-LGBT harassment until was repealed the early 2000s.

ROMANIA COULD PASS RSIAN-STYLE ANTI-GAY “PROPAGANDA” LAW

While the laws are motivated by homophobia and transphobia, they purport to rt on an unfound belief that discsns of sexual orientatn and genr inty are not age-appropriate for young children. The toxic stereotyp monise LGBT people, fuel homophobia and transphobia, and put LGBT people and their fai at risk of harassment and vlence. "Their weddg ceremony took place jt before more than 15, 000 people gathered the Buchart to fend LGBTQ rights as lawmakers ph for the new law that would ban any discsn of homosexualy or genr inty virtually all public and private spac, cludg schools, workplac, the ter and other mass media.

Hungary, Romania's neighbor to the wt, adopted a siar law June 2021 prohibg the distributn of ntent emed to promote homosexualy and genr change to people unr 18 school sex tn, films or TV mercials. LGBTQ activists have said that both Romania's bill and Hungary's law are moled on anti-gay legislatn enacted by Rsia 2013. Vios show wispread abe of gays Rsia, advot say.

In the ntext of Rsia's attack on Ukrae, she said queer Rsians who have a male genr marker on their passports have also grown creasgly aaid of beg drafted to the army, both bee they don't want to take part the war and bee there's rampant transphobia and homophobia the Rsian army.

Senator Tammy Baldw, a Democrat and the untry's first openly gay senator, met wh lears om MozaiQ and ACCEPT to discs measur to rce discrimatn Romania.

"Regardls of where someone liv the world, they serve the digny to live ee om discrimatn based on who they are and who they love, " she homosexualy has been crimalized Romania sce 2001, same-sex upl are neher allowed to marry nor enter to civil unns, and transgenr people are not able to change the genr on their IDs whout havg to pursue legal actn, as there is no admistrative procre to acplish this. More than 15, 000 people have marched Romania’s pal Buchart for equal rights for genr and sexual mori as the untry’s lower chamber of the parliament is set to vote on a law later this year that bans discsn of homosexualy and genr inty public spac.

BUCHAREST -- Romania is nsirg a bill that would ban mors om beg exposed to so-lled "gay propaganda" schools and public life, spe warngs om rights groups that would "fuel Rsian propaganda and disrmatn mpaigns" and restate censorship the former munist untry.

"If a child is on the street and se a Pri march, or if he or she se a story about gay issu on televisn, or watch a film approved by the Romanian thori that has LGBT issu, " the would all be illegal unr the law, Ion-Rotar said. One article of the proposed law says that a child "has the right to be protected agast the spreadg of ntent through any means about the viatn om sex which is tablished at birth (by a doctor) or the popularizatn of sex change or homosexualy. People march across Freedom Bridge durg a gay pri para Budapt July 2021.