Activists nmn vlence agast LGBTQ muny St. Vcent, where gay sex is illegal | AP News

Contents:

• ANTI-GAY HUNGARIAN POLICIAN RIGNS AFTER BSSELS POLICE BT 25-MAN Y FOR VLATG RONAVIS L
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
• MEMBER OF HUNGARY'S ANTI-LGBTQ ERNMENT RIGNS AFTER FLEEG ALLEGED GAY SEX PARTY
• EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS
• GAY US AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY MARCH BUDAPT PRI MARCH
• GAY INTY AND POLICS AMID HOSTILE HUNGARY
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

ANTI-GAY HUNGARIAN POLICIAN RIGNS AFTER BSSELS POLICE BT 25-MAN Y FOR VLATG RONAVIS L

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A top-rankg official Hungary’s ultranservative ernment has stepped down after beg ught fleeg an alleged gay sex party.

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

The married official admted to attendg what he lled a “private party” Bssels on Friday night, spe the Belgian pal beg unr ronavis least 20 naked men — cludg several diplomats — were disvered at a gatherg above a gay bar central Bssels, acrdg to Belgian newspaper La Dernière Hre, which scribed as an “y. ”While some reports have claimed he personally add that amendment, Hungarian gay activist Tamás Dombos said Szájer's role s addn is plited.

MEMBER OF HUNGARY'S ANTI-LGBTQ ERNMENT RIGNS AFTER FLEEG ALLEGED GAY SEX PARTY

“It is te, however, that he did not speak up agast growg homophobia and transphobia recent months and years. In May of this year, for example, the ernment reversed regulatns allowg transgenr and tersex cizens to change the genr listed on legal the most part, Dombos said, opposn parti have foced on Szájer’s hypocrisy — reprentg a tradnal-valu party while floutg lockdown and engagg dgs and public sex — rather than on the gay aspect of the a Facebook post, Hungary’s centrist Momentum Movement party attacked him for thkg the l didn’t apply to him.

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

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.

GAY US AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY MARCH BUDAPT PRI MARCH

“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. “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.

The openly gay lear has bee a well-known figure the LGBTQ movement Poland, even as the lg party has gaed ternatnal headl for s anti-LGBTQ stanc.

GAY INTY AND POLICS AMID HOSTILE HUNGARY

He said he did not know of a sgle gay person his village. But never any gays.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

“We are the most homophobic untry on the map of Europe the EU, ” said Biedroń.

Forty-seven percent said “homosexualy should not be accepted by society, ” when the Pew Rearch Center nducted a poll, between 2015 and 2016.

Dpe all this, Biedroń, cid to enter activism, -foundg the Campaign Agast Homophobia 2001. Bis I knew I’m the ‘only gay the village. In 2011, he beme the first openly gay member the Sejm, the lower Hoe of the Polish Parliament.