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• EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS
• HOW HATRED OF GAY PEOPLE BEME A KEY PLANK HUNGARY’S THORARIAN TURN

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

Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) rights and the groups who work to protect them are unr h prsure Hungary. The book was the target of homophobic phback, cludg om policians who lled “homosexual propaganda” and om nservativ who sought to have banned om bookstor.

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. Image source, RtersImage ptn, Activists displayed a huge rabow balloon ont of Hungary's parliament to prott agast the lawThe European Parliament has voted favour of urgent legal actn over Hungary's new law banng the pictn of homosexualy to new legislatn breached "EU valu, prcipl and law", MEPs parliament add that the law was "another tentnal and premedated example of the gradual dismantlg of fundamental rights Hungary" Mister Viktor Orban sists school policy is a matter for Hungary, not "Bssels burecrats" a rolutn passed on Thursday wh 459 favour, 147 agast and 58 abstentns, MEPs said the latt velopments Hungary followed a broar pattern of polil parliament urged the European Commissn to e a new tool that allows the EU to rce budget allotns to member stat breach of the le of law, to ensure that the Hungarian ernment reverse the cisn. Crics say Hungary's new law, which me to force on Thursday, equat homosexualy wh paedophilia.

HOW HATRED OF GAY PEOPLE BEME A KEY PLANK HUNGARY’S THORARIAN TURN

The new l troduced by Hungary foc on creasg punishment for nvicted paedophil, but an amendment was passed on 15 June banng the portrayal or promotn of homosexualy among uld affect sex tn and advertisg, and even stop TV favour such as Friends or Harry Potter beg broadst until late at night, there are also fears that vulnerable young people uld be prived of important support. Hungary also do not regnise gay Orban has been wily cricised the EU, acced of curbg the rights of migrants and other mori, policisg the urts and media, and toleratg anti-Semism.

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Still attu of homosexualy as a disease. In another blow to lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights Hungary, on July 13, the Hungarian ernment proposed a bill that exclus transgenr women om a women-only pensn scheme.

The puty Fisz factn lear publicly cricized the judge while pro-ernment media regurgated trans- and homophobic msagg. Instead of discrimatg and fuelg tolerance, parliament should redouble efforts to protect the basic human rights of everyone Hungary, cludg people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr.

REUTERS/Marton Mon/FilBUDAPEST, Dec 14 (Rters) - Hungary's law that bans teachg about homosexualy and transgenr issu schools vlat ternatnal human rights standards, the Venice Commissn, a panel of experts of the human rights body Council of Europe said on legislatn, which passed June and has ed anxiety the LGBTQ+ muny and triggered sharp cricism om the European Unn, bans the e of materials seen as promotg homosexualy and genr change at schools, ostensibly as a measure to prevent child nstutnal law experts of the Venice Commissn nclud that the amendments are not acrdance wh ternatnal human rights standards and fail to ensure that children get accs to objective and non-biased rmatn on genr inty and sexual orientatn.

A new law that bans the dissematn of ntent schools emed to promote homosexualy and genr change went to effect Wednday spe a warng om Europe’s top rights watchdog that the law risks discrimatn agast LGBT people. The new law that to force across Hungary prohibs sharg ntent on homosexualy or sex reassignment to people unr 18 school sex tn programm, films or ernment says ’s meant to protect children but crics of the law say lks homosexualy wh lears have slammed the law, European Commissn Print Ursula von r Leyen llg a “shame” other thgs, the chang to the Hungarian Constutn December 2020 altered the fn of fai to exclu transgenr and other LGBT dividuals, fg the basis of the fay as “marriage and the parent-child relatnship. BUDAPEST (Rters) - The embassi of the Uned Stat, Germany and 36 other untri urged Hungary's ernment to protect the rights of LGBT people and scrap laws that discrimate agast them a statement ahead of Budapt's Pri march on Mister Viktor Orban's ernment promot a strongly Christian-nservative agenda and passed a law 2021 banng the "display and promotn of homosexualy" among unr-18s, spe cricism om rights groups and the European a jot statement, the embassi and about 10 cultural stutns cludg the Brish Council, the Estonian Instute and Instut Français said they supported Saturday's event which is expected to draw thoands to downtown Budapt.