Contents:
- 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
- GAY US AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY MARCH BUDAPT PRI MARCH
HOW HATRED OF GAY PEOPLE BEME A KEY PLANK HUNGARY’S THORARIAN TURN
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. An article the Hungarian Conservative, a magaze supportive of the Orbán regime, ni that Friends specifilly would be blocked by the new l — but touts the bill’s efforts to “protect children’s natural and healthy sexual velopment” om the allegedly nefar fluence of gay propaganda.
EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS
“In a moral sense, there is no difference between pedophil and those who mand [gay adoptn], ” László Kövér, the speaker of Hungary’s parliament, said 2019.
Comg off Hungary’s poor handlg of Covid-19 and a sndal surroundg a leadg Fisz figure’s vis to a gay sex party, a play to rev up Fisz’s socially nservative base by prentg them wh yet another enemy to hate is unsurprisg.
GAY US AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY MARCH BUDAPT PRI MARCH
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.