Gay US ambassador to Hungary march Budapt Pri march

Contents:

• EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS
• GAY BUDAPT · CY GUI
• BUDAPT PRI MARCH IS A PROTT AGAST ANTI-GAY LAWS, SAY ANISERS
• HUNGARY PASS LAWS CURTAILG GAY RIGHTS AND EXPANDG EXECUTIVE POWER
• GAY US AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY MARCH BUDAPT PRI MARCH

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

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.

GAY BUDAPT · CY GUI

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. 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. "But unfortunately I have to say that beg proud of beg gay is not as accepted Hungary as the Wt.

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

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. 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.

HUNGARY PASS LAWS CURTAILG GAY RIGHTS AND EXPANDG EXECUTIVE POWER

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.

GAY US AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY MARCH BUDAPT PRI MARCH

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. 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 Lawmakers Pass Law Barrg LGBT Content For Mors Hungarian lawmakers have passed legislatn that prohibs sharg wh mors any ntent that portrays or promot beg gay or trans. Durg the prott human rights activists lled on lawmakers Hungary to eject legislatn banng any ntent portrayg homosexualy or different genr inti to anyone unr 18. BUDAPEST — Lawmakers Hungary passed legislatn Tuday that prohibs sharg wh mors any ntent that portrays beg gay or transgenr, somethg supporters said would help fight pedophilia but which human rights groups nounced as anti-LGBT discrimatn.