European Unn lears on Thursday nonted their peer, Prime Mister Viktor Orban, over Hungary's new anti-LGBT law, strsg their mment to fendg gay rights and pilg prsure on Budapt to step back.
Contents:
- THE LONG JOURNEY OUT OF THE CLOSET FOR LHUANIA’S GAY MUNY
- EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS
- EUROPEAN RIGHTS COURT RUL AGAST RSIAN GAY 'PROPAGANDA' LAW
- RSIA: EUROPEAN COURT RUL GAY PRI BAN UNLAWFUL
- WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
- WHEN DO VOTERS SUPPORT THE EUROPEAN UNN’S INVOLVEMENT GAY RIGHTS?
THE LONG JOURNEY OUT OF THE CLOSET FOR LHUANIA’S GAY MUNY
EU actns batg discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people EU untri. * gay rights european union *
Neverthels, discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) people persists throughout the EU and tak var forms, cludg verbal abe and physil vlence.
EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS
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The European Commissn, the Parliament and the Council, together wh Member Stat, all share a rponsibily to protect fundamental rights and ensure equal treatment and equaly for recent s, legislative velopments, se law and policy iativ have improved many people’s liv and helped buildg more equal and welg societi, cludg for lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, non-bary, tersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people. ”More rmatnAt 4am on that day Augt, a group of hood figur, who are yet to be intified, hurled Molotov cktails agast the small office belongg to the Lhuanian Gay League (LGL), which is the first anizatn Lhuania to fight for LGBT+ rights. Fifteen mut later, another Molotov cktail was left outsi the hoe of the uple, who work to brg visibily to the gay muny one of the most rtrictive untri the European Unn when to homosexualy.
Only 24% of Lhuanians support same-sex marriage pared to the European average of 64%, acrdg to a 2016 survey by the European people put attacks such as that agast the LGL down to pure homophobia, while others argue that is more to do wh the fact that until recently, the untry was unr the ntrol of the Soviet Unn. “Dpe the magnificent progrs recent years, the LGBT muny is still facg habual discrimatn, ” explas Daniele Vtti, a member of the European Parliament who is on the civil liberti missn, via USSR nsired homosexualy an unsirable nce of the bourgeoisie. Daniele Vtti, MEP on the civil liberti missnWhen to discrimatn, the Baltic Republic 37th out of 49 European untri the rankg of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA), wh fay valu beg the ma obstacle to the advancement of LGBT+ the untry, which has almost three ln habants, lived unr the Soviet Unn, everyone need to be equal, says Vtti.
EUROPEAN RIGHTS COURT RUL AGAST RSIAN GAY 'PROPAGANDA' LAW
The northern Italian cy of Padua has started removg the nam of non-blogil gay mothers om their children’s birth certifit unr new legislatn passed by the “tradnal fay-first” ernment of Prime Mister Grgia Meloni. * gay rights european union *
Raskevici reprents the new generatn of gays Lhuania who want to “e out of the closet” whout fear of their parent’s opns – one of the biggt problems for a generatn that grew up unr munism, where homosexualy was prohibed. Raskevici, who is wearg a long quilted at and a floral shirt, and is a shaved head and blue ntact lens, was Vilni’s first openly gay polician whose electoral mpaign not only drew upon his personal history, but also on the fense of LGBT+ rights.
RSIA: EUROPEAN COURT RUL GAY PRI BAN UNLAWFUL
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has led that Rsia’s law banng the dissematn of gay "propaganda" to mors vlat the right to eedom of exprsn, is discrimatory agast gay people, and enurag homophobia. * gay rights european union *
However, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) people n face discrimatn many areas of life, for stance when lookg for a job or askg for social secury benefs, at school or when they need healthre. Civil society anisatns help promote posive change and this is why the European Commissn supports European LGBTI anisatns such as ILGA-Europe, part of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, Transgenr Europe and IGLYO.
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.
WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
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.
WHEN DO VOTERS SUPPORT THE EUROPEAN UNN’S INVOLVEMENT GAY RIGHTS?
“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). “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. “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.