LGBT Rights Hungary: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more.
Contents:
- 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
- WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS
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. 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.
HOW HATRED OF GAY PEOPLE BEME A KEY PLANK HUNGARY’S THORARIAN TURN
“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.
WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
“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.