Protesters in Budapest Denounce Law to Curb LGBTQ Rights in Hungary

LGBTQ+ activists and others demonstrated in front of the Hungarian parliament on Monday, as they urged lawmakers to abandon draft laws banning content portraying or promoting homosexuality or sex reassignment to anyone under 18.

Fidesz, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's conservative ruling party, presented the legislation last week and plans to vote on the bills on Tuesday.

They include a measure aimed at fighting paedophilia along with other amendments prohibiting transmitting information about LGBT people or same-sex relationships to youth.

Fidesz describes the legislation as an effort to protect children from paedophilia.

But Lydia Gall, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch, said equating sexual and gender diversity with pedophilia attacked the dignity of LGBT people and risked putting them in danger.

Gall called the legislation "a cynical, distasteful and deliberate attempt by the Orban government to trample the rights of LGBT people and essentially make them invisible in Hungarian society".

Dunja Mijatovic, the commissioner for human rights at the Council of Europe, the continent's leading human rights body, asked Hungarian lawmakers to reject the legislation.

The Hungarian amendments would outlaw any depiction or discussion of different gender identity and sexual orientation in public, including in schools and the media.

Some human rights groups have compared the planned ban to a discriminatory 2013 Russian law banning so-called gay "propaganda," widely viewed as a tool of discrimination.

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[Abyss.]

I live in Budapest, this mob is just a loud sick minority...The new law only states in relation to homosexuality that a child under the age of 18 should not receive any lmbtq propaganda, but as soon as the last 18 years old she is free to dispose of it if she is homosexual. So, in fact, the rights of homosexuals are not violated in any way..

[thegermanfool]

They had the right damn idea children shouldn't be worrying about sexual preferences or what their genders are

CHILDREN SHOULD BE WORRYING ABOUT BEING KIDS AND HAVE FUN
It's honestly sad and embarrassing that these grown women and men would March and try to reverse the laws it just shows how horrible of a society we live in

[Marek_Scifi_Lover]

THANK YOU HUNGARY ! THANK YOU ! FOR NOT FOLLOWING SICK TRENDS BUT STAYING NORMAL AND FOLLOWING SCIENCE !

[robertw]

Something you should know, Hungry - Satan never compromises. This is why they're coming after you.

[FamilyPraiseChannel]

I wish leaders lead by truth, I know it is hard some will say "what is truth"
Come back to love of GOD and his ways

[definetly_not_a_diddler]

I am ashamed of these people but they won't be getting shot no laws for them.

[hollowvalkyrie]

Love is love leave people alone. children can grow and choose their own choices in that matter.

[bltlife]

I love the comment sections on stories like this. It's nice to know that the bigots are miserable. 🍿

[AutoGamerZ_]

My respect to those who gone out to protest this atrocious law. Can't wait to see what the courts, especially the European ones (Given the law violates multiple binding EU treaties) think of this when this gets challenged.

[binghamguevara]

Read "Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece" by William A. Percy. It's the scariest book I've ever read.