Some films with LGBT+ representation now have the same age ranking as the “Saw” series in Hungary (YouTube/Optik) Hungary has issued shocking film ratings that equate LGBT+ representation with content in horror movies like Saw or The Exorcist. The new guidelines for broadcasters were issued by Hungary’s media regulator, the National Media and Infocommunications Authority
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Demonstrators march during annual Pride parade in defiance of anti-LGBT+ campaign waged by Hungarian government on 24 July 2021 in Budapest, Hungary. (Getty/Janos Kummer) The Hungarian government has ordered shops to sell children’s books seen as promoting LGBT+ themes in “closed wrapping”. Reuters reported the government decree, which was published Friday (6 August), also included
Activists fly a giant heart balloon in rainbow colors in front of the Hungarian parliament in Budapest on 8 July 2021. (Photo by ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP via Getty Images) A trans teacher has opened up about his fears that he might not be allowed to continue teaching after Hungary passed its cruel anti-LGBT+ law. Floris Fellegi-Balta,
Member of the European Parliament Jozsef Szajer gives a speech to launch the campaign of the right-wing Fidesz ruling party ahead of the European Parliament elections on April 5, 2019 in Budapest. (PETER KOHALMI/AFP via Getty) The organiser behind a so-called “daddy orgy” in Brussels, Belgium, attended by an anti-LGBT+ Hungarian lawmaker has filed a
Member of the European Parliament Jozsef Szajer gives a speech to launch the campaign of the right-wing Fidesz ruling party ahead of the European Parliament elections on April 5, 2019 in Budapest. (PETER KOHALMI/AFP via Getty) The organiser of a gay sex party that broke COVID restrictions, attended by anti-LGBT+ Hungarian MEP Jozsef Szajer, has
Viktor Orbán speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the WWI Trianon-memorial (Attila Kisbenedeck/AFP/Getty) Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán has used an event commemorating the end of WWI as an opportunity to launch yet another barb at LGBT+ people. The far-right leader made the comments at a national event to inaugurate a monument commemorating the Treaty
A woman holds a sign that says: “The traditional family is in danger, come together to defend it!” during a protest against homosexuality in Bucharest, May 20, 2017. The senate in Romania has passed a bill that, if signed by the president, will make it illegal to discuss gender identity in every school and university
Hungarian trans couple Tamara Csillag and Elvira Angyal. (Tamara Csillag/ Facebook) A Hungarian trans couple have described their life in limbo, after the country’s government passed a cruel and devastating law to legally erase them. Evaluations of Hungarian trans people’s applications to have their gender or name changed have been withheld since 2018, a ban
Merritt Corrigan. (WPA Intelligence/ Twitter) A new member of Donald Trump’s administration previously said that America is in the clutches of a “homo-empire” that pushes a “tyrannical LGBT+agenda”. Merritt Corrigan was recently appointed by Trump as deputy White House liaison at the US Agency for International Development (USAID), America’s foreign aid agency. The new Trump