Participants condemned the text adopted in the summer of 2021, which prohibits “representation or promotion” of homosexuality and change of sex with minors.
Le Monde
A year after the entry into force of a law deemed discriminatory, several thousand Hungarians paraded on Saturday July 23 in Budapest to defend the rights of LGBT+. Giant heart, flags and shades in the colors of the rainbow, the demonstration took place legally along the Danube by scorching heat.
The participants, including foreign diplomats, condemned the text adopted in the summer of 2021, which prohibits “the representation or promotion” of homosexuality and the change of sex with minors. On a city bridge, counter-demonstrators had deployed a banner making the amalgam between homosexuality and pedophilia, like the law.
Untlassed in Europe
The Hungarian law, which was originally aimed at fighting pedocrime, had raised a outcry last year in Europe: the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, had spoken of “shame”. In the process, the European executive had launched an offense procedure against Hungary, before seizing mid-July the Court of Justice of the European Union.
The nationalist and ultra -conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose country is in the crosshairs of Brussels for its damage to the rule of law, assures that the law is not homophobic and aims to “protect the rights of children” . On Saturday, on the occasion of a speech in Romania, he reaffirmed the position of the government: “The father is a man, the mother is a woman, leave our children quiet”. He rejects “Western absurdities” on the subject.