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razoo » 28 Apr 2023, 6:14 pm » wrote: ↑

28 Apr 2023, 6:14 pm

The U.S. Right Wing Looks to Hungary for Inspiration

This month the right-dominated Parliament of Hungary passed a federal law encouraging its citizens to report same-sex families with children to local authorities. The bill targets same-sex families for breaching the “constitutionally recognized role of marriage and the family.”

This isn’t the first attack by Hungary’s Parliament on the small Eastern European country’s LGBTQ communities. In 2020, Hungary ended the legal recognition of transgender and intersex people, leading to the end of previous provisions under which transgender Hungarians could change their gender designations and names on official documents. In 2021, the Parliament also passed legislation that banned the inclusion of LGBTQ people in school educational materials, which was likened to Russia’s 2013 law against “gay propaganda.”

Additionally, in 2022, the government passed a censorship law that prohibited LGBTQ individuals from being featured in educational materials for youth and banned companies from making advertisements that support the LGBTQ community if the product being advertised could be considered to be targeting youth.

For people in the United States who have been experiencing and following the relentless legislative attacks on LGBTQ people this year in the U.S. — including more than 450 bills across the country and 10 anti-LGBTQ bills introduced in Florida alone — Hungary’s escalating legislative attacks on LGBTQ lives sound chillingly familiar, and the echoes between the attacks in both countries are not just coincidental

https://truthout.org/articles/floridas- ... c2fd52471-