{"id":5768,"date":"2021-08-08T13:36:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T13:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5768"},"modified":"2021-08-08T13:36:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T13:36:47","slug":"how-hatred-of-gay-people-became-a-key-plank-in-hungarys-authoritarian-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5768","title":{"rendered":"How hatred of gay people became a key plank in Hungary\u2019s authoritarian turn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“The new Hungarian regulations on LGBTQ expression are broad. Among other things, they prohibit sex educators from instructing students about LGBTQ sexuality and ban television stations from airing content \u201cpopularizing<\/a>\u201d LGBTQ identity outside the hours of 10 pm to 5 am. The regulations also prohibit films or advertisements from representing same-sex physical acts or gender-affirmation surgery in materials targeted at individuals under 18<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what counts as \u201cpopularizing\u201d LGBTQ identity, and what sorts of art count as being targeted at kids? According to local media and human rights groups, the bill isn\u2019t especially clear on these points \u2014 raising fears about censorship. RTL Klub<\/a>, the country\u2019s largest television channel, warned that \u201cseries like Modern Family<\/em> would be banned, as would some episodes of Friends<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No less troubling: By declaring LGBTQ programming harmful for children, the law dehumanizes queer couples and individuals, legally codifying the notion that their very existence threatens Hungarian society.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This bill is not a one-off. Since coming to power in 2010, Orb\u00e1n has systematically undermined LGBTQ rights in Hungary. The most significant early move was a constitutional provision banning same-sex marriage enacted in 2012<\/a>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In December 2020, the government approved a constitutional reform package that strengthened the anti-LGBTQ constitutional provisions: It stated that the family is defined as being \u201cbased on marriage and the parent-child relation. The mother is a woman, the father a man.\u201d The December legislative package also banned adoption by same-sex couples<\/a> and abolished the Equal Treatment Authority<\/a>, Hungary\u2019s most important nondiscrimination agency covering LGBTQ rights.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22547228\/hungary-orban-lgbt-law-pedophilia-authoritarian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The new Hungarian regulations on LGBTQ expression are broad. Among other things, they prohibit sex educators from instructing students about LGBTQ sexuality and ban television stations from airing content \u201cpopularizing\u201d LGBTQ identity outside the hours of 10 pm to 5 am. The regulations also prohibit films or advertisements from representing same-sex physical acts or gender-affirmation surgery in materials targeted at individuals under 18.<\/p>\n

But what counts as \u201cpopularizing\u201d LGBTQ identity, and what sorts of art count as being targeted at kids? According to local media and human rights groups, the bill isn\u2019t especially clear on these points \u2014 raising fears about censorship. RTL Klub, the country\u2019s largest television channel, warned that \u201cseries like Modern Family would be banned, as would some episodes of Friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

No less troubling: By declaring LGBTQ programming harmful for children, the law dehumanizes queer couples and individuals, legally codifying the notion that their very existence threatens Hungarian society.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“This bill is not a one-off. Since coming to power in 2010, Orb\u00e1n has systematically undermined LGBTQ rights in Hungary. The most significant early move was a constitutional provision banning same-sex marriage enacted in 2012.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“In December 2020, the government approved a constitutional reform package that strengthened the anti-LGBTQ constitutional provisions: It stated that the family is defined as being \u201cbased on marriage and the parent-child relation. The mother is a woman, the father a man.\u201d The December legislative package also banned adoption by same-sex couples and abolished the Equal Treatment Authority, Hungary\u2019s most important nondiscrimination agency covering LGBTQ rights.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[696,969,919],"class_list":["post-5768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-gay","tag-hungary","tag-lgbtq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5769,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768\/revisions\/5769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}