Hungary LGBT+ community icons in public buildings
The Hungarian government says so The ban is aimed at “ensuring the protection and preservation required for the proper physical, mental and moral development of the child.”
Antonio Bronic
The Hungarian government has banned the demonstration of the LGBT+ community’s rainbow flags and other symbols in government buildings from this Friday, claiming to protect minors and their physical and mental development.
Decree published in Dirio da Republica, signed by Prime Minister Victor Orban The prohibition targets “to ensure the protection and preservation required for the proper physical, mental and moral development of the child” And lock “LGBT+ads”, which is “small target”.
This decree prohibits the use of “different sex and gender tendencies, as well as the use of symbols that refer to them, as well as referring to them.
According to the Independent News site, the Prime Minister’s Office claims that it is a symbolic measure because it is not the standard method of using such symbols in government buildings Telex.hu.
Budapest mayor, liberal and environmentalist Gergli Karasi, in a statement this Friday, as in 2019, “flag (rainbows) is now growing in the City Hall building, because it is here.”
Last March, the Orban government accepted a legal reform that would ban homosexuals or sexual minorities, which would violate the rights of children and compromise the development that would be considered “enough”.
This measure has received harsh criticism inside and outside the country, a member of the European Union.
Despite these bans, LGBT+ and human rights agencies have announced that the Budapest Gay Pride will take place on March 28.
Last week, More than 60 European parliamentarians have announced their intention to participate in the Gay Pride March of Budapest.
Orban took power in 2010 and over the past 15 years, his government and mostly two -thirds of the parliamentary LGBT+community have legally limited the rights of the community.
