Anti-LGBT decrees in the Metropolitan Municipal Assembly of Budapest

Alert DateApril 25, 2012 Country: Hungary Address: Budapest General Type: Institutional discrimination Racism and discrimination phenomena: Homophobia
Groups affected / Interested in: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Key socio-economic/institutional areas: Culture, Political discourse -parties - orgs, Daily life Hate speech/Racist Discourse Medium: Public Discourse, Political Discourse
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On 25th April, at the Metropolitan Municipal Assembly of Budapest, both the center-right FIDESZ Party and the extrem-right Jobbik Party submitted requests which aimed to prohibit the 2012 Budapest Gay Dignity March. The submission of Jobbik claimed that ‘events which aim to promote the wide acceptance of sexual deviances, like homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and paedophile behaviour, should not get permission to be organized’ from the Municipal Assembly.[1] The submission of the governing conservative-right party, FIDESZ, signed by the mayor of Budapest, István Tarlós, the vice-mayor, Gábor Bagdy, and the mayor of the XII district, Zoltán Pokorni, states that the ‘municipality should not give permission to events which aim to popularize provocative and indecent behaviours or ways of life’. After an ensuing heated debate between the various council members both submissions were retracted.[2]

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Sources:

  1. Népszabadság, 18.04.2012, A Jobbik rendelettel akadályozná meg a melegfelvonulást [Jobbik want to stop the Gay Procession with a decree], http://nol.hu/belfold/a_jobbik_rendelettel_akadalyozna_meg_a_melegfelvonulast, Accessed on 27.01.2013.
  2. Origo.hu, 25.04.2012, Megfeneklett Tarlósék obszcenitás elleni harca [The fight of Tarlós against obscenity fails], http://www.origo.hu/itthon/20120425-a-melegfelvonulast-betilto-fovarosi-rendelet-megfeneklett.html, Accessed on 27.01.2013