“It’s not accidental, and it’s hard to deny the coordination between Russia, Poland and Hungary,” says Viktoria Radvanyi, a staff member with Budapest Pride.
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Similarly in Russia, a homophobic law banning “gay propaganda” has repeatedly been used to target activists, and in July, a draft bill to the country’s Family Code proposed a formal ban on gay marriage and adoption, including by transgender people, as well introducing a “sex at birth” indication on birth certificates which cannot be changed.
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Poland has also faced international criticism and EU funding withdrawal because of its ‘ LGBT free zones’ across the country. “This falls in a larger trend of official anti-LGBTI hate speech documented in other European countries,” says Katrin Hugendubel, Advocacy Director at ILGA-Europe, as populist leaders seek to shore up support from voters by trying to appeal to “family values.” Ahead of Poland’s election earlier this summer, incumbent president Andrezj Duda called called the promotion of LGBT rights an “ideology” worse than Communism, running on a “Family Charter” campaign platform that included promises to prevent gay couples from marrying or adopting children and to ban teaching about LGBT issues in schools. “When you wake up in the morning, and see that yet another politician says something very bad about the LGBTQIA community, it’s really undermining the wellbeing and mental health of the community in Hungary.” According to the second LGBTI Survey of the Fundamental Rights Agency, 81% of LGBTI Hungarians believe that negative stance and discourse by politicians and political parties is the main reason for the increase in prejudice, intolerance or violence against LGBTI people in the country. Leading government officials have been saying quite nasty, very openly homophobic comments,” says Tamas Dombos, board and staff member at Hungarian LGBTQ organization Hatter Society, referring to Orban’s recent radio interview in particular as perpetuating harmful stereotypes. Activists also say that public and political discourse around LGBTQ rights has become increasingly hostile over the past two years-for instance, in 2019, the speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly compared same-sex couples wanting to adopt a children to pedophiles.“We’ve seen an increase in what we call political homophobia and transphobia. Earlier this year, the introduction of Article 33, which ended the legal recognition of transgender people, was another blow to the rights of LGBTQ people. A new constitution enacted in 2012 defined the “institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman,” and “the family as the basis of the survival of the nation,” excluding same-sex couples. Since Orban was elected to office in Hungary, in 2010, the LGBTQ community has come under increasing attack. But there is a red line that cannot be crossed, and this is how I would sum up my opinion: Leave our children alone.” A co-ordinated petition and campaign organized by ultra-conservative campaign group CitizenGO demanding the book’s removal from bookstores has gained at least 85,000 signatures. 4, Orban said “Hungary is a patient, tolerant country as regards homosexuality.
When questioned about the book during a radio interview on Oct. 25, the deputy leader of Hungary’s far-right Mi Hazank party tore apart the book’s pages one by one during a press conference, calling it “homosexual propaganda.” The move was swiftly condemned by human rights activists and the Hungarian Publishers’ and Booksellers Association, who called the act reminiscent of Nazi book-burners and Communist book shredders. Yet shortly after its release, A Fairy Tale for Everyone became the target of homophobic attacks by politicians, including the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, and is facing a public boycott. Illustration by Lilla Bölecz for 'Meseorszag mindenkie' or 'A Fairy Tale for Everyone'
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