{"id":421528,"date":"2025-03-17T17:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/03\/17\/ungheria-governo-legge-vieta-pride-orban\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T17:42:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T16:42:42","slug":"hungary-government-introduces-bill-to-ban-pride-in-budapest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/03\/17\/hungary-government-introduces-bill-to-ban-pride-in-budapest\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary, government introduces bill to ban Pride in Budapest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; Despite the condemnations of Brussels, the Magyar executive continues to persecute Hungary&#8217;s&nbsp;<strong>Lgbt community<\/strong>&nbsp;and, after years of attacks, aims to ban the country&#8217;s most emblematic rainbow rights event, Budapest Pride.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today (March 17), to the outrage of civil rights groups,&nbsp;<span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">several members of the governing coalition submitted a bill to parliament that would&nbsp;<strong>ban<\/strong>&nbsp;the&nbsp;<strong>Budapest Pride<\/strong>&nbsp;event and<\/span>&nbsp;authorise city authorities to&nbsp;<span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">use<strong>&nbsp;facial<\/strong><\/span><strong>&nbsp;recognition<\/strong> software to identify any participants. Attending the event will also result in <strong>fines<\/strong> of up to 200,000 Hungarian forints (about 500 euros), which the state will earmark for &#8220;child protection.&#8221; The coalition currently holds a two-thirds majority in the legislative assembly, which implies that the bill will <strong>almost certainly become law<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The ban on the pride, which celebrates its 30th edition this year, is only the latest in a series of measures that go in the direction of <strong>homophobia<\/strong> and transphobia: several previous laws, adopted in 2020, had banned same-sex couples from adopting children and eliminated legal recognition of transgender people. The government of<strong> Viktor Orban<\/strong> has always presented itself as a champion of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/03\/17\/the-two-demonstrations-in-budapest-orban-vs-magyar-the-opposition-leader\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">values<\/a> typical of the traditional family and Christian civilization, threatened by what is called &#8220;gender madness.&#8221; In this spirit, the <strong>Child Protection<\/strong> law was enacted in 2021, aimed at combating &#8220;deviations of morality&#8221; by banning the &#8220;depiction and promotion&#8221; of homosexuality in contexts available to minors, including literature, film, and television. As early as February, Orban declared his intention to ban pride.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fidesz party calls for child protection law, facial recognition and fines for participants planned. 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