Hungarian lawmakers handed laws Tuesday that prohibits sharing with minors any content material that portrays or promotes homosexuality or intercourse reassignment to anybody beneath 18.
The National Assembly handed the invoice on a 157-1 vote. The ruling Fidesz get together has a parliamentary majority, and lawmakers from the right-wing Jobbik get together additionally endorsed the measure.
All different opposition events boycotted the voting session to protest discrimination in opposition to LGBT individuals. The laws, offered final week by Fidesz, is primarily aimed toward combating pedophilia but additionally consists of amendments that ban the illustration of any sexual orientation apart from heterosexual and intercourse reassignment info in class intercourse teaching programs, in addition to in movies and commercials aimed toward anybody beneath 18.
LGBT activists in Hungary and worldwide organisations sharply criticised the invoice and in contrast it to a 2013 Russian legislation banning so-called homosexual “propaganda”. LGBT and human rights activists held protests to attempt to strain lawmakers into defeating the invoice.
