Hungary passes constitutional amendment banning public LGBTQ+ events
The law also allows the government to use facial recognition technology to identify those who attend prohibited events
APRIL 14, 2025
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The law also allows the government to use facial recognition technology to identify those who attend prohibited events
The country currently bans the "promotion of non-traditional sexual relations" to minors; legislators want to extend that to include adults.
About a dozen people were arrested and convicted of "petty hooliganism."
The move effectively eliminates LGBTQ+ support networks and signals a larger crackdown on the country's already vulnerable queer community.
State media reports the popular language learning app and ally self-censored after a complaint from Siberia.
The purge of films, including Brokeback Mountain, began last year.
One man says he is "scared" for his boyfriend who remains in jail.
Daria Kasatkina will be representing her "new homeland" from now on.
The proposal toughens the 2013 law against so-called "gay propaganda."
The company had earlier been fined for not restricting access to films like Brigit Jones’ Diary.
A Moscow court took Anton Yevdokimov seriously — or at least thought his joke amounted to pro-LGBTQ+ "propaganda" — and fined him 100,000 rubles, equivalent to about $950.
This is not the first time Apple has run afoul of Russian authorities for refusing to censor content under Putin.
A second new law bans "childfree propaganda" with 5 million ruble fines (the equivalent of $48,000).
The Russian president made the remark in a speech defending what he called the "spiritual values and historical traditions" of his country.
The two bills are the latest in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attacks on the LGBTQ+ community.
The judge handed down a harsh sentence for Alexandra Skochilenko, who switched out price tags with antiwar messages in a supermarket protest last year.
The proposal will be discussed by legislators this fall.
The Republican Georgia congresswoman claims, among other things, that gun control laws are a way to keep conservatives from fighting "the trans agenda."
Russia’s media watchdog scrutinized the language app for alleged ‘LGBT propaganda.’ Really.
Gay bars and a gay sauna were raided by police less than two days after the country’s supreme court declared the “international LGBT social movement” to be an “extremist” element.
The law extends the current ban to prohibit sharing LGBTQ-related information with adults as well.