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The death of Milán Rózsa, Hungary’s Harvey Milk
Milán Rózsa was born just a year before the fall of the Berlin Wall, in 1988. He had no personal experience fighting for rights and freedoms, something that an earlier generation of young Hungarians...
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András Stumpf and homosexuality: gay rights as understood by a young...
András Stumpf is a prominent thirty-something conservative publicist, known most for his self-assured, sometimes aggressive and always irreverently outspoken style. He sometimes reminds me of a young,...
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Fidesz mayor Máté Kocsis and the hysteria around refugees in Hungary
Máté Kocsis, the Fidesz party mayor of Budapest’s 8th district, is among the most avid Facebook users in Hungary, and in his case it’s not a press secretary posting updates on his behalf, but the mayor...
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Homophobia in Hungary’s Roma community
Dezső Máté is a Junior Research Fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ Institute for Minority Studies whose work focuses on the fate of a minority within a minority: namely the treatment of Gay...
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Calling someone a homosexual is defamation in Hungary
In a landmark case, a Budapest court ruled that calling someone a homosexual in public can be seen as defamation of good character. The decision is astounding, even if the justice argued –somewhat...
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Fidesz Budapest president declares: Long live heterosexual pride!
Máté Kocsis, Mayor of Budapest’s 8th District and the ruling Fidesz party’s president in the Hungarian capital, launched another homophobic tirade, after a court ruled that a liberal politician’s...
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Fidesz mayor Máté Kocsis gets shut down by Facebook after homophobic tirade
It was another bad week for the increasingly erratic Máté Kocsis, the Fidesz party mayor of Budapest’s 8th District, after the politician, who is also the ruling party’s president in Budapest, went on...
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Pastor Steven Anderson — A vitriolic American Baptist and his Hungarian...
Pastor Steven Anderson of Arizona’s Faithful Word Baptist Church often claims to have a monopoly on “true,” undiluted “Bible-believing” Christianity. In his mind, Christ’s message is not of redemption...
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Billy Elliot is not tolerated by the homophobe Orbán regime in Budapest
Gay bashing seems to be the official policy in Hungary. The Orbán Government has no openly gay members and there are no gays in the ruling Fidesz party either. Orbán loyalists have no gay relatives,...
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“Homophobia has been central to Viktor Orban’s fascist ideology” — Jerrad...
In recent years Hungary’s Orbán government has targeted the Roma community, Hungary’s Jews and now the LGBTQ community. Racism, anti-Semitism and Holocaust falsification are institutionalized in...
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