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Hungary's Crackdown on LGBTQ+ Literature: Bookstore Fined for Selling 'Heartstopper' Novel

Originally Published 2 years ago — by NBC News

Hungary's second-largest bookstore chain, Lira Konyv, has been fined 12 million forints ($35,930) by a government office for placing the LGBTQ graphic novel "Heartstopper" in its youth literature section without closed packaging, violating a law that prohibits the depiction of homosexuality to minors. The fine is based on Hungary's controversial 2021 "child protection" law, which has been criticized as an attempt to stigmatize LGBTQ people. The European Union has backed legal action against the law, and the fine comes just before the Budapest Pride march.

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Hungary Bans Transgenderism and LGBTQ Propaganda for Minors.

Originally Published 2 years ago — by Fox News

Hungary's 2021 "Child Protection Law" has prompted legal proceedings from the European Commission and more than a dozen EU countries, who see the law as discriminatory and anti-LGBTQ. The law would ban content that "promotes or portrays" what it refers to as "divergence from self-identity corresponding to sex at birth, sex change or homosexuality" to minors. Balazs Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Political Director, defended the law, saying nearly 4 million Hungarians voted in favor of it and sent a clear message that they wanted to "ban transgenderism and LGBTQ propaganda for minors."

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