Human rights advocates warned that the ban on LGBT portrayals in media and schools could harm the mental health of LGBT youth.
Háttér Társaság, one of the oldest LGBT NGOs in Hungary, pointed out that their 2017 study found that more than half of LGBT students have felt unsafe at school, and more than two-thirds suffered some type of verbal abuse regarding their sexual orientation.
The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union urged civil disobedience against sections of the law targeting sexual minorities.
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Several members of the governing party are known to have spoken out against sexual minorities, most famously parliament speaker László Kövér, who compared
same-sex couples’ adoption rights to paedophilia, concluding:
“A normal homosexual is aware of the order of things in the world … and tries to fit in while not necessarily thinking he is equal.”
Viktor Orbán’s government had been carefully crafting the
narrative against sexual minorities for years, and going beyond
identity politicking and inflammatory rhetorics, this resulted in legislation curbing LGBT rights on several occasions.