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    8 months ago

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    A controversial Hungarian law bans the “display and promotion of homosexuality” in materials accessible to children, such as books and films.

    A far-right lawmaker had earlier demanded the government launch an inquiry into the exhibition over a series of photos that depicted a community of elderly LGBT people in the Philippines.

    She cited legislation introduced in Hungary in 2021 that prohibits under-18s from consuming material deemed to promote homosexuality, gay rights or gender change.

    World Press Photo executive director Joumana El Zein Khoury said the images contained “nothing explicit or offensive”.

    Speaking to the AP news agency before Mr Simon was sacked, she said: “What is harmful is limiting visibility for the LGBTQIA+ community, and their right to exist and to be seen.”

    In recent months, authorities used the same law to fine a bookseller for selling the popular British graphic novel Heartstopper - which features a love story between two male teenagers - without wrapping the book in a plastic cover.


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