The Hungarian government has also introduced a new set of constitutional amendments seeking to restrict adoption to heterosexual couples, and legislation to revoke any recognition of transgender people by requiring them to be referred to by their assigned sex at birth.
Under Orbán, the Hungarian government has also called for a boycott of Coca-Cola after it ran some ads picturing gay couples, and withdrew from the Eurovision song contest, allegedly because the contest was “too gay” and too permissive of non-traditional sexual and gender roles. “I don’t think that the traditional concept of marriage has changed just because we came into another millennium,” he said. At the time, he dismissed critics who argued the constitution was not “a 21st-century constitution,” as he had previously claimed, because it did not guarantee LGBTQ rights. In 2011, Szájer boasted of personally rewriting Hungary’s constitution to ban same-sex marriage. Opposition parties in Hungary have pounced on the incident, claiming it demonstrates hypocrisy on behalf of Fidesz politicians, who have tried to cast their party as “family-friendly” and dedicated to “traditional values.”īesides its general political conservatism, Orbán’s government has become beest known for embracing legislation hostile to LGBTQ rights.
