Anger was not the first feeling Boldizsar Nagy experienced when the book he had been trying to publish for 10 years was branded âhomosexual propagandaâ. It was fear.
The editor, from the small town of Zagyvarekas, 60 miles southeast of Budapest, had grown up unable to see himself in the stories he read. âIt was only when I got to university did I understand that I had a right to have a dignified representation of myself [in literature],â he said. âSo I decided then Iâd like to work on childrenâs books ⊠Iâd like to make books about diversity.â
A decade and countless rejections from wary publishers later, Mr Nagy finally got what he needed. A Fairytale for Everyone, an anthology of retellings of traditional fairy tales, was published by Hungarian lesbian rights group and NGO Labrisz. âI was bloody happy,â said Mr Nagy, now 40, who edited the book. âThat was my dream.â
But then came the backlash. Four days after publication, a politician, Dora Duro â a member of the far-right Our Homeland Movement â held a press conference to rail against the anthology. At the end of her diatribe, she ripped up the book page by page and dropped it through a shredder. âHomosexual princes are not part of Hungarian culture,â she said, claiming that âchildren are being subjected to homosexual propagandaâ.
Two weeks later, Hungaryâs prime minister, Viktor Orban, entered the debate. âHungary is a patient, tolerant country as regards homosexuality,â he said. âBut there is a red line that cannot be crossed, and this is how I would sum up my opinion: leave our children alone.â
Less than a year later, in 2021, Mr Orbanâs administration passed the âChild Protection Actâ (CPA), which banned the publishing of LGBT+ material for under 18s. The law has remained in place ever since.
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