30 Embassies publicly support the Budapest Pride and the LGBTQ community
A dozen of Cultural Institutes joined 30 Embassies that expressed their solidarity and support with the Budapest Pride and the whole LGBTQ community.
This year Pride month received even more international attention than usual. More precisely, Hungary was the talk of the town after the Hungarian government accepted the paedophile law that quickly gained the nickname “the homophobic law”.
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Naturally, the fate of the Budapest Pride was questioned by many, whether it would be organised or cancelled this summer. Not only it will be held, but the first-ever Hungarian Pride in the countryside will also take place.
Moreover, the event received some international support.
The US Embassy in Hungary issued a joint statement on their website, signed by 29 other Embassies and a dozen international Cultural Institutes, in support of the Budapest Pride.
“On the occasion of the 26th Budapest Pride Festival, we, the undersigned embassies and cultural institutes express our full support for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI+) community and their rights to equality and non-discrimination, freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, and freedom from violence.”, they write on their website.
They recognise the important advocacy of civil rights organisations to ensure equal treatment and the full protection of the law of all individuals, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
They express their concerns regarding the recent developments that threaten the principle of non-discrimination based on the sexual orientation or the gender by which a person identifies itself. Furthermore, they encourage every country to take steps to ensure the equality and dignity of all human beings.
The Embassies and Cultural Institutes also highlight their opinion on
the crucial role of elected leaders and governments to show respect for and protect the rights of all people, irrespectively from their sexual orientation.
They also add that the celebration of diversity is a key tool to promote respect for human rights for all. As they say, the Budapest Pride is the oldest event of its kind in the region, which gives it special importance and a particular role to enhance the equal treatment and social acceptance of LGBTQ+ people. Thus, “it contributes to creating a more open, just, inclusive and equal society.”, quotes 24.hu from the statement.
The following Embassies and Cultural Institutes signed the joint statement:
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, General Delegation of Flanders, Austrian Cultural Forum Budapest, British Council, Czech Center, Estonian Institute, FinnAgora, Goethe-Institut, Institut Français, Instituto Camões, Instituto Cervantes, Italian Cultural Institute, Wallonie-Bruxelles International
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Source: 24.hu, hu.usembassy.gov
The 29 Embassies in Hungary which signed that joint statement with the U.S. Embassy in Hungary represent countries which are all either decaying or totally putrid (they certainly demonstrate bizarre priorities).
As such, it’s not worth wasting one’s hard-earned money travelling to those 30 countries – stay at home and watch documentaries (minus ‘alphabet-people’ content) instead.
Your children’s minds will not be ‘polluted’ and the cash can be spent on far better things ……
30 embassy’s support moral degeneracy. And what if 200 don’t? So your advocating the minority should over rule the majority? No matter what this toilet paper advocates on this webpage I will not ever surrender morality to a bunch of sexual deviants. One day soon all you who think this is a good ideal will stand before the Creator and have to account for your disgusting deviant sexual perversion.
One day you will also have to stand before your creator and answer for why you hated his children so very much. Correct me if I’m wrong but I always got the vibe that Jesus was against judgement and prejudice. He seemed to stand for love not hate.
There is no discrimination against LGBT members. WHY ALL THAT FUSS????
Unfortunately, Not Mario, nobody will be standing in front of any creator as this life is all we have. Such a pity there will be no judgment nor eternal damnation for racist homophobic bigots such as you.
“it contributes to creating a more open, just, inclusive and equal society”…. Yeah, the media tribe behind the building of the wall which turned Gaza (and it’s Palestinian inhabitants) into the world’s greatest concentration camp are now asking us to be open, just, inclusive and equal… Hypocrisy knows no limit!