Sziget Festival in trouble: government office investigation over LGBTQ video

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We reported earlier that government-close media outlets and the deputy interior minister slammed one of the festival’s promotion videos because it depicted a lesbian couple. The conflict escalated on the first workday after the Sziget Festival started, last Monday, with an investigation launched by the Budapest government office.

As we unfolded the story in THIS article, government-close media outlets under the supervision of the KESMA foundation wrote that Sziget violated the Hungarian child protection law by showing a lesbian couple kissing in one of their promotional videos. Bence Rétvári, the deputy interior minister, condemned the following promo video:

https://youtu.be/SCT-70k3nLE

Rétvári said the festival’s organisers intentionally provoked the Hungarian conservatives by airing such a video. However, while aggressively pushing the LGBTQ propaganda, they also maltreat sexual minorities by selling them out for profit. Earlier, Szilárd Demeter, the leader of the Petőfi Cultural Agency and owner of a large chunk of the territory where the Sziget Festival is held, said there might come a time when they stop supporting the Sziget Festival.

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Investigation launched over Sziget promo video

And it appears, the dispute doesn’t end with the festival. According to Magyar Nemzet, the leading newspaper of the government-close media, the National Legal Aid Service (Nemzeti Jogvédő Szolgálat) reported the video to the Budapest government office’s customer protection service and asked them to call on Youtube and Google to take it down. They argued that it doesn’t follow the Hungarian law, and besides such content should not be accessible by minors.

Queenz in da house party on Sziget – will that be another reason for investigation?

NJSZ believes the promotional video showing a lesbian couple in one of its first scenes breaches the so-called child protection law of Hungary, which states that promoting homosexuality to an underage audience is strictly forbidden. However, the video doesn’t give an age-restricted warning. NJSZ said the video is an additional example of aggressive LGBTQ propaganda. The government office said they started an ex officio investigation. First, they collect evidence, and after assessing them, they will decide whether to launch a procedure.

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Meanwhile, the owner of Orbán’s Fidesz party membership book nr 5, and a right-wing influencer, Zsolt Bayer, harshly slammed Giorgo Fekete, the frontman of the Carson Coma. Giorgo wore a T-shirt with a slogan “Homophobes are gay” during his Sziget performance. Mr Bayer called Giorgo a “piece of shit” afterwards.

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