Oddly enough, a law was passed in Hungary last month that prohibited the display of LGTBI content in schools and televisions. Although many countries, including Spain, were against this new regulation, finally the government of Víktor Orbán approved a law that prohibits the viewing of tapes by persons under 18 years of age. como “Harry Potter”, “Billy Elliot” o incluso “Friends”.
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Now, it is beginning to be noticed how the regulations take effect, and an example of this has been the case of a literary company. Is about a Hungarian chain of bookstores, who has been fined for do not include the warning to the parents next to a children’s book where illustrated couples of the same sex appeared. The tome, a children’s story, depicts a boy with his parents, both men, prompting the Hungarian government to condemn him.
The volume is a Hungarian translation of “Early one morning”, by Lawrence Schimel (in Spanish it is edited under the title “Soon in the morning”), as well as “It is not time to play”, both children’s stories .. And exactly reflects to a homo parental couple which, for the country whose capital is Budapest, is worthy of a fine: according to a government official, it broke a law on unfair business practices, and will have to pay 250,000 florins, which equals 700 euros.
The government inspector, Richard Tarnai, explained it to HiTV: “The book was placed among other fairy tale books and therefore violated the law.” The play “did not show that the stories included patterns of behavior other than traditional gender roles”.
For its part, the publisher that publishes the book has also decided to speak out, stating that “all families deserve to have a fairy tale about them.” “Rainbow families are completely normal and parental sexuality is not a topic in the book,” he says in a statement posted via Facebook.
Also Schimel himself, author of the “controversial” translated book, has opined via Twitter that the Hungarian government “is trying to normalize hatred and prejudice with these concerted attacks against books like mine, which represent the plural world for children and diverse in which they live ”. In addition, the writer has explained to “The Guardian” that the idea of these books is “to celebrate Queer families, so that the only books available for children are not about conflicts.”
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/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/larazon/ASMRCZSI55DR5ELYXFCXP47CDM.jpg "Hungary fines a chain of bookstores for selling an illustrated children’s story with LGTBI families")
