This is what the M4L and other fundamentalist Christian racist bigot groups want here in the US. This is what they are trying to do. Wipe the existence of LGBTQIA people from public sight / society. They want us gone, outlawed, a progressive society of equality for all so all can live freely as themselves without oppression from government or other people. Instead, they want to replace it with the regressive oppressive society of the 1950s and worse only allow the public display of church approved doctrine. Remember when on TV married couples could only be shown going to bed in separate beds, because god forbid people get the idea that married people slept together back then. The idea that non-married actors would lay down on the same surface was pornographic even if they had their clothing on and were playing a married couple. Remember when the only way a gay or lesbian character could be shown is as a depraved villain who got destroyed somehow by the end of the film, showing that good church doctrines triumph over such evil beings every time. See that is the society they think everyone should be forced to live today, by church doctrines, never letting on people have sexual desires or that anything other than straight cis people exist or are good people. This is the person Orbán, that the right wing pushes as the perfect way to run the US, he is a complete authoritarian driven to change the country and government to his view of morality and under his personal control. Former rights and liberties have been restricted and outlawed. When people show you who they are, believe them. This who the fundamentalist right wing Christian majority are. Hugs. Scottie
The Associated Press reports:
Hungary’s cultural minister on Monday fired the director of the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest, accusing him of failing to comply with a contentious law that bans the display of LGBTQ+ content to minors.
The dismissal of Laszlo L. Simon, who became director of the museum for a five-year term in 2021, came after Hungary’s government determined in late October that five photos on display at the prestigious World Press Photo exhibition violated the law restricting children’s access to content that depicts homosexuality or gender change.
The museum subsequently put a notice on its website and at the entrance to the World Press Photo exhibition — which showcases outstanding photojournalism — that the collection was restricted to visitors over 18.
Read the full article. Writing this morning on his Facebook page, Simon notes that the age restriction went into place immediately upon the government’s order, adding, “As a father and grandparent of four children, I strongly refuse that our children should be protected from me or the institution I manage.”
As I noted last week, the five offending photos merely portray elderly queer Filipinos caring for each other in a group home they’ve shared for decades. Speaking this weekend to Florida Republicans, Trump again lavished praise on Hungarian strongman Viktor Orban and again falsely claimed that Hungary and Russia share a border.
For years we were lectured about how easily triggered we were…. Again projection.
I assume they wouldn’t even know the subjects of the photos were gay except the descriptions of the photos informed them of it? Image how delicate and unstable they must be to be trigger just by knowing that someone is gay.
One of the five photographs. I’m using it in my week of lectures on Southeast Asia in ten days.
Hannah Reyes Morales for The New York Times (2022) “Members of the Golden Gays community unwind at home after a show, in Manila, the Philippines.”
Clay, you know Joe’s rules about lewd, graphic, and salacious imagery here. 😉
I have no idea what’s LGBTQ about that pic.
The people are queer. That’s enough for the fascists to censor. Other images in the show are more distinctly queer, but none of them are sexual.
‘Look queer’ hmmm that’s a conundrum.
Idiotic, but that’s the way fascists roll. I saw the exhibition in Montréal in August. If you’re a normal person, the elderly queer Filipinos caring for one another were among the most hopeful and least disturbing in the show. Other images feature bloody war, famine, terrorism, environmental catastrophe etc. But it’s the caring queens that’s supposedly too much for youths. It should be noted that Budapest is NOT Orban-friendly like other parts of Hungary.
Yeah, I can’t imagine there is much sexual content in a series of photos taken at a Philippine care home. I could be wrong.
You’re not wrong. A link to the photos and the young photographer. She did beautiful work for a project that was obviously personal for her.
Edited to correct link.
Thanks for sharing that. Gender fluidity in precolonial Philippines tracks the tradition of other Pacific Island and First Nations cultures. Trans persons were referred to as Babaylan, Hawaiian and Tahitians were Mahu and held similar roles in pre-contact society. Generally perceived as shaman or spiritual beings.
It’s time to give dogs a shot at running the world
How exactly would those photos damage children? Were there nudity? Sexual content? Or is it too much for the fragile Hungarians to see men taking care of other men?
Anti abortion is never about pro-life, anti drag queen is never about children grooming and so on and so forth. This is the standard fascist talking point.
The latter, not surprisingly. The images weren’t sexual. The caring and fluid gender roles were what disturbed the powers that be.
Harmless images of gay seniors somehow are more offensive than the scantilly clad beach goers? These fascists love to make a mountain out of a molehill to spin their lies.
Hungary has become a fascist state where there is neither freedom of expression nor freedom of sexual identity.
Freedom of any kind, pretty much.
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