
Hungarian legislation banning the availability of LGBTQ+ content to minors violates European Union law and breaches a foundational treaty guaranteeing respect for human rights and equality, the bloc’s court ruled Tuesday.
The European Court of Justice said that Hungary's legislation, adopted in 2021 by the nationalist-populist government of outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, “stigmatizes and marginalizes" LGBTQ+ persons, and fails to uphold the EU's prohibition of discrimination based on sex or sexual orientation.