July 13th, 2009

President reportedly turns down requests for meeting with gay rights groups

President László Sólyom has refused a weekend request for a meeting from gay organisations, citing a busy schedule.

In seeking a meeting, the groups pointed out that radical nationalist organisations such as Jobbik, the Magyar Gárda, the 64 Counties Youth Movement and others have announced that they will try to prevent the Gay Pride March scheduled for September 5.

Gay groups hoped that Sólyom’s support would increase their acceptance.

Sólyom said he had other engagements. If other organisations try to demonstrate at the same place and time as the gay march, then it is up to the authorities to enforce the law, he observed.

“We are disappointed, since the President should affirm that all citizens have equal rights,” said Sándor Steigler of the Rainbow Mission Foundation.

Topics
Share
Comments
The All Hungary Media Group is firmly committed to freedom of expression and therefore applies a mostly "hands off" approach to comment moderation. Comments left by readers represent their own views and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or beliefs of the staff, editors or owner of the All Hungary Media Group, who nonetheless reserve the right to remove comments that are off-topic or which moderators consider to constitute "hate speech." Also note that in order to prevent spam we generally close entries off to comments several days after publication.

8 Comments

  1. Trojan Horse says:

    The enlightened among us know that homosexuals are homosexuals! They themselves want to and insist on being called Gays because the word “homosexual” rightfully has the connotation of something “deviant,’ “perverse,” “weird,” and “aberrant”. That’s because it is. That’s why I and everyone should refuse to call homosexuals Gays… The truth is, that most of them aren’t “gay”. They’re actually quite unhappy.

  2. LHVJ says:

    He should have met them. Scumbag solyom and homos belong with each other.

  3. wolfi says:

    @LYNCH and Law and Trojan:
    Why don’t you get together for some fun – maybe then you could relax …
    PS: No, I won’t tell anyone …

  4. olga says:

    @ All
    Me thinks someone is rather obsessed with gay issues and I wonder why.
    The article is dated July 2009, the event was scheduled for over a year ago. What exactly was the point of resurrecting this thread?
    Today, the American press is full of stories about “men of the cloth” who preached most vehemently against homosexuality being charged with the sexual abuse of male youth in their congregations
    Thus, I get very suspicious about men who have all this hatred against gays and although I don’t know any straight men who either attend the gay parade or object to the gay parade in Toronto. It’s kind of a “non issue” yet it’s on Trojan Horse’s and LHVJ’s mind after 14 month of an article being published. Interesting

  5. Bystander says:

    I agree — it seems that those who scream the
    loudest against gay people almost ALWAYS are hiding
    something (see latest hypocrite news below):
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ant
    igay-us-cleric-sought-massages-from-young-men-
    2088125.html
    I think that phenomenon is what we see right here on
    this site… I’ll try and refrain from mentioning
    any names like Ricsi, Law, LHVJ, and ooops, did I
    just mention names?

  6. Cináed says:

    I see the homophobia discussion has migrated
    here…I just posted a link on the other thread.
    It’s worth checking out…it’s about a study
    conducted at the university of georgia about
    responses to stimuli by homophobic men

  7. Bystander says:

    On a note related to homophobes actually being
    closet gay people, here’s a link to interesting
    article about former Polish skinheads finding out
    they were actually *Jewish*…
    http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/09/23/poland.je
    wish/?hpt=C1
    I’d say chances are NOT bad that Law, LHVJ, or Ricsi
    etc. have a little Jew-blood in them considering the
    population of “Judapest” around the turn of the last
    century. How funny would THAT be? :)
    I suggest they go look up some genealogical records
    … they’d probably slash their wrists…