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Lifelong blood donation ban on gay and bisexual men in Hungary lifted
Megszűnt a meleg és biszexuális férfiak hátrányos megkülönböztetése a véradás során
Wednesday, May 6, 2020

The Hungarian National Blood Transfusion Service has published that as of January 1, 2020, men who have sex with men (MSM) are allowed to donate blood, unless their sexual behavior is otherwise risky. The new regulation puts an end to decades of discrimination against gay and bisexual men.

Hungarian government proposes bill to ban legal gender recognition amid COVID chaos
Kasznár Katalin - 24. Budapest Pride Felvonulás 2019
Thursday, April 2, 2020

22 months after the suspension of gender and name change requests, the government would now prohibit legal gender recognition of transgender people.

Equal Treatment Authority fines Budapest Mayor’s Office for blocking LGBTQI websites
A szórakoztató videókat nem, az LMBTQI szervezetek oldalait blokkolta a Főpolgármesteri Hivatal - milliós bírságot kapott
Wednesday, May 29, 2019

The Equal Treatment Authority imposed a 3,000 EUR fine on the Mayor’s Office of Budapest for blocking access to LGBTQI websites from its local network. The Authority found that this conduct harmed not only the organizations whose websites had been blocked, but also the whole LGBTQI community.

Hungarian Constitutional Court sides with trans refugee on legal gender recognition
Sajtóközlemény - Alkotmánybíróság: alapvető jog a transznemű emberek nemének jogi elismerése
Thursday, June 21, 2018

The lack of legislation on legal gender recognition and related name change for foreigners permanently residing in the country is unconstitutional – ruled the Hungarian Constitutional Court. The petitioner, an Iranian trans man was represented by the legal aid service of Háttér Society.

Equal Treatment Authority fines Hungarian university for banning LGBTQI roundtable
A Debreceni Egyetem főépülete (forrás: Wikipedia)
Thursday, May 31, 2018

The banning of an LGBTQI roundtable in April 2016 by the University of Debrecen and its subsidiary amounted to discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity - decided the Equal Treatment Authority, and imposed a fine of 100.000 HUF on the University.

Court: Hungary to recognize foreign same-sex marriages as registered partnerships
Sajtóközlemény - Jogerős: A magyar államnak is el kell ismernie a külföldi melegházasságokat bejegyzett élettársi kapcsolatként
Thursday, February 8, 2018

Same-sex marriages conducted abroad have to be recognized in Hungary as registered partnerships - says in a binding decision the Regional Court of Budapest. The case was launched by an American-Hungarian lesbian couple, whose Belgian marriage the Hungarian authorities would not register. Háttér Society provided legal representation to the couple.

Hungarian ombuds finds rejection of lesbian woman’s application to adopt unlawful
Sajtóközlemény - Ombudsman: Jogellenes volt a pécsi leszbikus nő örökbefogadási kérelmének elutasítása
Thursday, November 23, 2017

A recently published report of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights found that the Hungarian authorities’ decision to reject the application of a woman living with her same-sex partner to adopt a 16-month-old Roma girl infringed on the child’s right to protection and care, and amounted to unlawful discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Highest ever fine imposed on swimming-pool discriminating against LGBTQ sports club in Hungary
Kép: Atlasz Sportegyesület/Facebook
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

The Equal Treatment Authority found that a local-government run swimming pool discriminated against an LGBTQ sports club when it declined to rent out two of its swimming lanes for a sport event. The Authority imposed a fine of 1 million HUF.

Hungary: same-sex registered partners to receive all tax benefits afforded to spouses
Hungary: same-sex registered partners to receive all tax benefits afforded to spouses
Saturday, February 11, 2017

The National Tax and Customs Administration announced to revise its earlier policy discriminating against same-sex registered partners in matters of inheritance and personal income tax.

Perpetrators of racist-homophobic attack receive prison sentence in Hungary
Sajtóközlemény - Letöltendő börtön a melegeket és romákat verő gárdistáknak
Monday, November 7, 2016

Five men were found guilty of violence against a member of a community for attacking three participants of the Budapest Pride on July 6, 2013.

 

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