Prime Minister of Hungary condemns attacks on gays; supports same-sex marriage

[Bluebear]

The Prime Minister of Hungary, Ferenc Gyurcsány, has said he utterly condemns people who pelted a gay Pride in Budapest with eggs and attacked revellers. On Saturday 10th July skinheads and fascists massed along the 7km (4.3 mile) route of the march for gay rights. They threw eggs and bottles filled with sand at the marchers. Later that evening almost a dozen gay people were set upon and beaten.

Pride organisers accused the police of not doing enough to protect them.

Mr Gyurcsány told TV2 that he regarded the incidents as "brutal, unacceptable, and outrageous." He said that most Hungarians were in favour of gay rights. "There are gay people among us, who live the same way as we do and who also want to love freely," he said.

The country joined the European Union in 2004. New laws to legalise same-sex marriage are at the draft stage. The Prime Minister said he would support the legislation and added that the whole country should join in the debate over gay rights.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-5037.html

[BlooInBloo]

1. Soooo not Poland.

[Bluebear]

2. You got THAT right. nt

[LeftyMom]

3. Yay!

:woohoo:

[NMMNG]

4. Bravo!

:applause:

[NMMNG]

5. Bravo!

:applause:

[mitchtv]

6. They say, that even in the darkest Stalinist days

Budapest had a lively Gay life.

[xchrom]

7. i want to join the Not Poland chorus!!! yay!!!

:applause: :woohoo: :applause:

[LeftishBrit]

8. Good for Mr. Gyurcsány!

A sign of real progress there. As others have said, a complete contrast to the rulers of Poland.

[gollygee]

9. So much better than their neighbors

and what a BEAUTIFUL scene in that photo. It makes me want to take a trip there.

[DutchLiberal]

10. Whereas in our country, where the world's first gay marriage was introduced in 2000,

our prime-minister told the prime-minister of Indonesia that he voted against it when he was still a representative in the 'House'. :(