Politicians of all stripes have also weighed in on the issue. It comes after huge demonstrations in front of the Hungarian Parliament building over the new law earlier this month. In the meantime, Ákos expects to see a good turnout at this year’s Budapest Pride. The fear is the same will happen this time, and Szimpozion Egyesület is likely to boycott the vote. But it was still hailed as a victory by the government. In the 2016 migration referendum, a widespread boycott left the result without the necessary 50% quota. It is set to include five politically-charged questions, one of which is: “Do you support that minors may be shown without restrictions media content of a sexual nature capable of influencing their development?”.
Sometimes in the countryside, I felt quite alone being gay. In the Bible Jesus often talks about people who aren’t accepted in their societies. “I didn’t feel God didn’t love me actually, it felt like the opposite. “I accepted myself very quickly,” he said.
But for Ákos, who accepted at the age of 14 that he was gay, this did not compute. Back then, he said, homosexuality was never discussed: “It would have been strange, like saying you were from Mars.”īoys at his school would drop homophobic slurs, and the local Catholic priest occasionally opined on the “sin” of practising homosexuality. Ákos Modolo grew up in a small town in eastern Hungary, close to the Romanian border.
Ákos Modolo was outed to his grandparents after appearing on TV at Budapest Pride Kati Holland