This is an eyewitness report from the NowPublic member jigo who was on the scene.
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Scandal over Hungarian Gay Pride
On Saturday (05.09.09) was the annual gay pride in the Hungarian capital.
Nearly thousand of gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender people gathered on the streets of Budapest, to show: Yes, we are here, and we have the same rights like anyone else..
But..
4 years ago national radicalism strengthen in our country. Racists and radicals are more offensive then earlier.300 hundreds of protesters has attacked the pride, the police officers and the medical support too who wanted to protect the participants.These protesters crowed the typical frames: “Fuck You Faggots” etc... And after the pride, they beat a woman who wore the official T-shirt of the Gay Pride '09.
In this year, we got the right to some kind of gay marriage, but it's just a law, nothing else, just some words wrote on a paper. How am I get married with my boyfriend if on the streets anyone can attack us because we are gay.
Nazis are here. Again. Scared jews, gays, and other minorities. What should we do, if our Parliament cannot do anything. We hope a better future in the heart of Europe, as a member of EU. But it seems it will be darker then ever.
PS.: National Radicalism strengthen in Europe, after EU Elections in the EP there are many radical parties from Romania, Slovakia, UK, the Netherlands etc.
Europe needs to stop these processes. We had a nazi era. And we do not need another.
jigo
Debrecen, Hungary
Rhonda J Mangus
North Tonawanda, New York, United States
Barry Artiste
Vancouver, Canada
Amy Judd
Vancouver, Canada
mudricky
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Most RecentMost Recommended Comments (16)
at 15:38 on September 6th, 2009
Thank you for this piece
at 15:45 on September 6th, 2009
Sure why NOT! Gays get Hungry too! That reminds me dinner is ready. Good story Jigo, awesome photos too
at 18:13 on September 6th, 2009
Thank you for this report, jigo. Would you mind adding the tag 'sexuality' so it will also appear on NowPublic Sexuality Special News Coverage channel. Thanks!
at 22:09 on September 6th, 2009
Thanks for the comments. I added the tag Rhonda.
at 05:45 on September 7th, 2009
You are very welcome, jigo! And, thank you!
at 09:03 on September 8th, 2009
What if people attack you not because you are gay, but because you are a pervert?
Mind you, in Korea, girls are attacked by angry fans because those girls blogged about their personal experience with their favorite actors.
People attack people for some reasons they don't know, and these reasons you use to decide on what you don't know either. It's the fad nowadays.
at 09:46 on September 8th, 2009
Sorry, but I'm living here, so this is a problem for me and most of us. If i live in Korea then the blogging could be the reason why am i write. I understood what you say, it's sucks but i cannot change the world from Hungary, but i could be a voice of Hungary coz, it's a fact that we are EU members, but actually we have problems too, and I think the world need to know what's happening in Europe. What we afraid from. Everyone talks about US, UK etc. but we are here too: Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Serbie, Turkey, Ukraine Slovenia etc..
Kore, Chine or Venezuela have bigger problems? Maybe. Our problems are big for us too.
at 04:33 on September 10th, 2009
The author seemingly felt that my comment is attributed to the person.
Even in the Philippines, some are influenced to the popularity and controversy of same sex marriage. People here are also divided to that idea brought by those countries you mentioned.
I am not anti-gay, I am anti-perversion. I am also anti-terrorism, anti-violence and anti-false religion. Most of the time we do things out of ignorance or misunderstanding.
Let me just rephrase:
People attack people for some reasons they don't know, and these reasons they use to decide on what they don't know either. It's the fad nowadays. Even straight people do these things since time immemorial.
Exposing those false religious and their leaders is what we should do instead.
It maybe too big for us, but it would be bigger for the future generations.
at 09:34 on September 8th, 2009
and am not pervert. thanks.
at 05:10 on September 10th, 2009
Citizen journalism can educate. So, as you use it to tell the world of your country's problem, which is a problem of all the countries too, I will also use citizen journalism to tell the world that people tend to hate people because of false religions and false teachers.
at 05:05 on September 10th, 2009
you cannot read. it's not about just a gaypride but a historical era the nazi era. and i know that you have no idea what was that in europe. and your tiny minde is as rotten as your comment to my post .
Regards
at 05:27 on September 10th, 2009
It's not about europe, it's the entire world! Do you think it's only your country and europe who have suffered a lot from the Nazi's? Japanese armies went to the Philippines with the same goal as Hitler!
Even if anyone tells me they don't have religion, they still live in a world where false religions in one way or another affect their lives. False religions and false teachers abhor gay people and even others tolerate perversion (not limited to gays, but even to anyone) without even understanding what really God wants for gay people to do. Thus, what is left for the gay people are a sense of belongingness and acceptance that is seemingly being satisfied on things pervert people teach. Pervert teachers are false teachers too.
Why would gays participate in this kind of parade when they know the repercussion of this activity? I know that gays want exposures with a goal to tell people that they are many now and getting their numbers bigger, so "don't you tell us what we wanted to do".
It is a reality that there are people who will get in the way to physically abuse them, or abuse them in every aspect, but they continue to take a chance to voice out what they want.
In as much as gay people wanted to live in democracy, the freedom that they wanted to be legalized is a utopia of pervert people. Freedom is not absolute, even in a democratic country.
What do gays or lesbians really wanted knowing the repurcussions which are not limited to abuses?
The reality is, gay people are people. Being gay doesn't necessarily follows that you have to act manly. You really can't because you are gay, unless you deceive people! But it doesn't follows that because you are gay, you are meant to marry another same gender. There are straight woman and man who can't marry too because of some circumstance. Can you see them parading? Ah, you see them parade because they are for or against divorce.
It so happened that gays are torn with a predicament, they can't get what they want in terms of their definition of another basic unit of society, to have same sex partners and have rights for themselves and their children.
Going to the grassroots, gays fight for equality and acceptance and to be treated similar to straight men and women.
But, due to the false spiritual leaders and ideas that brought to society, they haven't even solved that basic problem, and now they leap to another one, legalization of same sex marriage?
Why don't you parade first, aiming to abolish the legalization of divorce and unnecessary abortion? Ah, because you are overwhelmed with the gay rights fight and haven't thought that you will face the same.
Freedom is not absolute! But I know one freedom that is absolute regardless of gender, race or color, nationality, and the likes.
More importantly, Gay people have the right to know also that God wants all men (human) to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. The truth shall set us free.
I know Nazi's have affected your lives, and don't be another Nazi - insisting on the freedom that is not absolute.
I hope you and your country find the sense of belongingness and acceptance in it's truest sense because God will never fail you if you will go on trying without fail.
I found mine.
A living dog is better than a dead lion biblically speaking.
at 05:28 on September 10th, 2009
this "what God want and who is a false teacher" story is so boring now. i would like to ask you, if this story irritates you, do not read/comment etc...
Yeah. In the World lots of things happend, during some centuries. But am mostly interested in Europe, because this is my homeland. And if you read my post again, you could find out that most of my words about national radicalism, yes am used the pride for an example. If you need i can use that a nazi training camp found in hungary, where both hungarian and german neonazi's learnt to shoot etc...
And would like to tell you that the UN in 1990 cleard homosexuality from the list of illnesses. We are a minority as we call sexual minority..
at 05:57 on September 10th, 2009
Do my comments say homosexuality is an illness? I am sorry if you think that's what they connote.
I am gay also. My country suffered to the hands of Nazi's through the Japanese armies and they were not merciful that time especially to gays.
When science says it is not illness, does it becomes a basis to allow or legalize same sex marriage?
Again, Freedom is not absolute. And anyone who wanted freedom especially in a democratic country should also take into consideration the rights of others.
Why not start from the root of the problem? To be accepted and to have a sense of belongingness can also be attained by helping people in shifting their paradigm about gays. Helping them to understand what gays are in the perspective that God, who is Love, created them also, as He has created man and woman - because gay males are also man, gay females are also woman.
Same sex marriage may not be a problem for some today, but in the future, since perversion is one of its roots, divorce may also arise. And another generation of innocent children are at risk.
But one cannot help one without having an open mind, biblical speaking. Without knowing the God that cannot lie, we can't do anything good for all.
God bless.
at 05:53 on September 10th, 2009
i know that freedom is not absolute, and never will be. But as some countries can accept, and can be tolerant, why the old continent cannot? (it's a lie, some countries accepted here too like France, Spain)
I know the local answer: The counries in Central/Eastern Europe are post-communist republics. We just started to talk about things what was taboo 20 and more years ago.
I'm not religious, i lost my faith in the church, when the eastern catholic church said gay people are devils and cannot have the right to live.
Am not a supporter of this pride in Hungary, because it's not what it must to be: a pride and day of remembrance for those who killed under the nazi and the communist era. But this was the way, that i could write about the "new" way of europe. (not just Hungary)
at 06:37 on September 10th, 2009
Acceptance of other countries doesn't solve the real problem, which is perversion. Because even if you felt accepted and gained a sense of belongingness to a group, you will still suffer perversion even if same sex marriage will be legalized. You care for a son or daughter, but you wanted same sex marriage, when you just analyze it, if you really wanted children, you can have it with your opposite sex. But yes, I have to admit that being gay or a homosexual, our preference is our same gender.
If you really wanted to be accepted and to have a sense of belongingness, you can have it with your same gender, but do you still need to resort to marriage and sex? Acceptance and sense of belongingness is lacking because people are not taught of the truth, that gays will go to heaven depending on the things they done, depending on how they learned about the true teachings of God, depending on how it is availble to them, and how they follow them; same as how straight men and women's need to obey to God.
All people will be judged according to their deeds, regardless of sexual orientation. Sexual orientation can be a preferance, but it's up to you how you'll act on your urges. God knows what's in our hearts and how we acted on our urges. I know that it's hard for you to understand now, but what I want you to know is, God is love and He cannot lie. He promised Jesus Christ as a saviour for our sin - He sent His Son, who died for us. He acted on His promise.
And God has another promise, a gift of everlasting life for those who will work out their salvation to the very end.
If you lost your faith in the church, when the eastern catholic church said gay people are devils and cannot have the right to live, who can blame you? Those churches are false churches! You cannot see the God, who is Love, from their works.
Yes, there are unnecessary deaths because of an idea brought about by hate from the false churches. But it doesn't necessarily follows that there isn't a true Church.
The Holy Bible doesn't teach: gay people are devils and cannot have the right to live! It is the Roman Catholic Church or other false religion, but not the Church of God written by St. Paul in the Holy Bible.
I hope you can have a change of heart and mind about faith and Christianity. Faith comes from hearing. Hearing what? Hearing is by the word of God, not the word of the Catholic Church or false teachers.
If you want, I have some of articles written by our Presiding Minister referring to the Holy Bible. You can read it by clicking this: Can a Homosexual Make it to Heaven?
I hope and pray that as you lost your faith from a false church and its false teachings, God will lead you to the true gospel of Jesus Christ, the son of the Living God. Please continue to seek for the Kingdom of God without falter.