The Hungarian bookseller was penalised under legislation restricting LGBT literature for under-18s.

Hungarian authorities have fined a bookseller for selling a British graphic novel without closed wrapping - saying it breached a controversial law on LGBT literature for under-18s.

The Lira Kiskereskedelmi Kft retailer was fined 12m forints (£27,400) for selling a Heartstopper book without wrapping it in plastic foil. Officials said the book depicted homosexuality and was sold to minors. The love story, about two teenage boys, has been made into a Netflix series.

  • Meldrik@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    201·
    1 year ago

    Do these people actually believe kids will turn gay if they read about homosexuality? 😂

    • ZILtoid1991@kbin.social
      12·
      1 year ago

      That’s just their excuse, until they get outed for lying, then they move the goalpost to “parents’ rights”. Their real reasons are:

      1. cruelty and hatred.
      2. disgust.
      3. their ideology is losing ground, especially due to "exposure therapy. So what if they made it harder to access, all while labelling such acts as “harmful to minors”?
    • froggers@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Maybe, maybe not. But at the end of the day it doesn’t matter, the outcome is still the same. Hungary is a failed country where the ruling party steals as much as it’s possible, while everything, healthcare, education, infrastructure, etc. is falling apart.

      Besides they are “conservatives” (read reactionaries), so they will always need to have some enemies that they can use, to distract the sheepish population from the real problems. Not that their voters actually care about their own well-being either, they just want to own the libz (read the EU, Brussels, the actual libz, the left, the Jews, the gays, and the list could go on and on.) and live in constant fear.