The Thomson Reuters Foundation spoke to four people from Hungary’s LGBTQ+ community about the impact of the ban: Andrea Terez Sztraka, LGBTQ+ education charity worker “Many of my homosexual friends are depressed,” said Sztraka, 29, of the Getting to Know LGBT People (GTK) programme, which has run volunteer-led sessions challenging homophobia and transphobia in Hungarian schools since 2000. “They are scared.
They don’t know how they can live their lives and many of those who were planning to have children feel hopeless.” The programme used to receive about 40 invitations a year from schools, reaching up to 1,500 students.