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Olly Alexander Spoke Up for LGBTQ+ Adoption at MTV EMAs

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European Music Awards in Budapest, Hungary over the weekend, a controversial choice of locale because the country’s LGBTQ+ population is facing an attack on their rights under the leadership of Prime Minister Victor Orbán.

In December 2020, Budapest’s government voted through a ban on same-sex couples adopting children and, more recently, passed another law that prohibits the depiction of the lives of LGBTQ+ people under 18 (the latter of which led the European Commission to launch legal action).

This was the backdrop to the entertainment awards ceremony, and out actor and Years & Years singer Olly Alexander wasn’t going to let it go unnoticed.

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