{"id":242,"date":"2019-04-08T14:51:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T12:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4h4n9.ahang.hu\/en\/?p=242"},"modified":"2019-05-03T19:46:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T17:46:29","slug":"the-generation-is-open-for-everybody-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4h4n9.ahang.hu\/en\/campaigns\/the-generation-is-open-for-everybody-again\/2019\/04\/08\/","title":{"rendered":"The Generation is Open for Everybody Again"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Szeged LGBT Community Group has achieved an enormous advocacy success: after a period of 18 months, LGBT groups can return to public community spaces.<\/p>\n
18 months ago the state practically banned LMBTQ organizations from its community spaces.<\/p>\n
New Generation Center Nonprofit Ltd. – a state-owned company run with EU money – operates community spaces in all nineteen counties of Hungary. In principle, these venues are open to anyone during opening hours, including civil society organizations.<\/p>\n
In November 2017, however, the state-owned company decided – on the ground of maintaining political neutrality – that LMBT organizations could no longer organize community meetings or community programs in their community spaces. The decision made at higher levels hit the Szeged LGBT Community Group especially hard because by that time they had established good relations with the leaders of the Szeged community space and regularly organized their programs there.<\/p>\n
Earlier on the New Generation Community Spaces in Szeged and Kecskem\u00e9t had joined the \u201cSafe Space\u201d<\/strong><\/a> campaign by putting out a rainbow-colored sticker, which was scraped off (presumably also by superior order) in both cities a few months later, the day after the ban was instituted.<\/p>\n