- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Civil unions (marriage rights)
- Censorship
- ✖ Imprisonment as punishment
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Legal, but restricted for minors
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Hate Crime Protections
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Debrecen is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Debrecen is civil unions (marriage rights).
Censorship of LGBT issues in Debrecen is imprisonment as punishment.
The books containing LGBTQ+ themes must be wrapped with plastics to comply the law.
Films like Harry Potter or Billy Elliot will be banned for under 18s and it will be broadcasted before 10pm.
The law will also limits sex education in schools with no LGBTQ+ education.
According to the Hungarian government, this law is aimed to protect children from pedophilia, since the law makes punishment for pedophilia more extreme, that means LGBTQ+ Content puts into the list with pornography.
By law, books containing LGBTQ+ content cannot be placed within 200 meters of schools or churches. This law has been enforced before.
Right to change legal gender in Debrecen is illegal.
On January 31st 2023, the Constitutional Court of Hungary issued a ruling that will continue to block new applications from transgender people for legal gender recognition.
Gender-affirming care in Debrecen is legal, but restricted for minors.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Debrecen is not legally recognized.
Hate crime protections in Debrecen is sexual orientation and gender identity.
(1) A person who, because of the fact that another person, actually or presumably, belongs to a national, ethnic, racial or religious group or another group of society, in particular because of his disability, gender identity or sexual orientation, displays a conspicuously anti-social conduct that is capable of causing alarm in members of the respective group is guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment for up to three years.
(2) A person who assaults or coerces another person by violence or threat to do, not to do or to tolerate something because he, actually or presumably, belongs to a national, ethnic, racial or religious group or another group of society, in particular because of his disability, gender identity or sexual orientation, shall be punished by imprisonment for one to five years.
(3) The punishment shall be imprisonment for two to eight years if the criminal offence of violence against a member of a community is committed
a) with a weapon,
b) with an instrument capable of causing death,
c) by causing significant harm to interests,
d) by tormenting the aggrieved party,
e) by a group, or
f) in a criminal conspiracy.
(4) A person who commits preparation for violence against a member of a community is guilty of a misdemeanour and shall be punished by imprisonment for up to two years.
LGBT discrimination in Debrecen is illegal in some contexts.
LGBT employment discrimination in Debrecen is sexual orientation only.
LGBT housing discrimination in Debrecen is sexual orientation only.
Same-sex adoption in Debrecen is illegal.
Second parent adoption is available for married and opposite sex cohabiting couples but not for registered or cohabiting same sex partners.
Intersex infant surgery in Debrecen is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Debrecen is legal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Debrecen is legal.
Conversion therapy in Debrecen is not banned.