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# Queer Hungarian children’s book ordered to print disclaimers
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/queer-hungarian-childrens-book-ordered-to-print-disclaimers/
- Published: 2021-01-22T10:31:15.000Z
- Updated: 2021-01-21T11:48:46.000Z
- Description: The publishers of Hungarian children’s book, A Fairy Tale for Everyone, has been ordered by authorities to add a printed disclaimer to highlight its ‘controversial content’.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: Arts, Books, News, Politics, Queer Corner, Hungary, LGBTQ, queer, Viktor Orban

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The publishers of Hungarian children’s book, *Meseorszag mindenkie* or A   *Fairy Tale for Everyone*, which reimagines traditional fairy tales with characters from diverse backgrounds, has been ordered by authorities to add a printed disclaimer to highlight its ‘controversial content’. Although the majority of stories in the book do not explicitly mention LGBTQ+ equality, the Hungarian government argued it portrays *“behaviour inconsistent with traditional gender roles”*, and therefore legally requires a disclaimer for it to remain on shelves.

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According to the[ **Guardian**](https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/hungary-orders-lgbt-publisher-to-print-disclaimers-on-childrens-book/ar-BB1cVKdB?ref=scenemag.co.uk), the authors said the book intends to ‘teach children to be respectful of people of all backgrounds’, but the government labelled it LGBTQ+ ‘propaganda’. The government office released a statement saying: *“The book is sold as a fairytale, called so on its cover and designed accordingly, but it hides the fact that it depicts behaviour inconsistent with traditional gender roles.”* The order extends to other books published by **Labrisz**, an association for LBT women, which contain queer themes.

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Prime minister Viktor Orban condemned the book for its LGBTQ+ content

**Viktor Orban**, the anti-LGBTQ+ prime minister of **Hungary**, [openly condemned](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/hungarian-prime-minister-attacks-lgbtq-inclusive-childrens-book/) the book last year, saying: *“Hungary is a patient, tolerant country as regards \[to\] homosexuality. But there is a red line that cannot be crossed, and this is how I would sum up my opinion: Leave our children alone.”* The deputy leader of Hungary’s far-right **Mi Hazank** party also referred to it as *“homosexual propaganda”.*