MTV: Europe Music Awards to counter Hungary's anti-gay regulations

MTV: Europe Music Awards to counter Hungary's anti-gay regulations

LOS ANGELES-- The MTV Europe Music Honors will be held Nov. 14 in Hungary, the network claimed Tuesday, declaring as well as defending the location despite the nation's current flow of regulations widely condemned as anti-LGBTQ.

The ceremony is a possibility to make a stand for gay and also trans civil liberties worldwide in the main European country that has actually moved to cut them, claimed Chris McCarthy, president and CEO of MTV Amusement Group Worldwide.

\" We're expecting using the occasion to magnify our voices and also stand in solidarity with our LGBTQ siblings,\" McCarthy said in an interview with The Associated Press.

\" We've made it extremely clear and also we have initially ... we do not allow editorial input as it relates to the artists\" as well as the material we produce, he stated. \"That's constantly a problem regardless of whatever nation we enter into.\"

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's conservative ruling celebration presented the procedure that on its face was aimed at combating pedophilia. Modifications ban the representation of any kind of alignment besides heterosexual, together with gender change details in college sex education programs, or in movies and also promotions focused on any individual under 18.

Human rights teams strongly knocked the procedure come on June, stating it incorrectly connects gays with pedophilia and also is planned as a a device that can be utilized to stigmatize as well as bug residents due to their sexual orientation and sex identity. A majority of European Union leaders said it breaks the EU's values which discrimination need to not be tolerated in the 27-nation bloc.

In 2020, Hungarian lawmakers approved legislation banning the lawful recognition of transgender residents.

MTV, which made an offer 2 years ago to hold the program in the country's resources, Budapest, planned to release a prolonged memo to staffers in obvious anticipation of possible objection of its decision.

\" This may shock any person that recognizes that in June of this year, Hungary passed anti-LGBTQ regulation prohibiting tv material featuring gay individuals during the day and in primetime,\" permitting it just to run overnight, McCarthy stated in the memo.

McCarthy stated his prompt as well as individual response to the law, as a gay man, was to relocate the event to another nation. However after getting in touch with within MTV as well as with LGBTQ advocates internationally, including in Hungary, the choice \"was extremely clear to us.\"

\" Instead, we must move forward, making use of the program as a chance to stand in solidarity with the LGBTQ area in Hungary and worldwide as we continue to fight for equal rights for all,\" he stated in the memo.

MTV's pre-emptive outreach comes in the middle of backlash by some Netflix staffers to the streaming service's handling of a Dave Chappelle stand-up unique, \"The Closer,\" which includes bad remarks about trans individuals. Netflix has decreased to eliminate the program.

As a gay child in a Pennsylvania steel mill community in the 1990s, McCarthy stated he really felt separated and alone until he saw LGBTQ characters on television, including Pedro Zamora on MTV's \"The Real World.\"

\" I began to think, 'this may be okay,'\" he told the AP, as well as said it's alarming to envision a young person robbed of the exact same possibility due to Hungary's television limitations.

The Europe Music Honors, referred to as the EMAs for short, will honor young LGBTQ activists with MTV's Generation Adjustment Award, to be given up partnership with the activist team Full blast to amplify its around the world advocate equality, McCarthy stated.

Waging the EMAs in Hungary is \"absolutely the appropriate choice,\" provided the country's \"concerted onslaught\" on LGBTQ legal rights and also scapegoating of minorities, said Matt Beard, executive supervisor of Full blast.

Such exposure \"provides fuel to LGBT-plus neighborhoods staying in Hungary an unbelievably priceless feeling of global uniformity that comes from a huge global media occasion like the EMAs,\" Beard said.

In a September interview with the AP, Hungarian Foreign Preacher Peter Szijjarto said the brand-new legislation is intended to shield kids from pedophiles and \"homosexual propaganda.\" An EU decision to postpone billions in economic recovery funds set aside for his nation totaled up to \"blackmail,\" he said.

The MTV EMAs were released in 1994 with an event in Berlin held by Tom Jones. The awards have actually considering that hopscotched amongst countries, consisting of France, England, Sweden, Spain, Italy as well as the Netherlands.

The host, nominees, and also performers for this year's ceremony have yet to be introduced. The 2020 occasion was held essentially due to the pandemic.

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