Trump helps inflame anti-LGBTQ+ feeling from Hungary to Romania

Hungarian Nikoletta Bogadi speaks during an interview in Budapest on April 2. Bogadi's life was turned upside down when one of her four children came out as gay and another one as transgender. | AFP-JIJI

by ANI SANDU, GEZA MOLNAR AND PETRA VRABLICOVA

Wires
April 22, 2025

BUDAPEST – Hungarian Nikoletta Bogadi's life was turned upside down when one of her four children came out as gay and another one as transgender.

But with U.S. President Donald Trump's anti-LGBTQ+ push emboldening similar efforts in Europe, she now worries for them even more, wondering if "the genie has been let out of the bottle."

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban — a "good friend" of Trump — has gradually been rolling back LGBTQ+ rights in the name of "child protection" in Hungary for years.