The Hungarian law goes further, making it an offence to "promote or portray" homosexuality or gender reassignment to minors.

This article states "stigmatizing LGBTQI persons constitute a clear breach of their fundamental right to dignity, as provided for in the EU Charter and international law.

[6] Luca Dudits, executive board member of the Háttér Society, the largest and oldest LGBT organisation in Hungary, said this referendum is "another tool of Viktor Orbán's communication campaign."

[5] A joint statement from 10 Hungarian LGBT+ and human rights groups including Budapest Pride and Amnesty International Hungary called for citizens to give invalid answers to the referendum, circling both "yes" and "no" for every question to "help ensure that the government's exclusionary referendum does not reach the validity threshold.

[13] Amnesty International stated that the fines were an attempt "to silence us because our campaign and civil collaboration was successful.