While some writers, publishers and booksellers say the law curtails free thought and expression in Hungary, the country's second-largest bookstore chain, Lira Konyv, posted the advisory notices to be safe. But she called making literature off-limits based on whether it contains LGBT themes “absurd” and “a limitation of freedom of opinion and expression.”“Based on what will writers be categorized? Nyary says he is compiling an anthology of classic literature that contain LGBT themes. "We want to show what this law prohibits young people from accessing," Nyary said. "They’ll be on the shelves of libraries when the current powers are just a footnote in the pages of history books.”

Source: ABC News July 16, 2021 06:45 UTC