SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Protesters rallied outside Bulgaria's parliament on Thursday to denounce a controversial legal amendment adopted the day before that bans talk of LGBTQ+ and so-called non-traditional sexual choices in schools.
Associated PressSOFIA, Bulgaria — Protesters rallied outside Bulgaria's parliament on Thursday to denounce a controversial legal amendment adopted the day before that bans talk of LGBTQ+ and so-called non-traditional sexual choices in schools.
Waving the rainbow flag, the protesters chanted slogans including"Bulgaria is no Russia" and"Silence means death" as police officers guarded the rally. No violence was reported. In a separate vote Wednesday, lawmakers also approved a law defining"non-traditional sexual orientation" as one that is"different from the generally accepted and established notions in Bulgarian legal tradition of emotional, romantic, sexual or sensual attraction between persons of the opposite sex".
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