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An employee of a bookstore wraps a book featuring LGBTQ+ content in closed packaging to comply with a contentious law on homosexuality in media, on Wednesday, July 26, 2023 in Budapest, Hungary. Booksellers in Hungary must decide whether to comply with a law requiring books that depict homosexuality to be placed in closed packaging on their shelves. Some bookstores have already received hefty fines from the right-wing government for failing to do so, while others have opted to abide by the legislation, despite their opposition to it. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)

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To wrap, or not to wrap? Hungarian bookstores face fines over closed packaging for LGBTQ+ books
By BELA SZANDELSZKY - Associated Press
Sat,07/29/23-1:05AM , 264 Reads
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — In a snug, wood-paneled Jewish bookstore in Hungary's capital, Eva Redai carefully climbed the rungs of a ladder to arrange titles on the shelves. Among the books were volumes bound in plastic wrapping — titles containing LGBTQ+ content that the country's right-wing government has deemed unsuitable for minors under 18.
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