Hungary levies fine over sale of book about 'rainbow families'
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary has fined the distributor of a children's book about same-sex 'rainbow families' under a law that bans unfair trade practices, a move described by its U.S. author as a "direct attack on freedom of information and the freedom to publish".
The levying of the fine comes just before a new law - condemned by the European Union - is due to come into force on Thursday tightening a ban on disseminating content in Hungarian schools deemed to promote homosexuality and gender reassignment.
A local government official said the distributor had misled customers because the book, which features a boy with two mothers, was placed in shops among other children's books without adequate signposting about its "different" content.
The book is a Hungarian translation of "Early One Morning" by U.S. science fiction and fantasy writer Lawrence Schimel, which shows the everyday lives of two families from the perspective of children.
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