“For many years, LGBT organisations were careful regarding their public exposure. Prague Pride, also a founding member of the Jsme Fer coalition and whose 10th edition was mostly held online last year due to the COVID-19 restrictions, is undoubtedly the most visible and well-known event meant to challenge that general sentiment of benevolent indifference towards LGBT issues.
“Most Czechs are more comfortable ignoring LGBT people rather than acknowledging their existence,” he noted. Those laws include registered partnerships, which have benefited more than 3,600 gay couples since coming into existence in the Czech Republic in 2006, as well as a 2016 ruling by the Czech Constitutional Court allowing individuals in registered partnerships to adopt.Īccording to Pitonak, who pioneered the academic field of queer geographies in the Czech Republic, this widespread belief among the Czech population that LGBT people are already well served paves the way for the current inertia and general lack of interest. “Most Czechs believe LGBT people already have enough security and that current laws are sufficient.” The average Czech doesn’t see LGBT rights as a daily concern or topic worth discussing,” he explained. “The Czech Republic is highly apathetic towards the issue of sexual minorities. However, according to Michal Pitonak, head of Queer Geography, the scientific arm of Jsme Fer, these promising figures and long history of activism do not necessarily reflect active support among the population today. Homosexuality was decriminalised in 1962, earlier than even in many Western European countries, while pro-LGBT organisations have been flourishing since the early 1990s. With support for same-sex marriage hovering around 60 per cent of the population, the Czech Republic could easily be portrayed as in the avant-garde of the former Eastern Bloc in terms of LGBT acceptance. “The Czech Republic is still stuck in the past,” she said, adding that the chances of any change to the status quo before October’s parliamentary elections are becoming slimmer. Legislators have a duty to vote on any law submitted to them, not sweep it under the carpet.”īlaming a lack of political will from the ruling ANO party despite Prime Minister Andrej Babis’s personal support for the bill, Horakova noted that most of the major Czech political parties remain divided over the issue and would rather keep internal differences at bay. “The bill for the legalisation of same-sex marriage is becoming known as ‘one of the oldest bills’ in parliament. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.“It’s absurd,” Horakova lamented. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are: More information about the RTA Label and compatible services can be found here. Parental tools that are compatible with the RTA label will block access to this site. We use the "Restricted To Adults" (RTA) website label to better enable parental filtering. Protect your children from adult content and block access to this site by using parental controls. PARENTS, PLEASE BE ADVISED: If you are a parent, it is your responsibility to keep any age-restricted content from being displayed to your children or wards. Furthermore, you represent and warrant that you will not allow any minor access to this site or services. This website should only be accessed if you are at least 18 years old or of legal age to view such material in your local jurisdiction, whichever is greater. You are about to enter a website that contains explicit material (pornography).