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Transgender couple wed in Hungary amid LGBT hostility

Transgender couple Tamara Csillag and Elvira Angyal tie the knot in Hungary, which outlawed legal recognition of transgender identity in May.

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Transgender couple wed in Hungary amid LGBT hostility

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  1. Transgender couple wed in Hungary amid LGBT hostility

  2. Elvira Angyal and Tamara Csillag prepare for their wedding at home. In the world of nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, this was special as Orban, increasingly hostile to LGBTQ people, has outlawed legal recognition of transgender identity.

  3. Ironically, that made the wedding possible, as Tamara Csillag was stuck with male documents while Elvira Angyal (pictured) had already completed her transition and had the documents to prove it. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

  4. "Our dream has come true. We are so happy to have received an official seal on our relationship," Angyal said after the ceremony at city hall, holding hands with her new wife. She kissed her and said: "I love you.

  5. Theirs was far from a smooth journey. Both had families as men before coming out to live as women. Of seven children between them, only one, Angyal's son Patrik, was present.

  6. Elvira Angyal prepares for her wedding at home. Rights groups say Orban and his political allies, the small Christian Democratic party KDNP, have targeted the gay community since he won a third term in 2018.

  7. Elvira Angyal and her son Patrik prepare for the wedding at home. The wedding came one day after Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjen renewed homophobic attacks with a proposal to enshrine in the country's constitution a ban on "gender propaganda.

  8. Tamara Csillag prepares for her wedding at home. Csillag said she was confident enough for such legal moves and propaganda not to shake her. "What harms children is what the government does," she said.

  9. Tamara Csillag prepares for her wedding at home in Polgardi. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

  10. Tamara Csillag prepares for her wedding at home. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

  11. Elvira Angyal and Tamara Csillag celebrate their wedding at city hall. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

  12. Elvira Angyal and Tamara Csillag pose for a picture after their wedding. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

  13. Elvira Angyal and Tamara Csillag pose for a picture after their wedding in Polgardi, Hungary, November 6, 2020.

  14. Elvira Angyal and Tamara Csillag hug before their wedding. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

  15. Tamara Csillag hugs her dog in her home in Polgardi, June 10, 2020. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

  16. Elvira Angyal and Tamara Csillag eat lunch in their home. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

  17. Elvira Angyal brushes her wig at home. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

  18. Elvira Angyal does her makeup. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

  19. Elvira Angyal and Tamara Csillag poses for a picture. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

  20. Elvira Angyal puts an earring at home. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

  21. Tamara Csillag feeds her cats. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

  22. Elvira Angyal and Tamara Csillag wait in a pub in Polgardi. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

  23. Elvira Angyal and Tamara Csillag sit outside a pub in Polgardi. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

  24. Tamara Csillag and Elvira Angyal hug in their garden. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

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