Open letter from Labrisz to Alice Weidel, President of the German AfD party

Dear Alice Weidel,

 

You are visiting Budapest on 11-12 February to meet Viktor Orbán. Your party, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), is one of Europe's extreme right-wing parties, which is rejected even by the majority of conservative political forces. The leading politicians of the AfD use national socialist rhetoric, relativise the Holocaust and represent a world in which human rights and social diversity do not exist. The AfD would expel from Germany people fleeing war, natural disasters, poverty and authoritarian regimes. The AfD rejects rainbow families, supports Putin and would have Germany exit the European Union. You are the president of this party. Meanwhile, you are openly lesbian, your partner comes from an immigrant background and the two of you are raising two children.

 

With reference to your meeting, Orbán is talking about breaking down walls, while he is building new walls - walls of hatred and exclusion. Orbán is making friends with fascists, dictators, criminals, conmen, mass murderers. Welcome to the club, Alice Weidel! Welcome to a country where lesbians cannot participate in artificial insemination programmes, cannot adopt children, and if they already have children, only one of them can exercise parental rights. Orbán and his homophobic comrades, with their political interests in mind, will no doubt discreetly excuse you for being a lesbian. Orban will certainly not lecture you that you are unfit to bring up children and that you are corrupting your children. And you will discreetly not think of your partner and two children while smiling into the cameras as you shake hands with Orban.

 

Dear Alice Weidel, what message are you sending to Hungarian lesbians with your visit? Here is our message to you: after your visit to Budapest, take a walk with your family in the Tiergarten in Berlin, stop for a few minutes at that big grey concrete block and tell your children that in World War II, women like their mothers were taken away by the Nazis.

 

Labrisz Lesbian Association

Budapest, 11 February 2025