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Munich wants rainbow-colored stadium for game with Hungary

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Hungary may play its final group game at the European Championship in a stadium lit up in rainbow colors.
Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter said Sunday …

Hungary may play its final group game at the European Championship in a stadium lit up in rainbow colors. Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter said Sunday he was going to write to UEFA to ask for permission for Germany’s stadium to be lit up with the colors as a sign against homophobia and intolerance when the team plays Hungary on Wednesday. « This is an important sign of tolerance and equality, » Reiter told news agency dpa. Munich’s city council had already called for the stadium to be lit in rainbow colors for the final Euro 2020 group game to protest a law passed by Hungarian lawmakers on Tuesday that prohibits sharing with minors any content portraying homosexuality or sex reassignment. The law has been denounced as anti-LGBT discrimination by human rights groups.

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