"Too much": EU leaders confront Hungary's Orban over new anti-LGBT law

FILE PHOTO: People attend the "Equality Parade" rally in support of the LGBT community, in Warsaw, Poland June 19, 2021. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union leaders on Thursday confronted their peer, Prime Minister Viktor Orban, over Hungary's new anti-LGBT law, stressing their commitment to defending gay rights and piling pressure on Budapest to step back.

Asked if he would revoke the bill, passed last week to ban the distribution of material in schools deemed to promote homosexuality or gender change, Orban said on arriving to talks among the bloc's 27 national leaders in Brussels: