Hungary has pulled out of the 2020 Euronvision contest reportedly because it is "too gay".
The country has not given an official reason, but Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has a reputation for being intolerant towards LGBTQ rights.
Earlier this year a member of Hungary's Conservative Party called for a boycott against an advertisment showing a happy same-sex couple, while in May, a speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly compared same-sex marriage to paedophilia.
A source inside public broadcaster MTVA told the Guardian they were "not surprised".
"I welcome the decision, including from a mental health perspective, that Hungary will not take part in the homosexual flotilla that this international song competition has been reduced to," said Andras Bencsik, the editor of a Hungarian pro-government magazine.
Belgian politician and leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, Guy Verhofstadt, posted on Twitter his frustration at the homophobia taking place in Hungary.
"First we had the 'gay-free' zones in Poland, now Hungary pulls out of Eurovision because it's 'too gay'. Even Putin shows more restraint in his homophobia. It's an attack on our European way of life and it must stop."
The 2020 contest will be hosted by Amsterdam.
