@200577:
Any political changes across Europe which might result in a worsening of the rights we have fought so long to gain, is unwelcome, but I think the OP overstates the case with regard to other parts of Europe.
In my own country, England, public sentiment is usually far ahead of the political curve with regard to social issues like gay rights. The haters tend to be the usual neo-Nazi knuckledraggers and so-called Christians, but they are far outnumbered by decent people. The situation is far from perfect, but we are much luckier here than in most other countries - even in Europe. In England, a person's sexuality has become a non issue for the majority of people. I doubt if that is not also the case throughout most of Northern Europe.
What complicates the picture in places like Portugal and Greece, in a way which simply does not happen to the same extent here, is the unchecked power of the churches. They have far more sway in Portugal and Greece than they would ever get here. The main opposition in England (and the wider UK) to issues like gay marriage has come mainly from the Roman Catholic church. Two decades ago, it might have stood a realistic chance of having a major say on such matters as gay marriage, but a number of child sex abuse scandals has left the Catholic Church reeling and any cherished belief that it has moral authority any more, has simply evaporated.
It should also be remembered how right-wing parties and established churches seem to fit so well together in any part of the world you choose to look. Without the support of the Roman Catholic Church, the fascists in Germany and Italy would not have had such a rapid rise to power in the 1930s. Though a major factor was the fear that communism would spread throughout Europe from Russia and wipe out the church's power base, it cannot begin to excuse the church turning its gaze away from the horrors seen right across Europe between 1939 and 1945. I don't doubt it would do so again if it thought supporting right-wing parties would allow it to regain some of the power and authority it has lost.
It's a partially by me sharable analysis 200. Partially because while I don't want to belittle the responsiblities of the church(es) in your/my/our personal fate, in this case you overstimate their role imo. In Germany -which after all was the cradle of Protestantism much more than GB- for instance, the Roman Catholic Church role could be deemed as absolutely ambiguous and, believe it or not,in Italy too (!)…