An latn verbal attacks by the Polish ernment, wh the support of the Roman Catholic Church, as well as the threat of physil vlence on the streets of many ci, has triggered an exod of gay people.
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Back 2005, gay rights activists had to fight to march Warsaw. It ranks 27 out of 28 European Unn stat when to equaly and non-discrimatn, acrdg to Rabow Europe, an anizatn lked to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn. Anti-gay attacks are not nsired a hate crime by law.
” Acrdg to the Campaign Agast Homophobia, 12 percent of people who don’t intify as heterosexual are victims of physil vlence Poland, while around nety percent of cints go unreported, acrdg to the 2016 survey.
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Neverthels, “attus towards the LGBTQ muny have e a long way” says Robert Biedron, who beme Poland’s first openly gay and atheistic polician when he me out 2011. He c the risg number of pri monstrators and the fact that he now endur far fewer anti-gay sults om policians and the media.
Several thoand people took part the march that was meant to unter the gay pri march of the prev day. Mirosława Makuchowska, om the Campaign Agast Homophobia, says while such announcements are not legally bdg, they send a “disturbg msage” to the populatn. Biedron, Poland’s first openly gay polician, says PiS are “lookg for a spegoat and are explog people’s sense of secury.
How has Polish media fluenced anti-gay rhetoric? As Biedron puts , “Polish people have long been surround by rmatn sayg that homosexualy is a disease that n e bra damage. ” A 2017 report by the Centre for Rearch on Prejudice of the Universy of Warsaw found that sce PiS entered ernment 2015, Polish populatn’s exposure to hate speech the media, cludg agast gay people, has creased by 25%.