Travel Safety Report: 20 Worst Plac For Gay Travelers In 2021

Contents:

• IS POLAND GAY-IENDLY? - POLAND FOM
• GAY POLAND TRAVEL GUI
• WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE GAY … POLAND?
• GUI TO GAY FRIENDLY HOTELS GDANSK POLAND (2023 UPDATED)
• GUI TO GAY FRIENDLY HOTELS WARSAW POLAND (2023 UPDATED)
• TRAVEL SAFETY REPORT: 20 WORST PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2021
• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS POLAND

IS POLAND GAY-IENDLY? - POLAND FOM

The Polish gay and lbian scene is fairly discreet; Warsaw and Kraków are the bt plac to fd bars, clubs and gay-iendly acmodatn, and Sopot is noted as gay-iendly pared to the rt of Poland. Although 's not pletely hostile, I would suggt not beg openly gay to avoid any nflicts, if you were to be out you should expect people lookg at you and actg a b weird around you, s a betiful untry wh many wounrs but the populatn is generally nservative.

Views on homosexualy are evolvg  Poland, wh greater acceptance the ci but still strong opposn nservative circl. The island Mederranean natn is known for s iendly lols, betiful beach and vibrant gay scene after a ncerted effort to shift attus a untry domated by Roman Catholic were the bt LGBTQ+ statns cid? Belgium was the send untry the world to legalise same-sex marriage and elected their first openly gay Prime Mister, El Di Rupo, 2011.

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Earlier this year France passed a law banng so-lled gay nversn therapy, and is wily regard as progrsive on LGBTQ+ rights. However, public attus lag behd legislatn wh 84 per cent of the public tellg the World Valu Survey they didn’t thk homosexualy was jtifiable between 2017 - remag Nordic untri, already famo for their high happs rankgs, are also high-ranked for their progrsive polics.

However, the Rsian ernment has already drawn ternatnal ire for s ‘Gay Propaganda law’ which, siarly to now-repealed Sectn 28 the UK, bans discsg homosexualy Pri paras are banned Rsia’s major ci and there are also reports of ‘gay-hunters’ attackg gay men the street.

All Pri week activi were banned Istanbul, the untry's largt cy, this has also been claimed that the Turkish ernment told Netflix to remove a gay character om one of their scripts or risk losg their license for filmg the untry. Robert Biedron, Poland’s first openly gay MP, tak the oath of office 2011 next to Poland’s first trans puty, Anna Grodzka. It was 2007, years before Vladimir Put supposedly veloped a ncern for the fate of Rsia’s children, when the Polish ernment openly discsed stutg s own anti-homosexualy law.

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Edutn Mister Roman Giertych proposed banng the discsn of homosexualy schools, wh school admistrators, teachers, or pupils who disobeyed the directive liable to dismissal, a fe, or even imprisonment. Wh the health mistry tent on creatg a special mtee rponsible for “curg” gays, police pilg a database on gays and the gay muny, and the ombudsman for children preparg a list of jobs unf for homosexuals, thoands of LGBTQ Pol took advantage of their EU cizenship and left for the Uned Kgdom. In 2007, Robert Biedron, who at the time was print of the Campaign Agast Homophobia, known Polish as KPH, said, “It’s impossible for gays to be themselv Poland.

Wng an albe most 40 seats the 460-seat Sejm, the lower hoe of the Polish parliament, Biedron beme the first openly gay MP Poland and Anna Grodzka the send trans MP Europe (after Italy’s Vladi Luxuria). When there is a discsn of gay or trans issu on televisn, a member of an LGBTQ anisatn like KPH or Lambda Warszawa will be ved to participate, but so will a Catholic prit. Warsaw and Krakow each have a small number of gay bars, rangg om regular clubs to ls salubr stutns heavy on darkened rooms.

GUI TO GAY FRIENDLY HOTELS GDANSK POLAND (2023 UPDATED)

Wh the ci, and pecially Warsaw, although is far om easy to be gay, ntrary to Biedron’s claratn of seven years ago, is not impossible. As of 2022, six untri' legal s specifilly prcribe the ath penalty for the "crime" of homosexualy and another five untri allow for the possibily of the ath penalty. LGBT and LGBTQ+ have several addnal variatns, cludg LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIA+, and 2SLGBTQIA+ (Two-spir, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng, tersex, and asexual, wh the + reprentg pansexual, agenr, genr queer, bigenr, genr variant, and pangenr).

Two of the most notable advancements LGBTQI+ rights the US recent s are the legalizatn of gay marriage and the legalizatn of adoptn of children by same-sex upl. Gay marriage legalizatn expand om one state 2004 to all fifty stat 2015 through feral urt lgs, state urt lgs, state legislatn, and direct popular vot.

Acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn's annual report State-Sponsored Homophobia, same-sex nduct was crimalized 67 of the Uned Natns' 193 member stat 2020 and was facto illegal two more. In other untri, homosexualy is technilly legal, but promotn of "nontradnal sexual relatns", whether by anizatns or dividuals, is illegal. Moreover, another five untri have laws which are ls specific the outlawg and sentencg of homosexualy, but which leave the ath penalty available.

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2022's iendlit natn for LGBTQ+ travelers is Canada, the first untry outsi of Europe (and the fourth untry the world) to legalize gay marriage, which did on July 20, 2005. Another of the world's most gay-iendly untri, Swen has legalized both marriage and adoptn for same-sex upl, stalled anti-discrimatn protectns for both genr inty and sexual orientatn, end nstutnal protectns agast discrimatn, and crimalized vlence agast LGBTQ+ people. Portugal beme the sixth European untry and the eighth untry the world to legalize gay marriage on May 17, 2010.

In 2004, the Natnal Assembly approved an amendment to existg anti-discrimatn laws to clu homophobic ments as illegal. Individuals arrted for homosexual nduct are often subjected to addnal mistreatment, om torture and forced anal exams by shady law enforcement officials to oversized sentenc or extend pre-trial rceratn that n last for years. Police officers are lookg for the perpetrators of beatg two homosexual men on the beach Gdansk Sobizewo few weeks ago.

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But this year’s events are takg place at a time when homophobia is on the rise Poland, fueled by hateful ments om the ernment and Roman Catholic Church (RCC) lears. Acrdg to a 2020 survey by ILGA-Europe, a Bssels-based advocy group, Poland ranks as the most homophobic untry of the E.

Those who bully LGBTQ people are embolned by homophobic policians, ” says Bart Staszewski, a Polish director and LGBTQ rights activist. Later, he began trag as a psychologist while workg as a cultural ambassador of Poland to the Internatnal Lbian and Gay Culture Network, a post he held om 2000 to 2006. Some prits have outed the name of a gay person om the pulp and scribed them as a danger to the muny, ” says Niemiec.

The Fah and Rabow Foundatn has been tryg to hold parish and prits to acunt over public homophobic statements. ‘I am now an openly gay Catholic and I stand wh my head high’ The most important aspect of the group’s work, says Pawlik, is lol meetgs for LGBTQ Christians, many of whom “are difficult suatns and eply the closet.

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” It tght him “what the bible really wr about LGBT people and how to terpret , ” he says, “I am now an openly gay Catholic and I stand wh my head high.

The activist says there is also a need Poland for clergy-n pastoral re specifilly for LGBTQ Catholics as an alternative to the pastoral iativ sponsored by the Roman Catholic Church, which, acrdg to her, plac an emphasis on “curg” people om homosexualy. Warsaw and Kraków are the bt plac to fd bars, clubs and gay iendly hotels Gdansk, one of the ma touristic statn Poland. The Premium Double Room is 100$/room per night wh breakfast clud – if g on a honeymoon this is the perfect choice for gay upl.

Where to book onle – Ibis Gdansk Stare Miasto – Gay Friendly Hotels Gdansk – you n fd the bt hotels als Gdansk durg Gdańsk Shakpeare Ftival which is celebrated wh much enthiasm Gdansk on or or and see more reviews on TripAdvisor. The Standard Sue is 200$/room per night wh breakfast clud – if g on a honeymoon this is the perfect choice for gay upl. Where to book onle – PURO Gdańsk Stare Miasto – Gay Friendly Hotels Gdansk – you n fd the bt hotels als Gdansk durg Gdańsk Shakpeare Ftival which is celebrated wh much enthiasm Gdansk on or or and see more reviews on TripAdvisor.

The Junr Sue is 307$/room per night wh breakfast clud – if g on a honeymoon this is the perfect choice for gay upl. Where to book onle – Radisson Blu Hotel Sopot – Gay Friendly Hotels Sopot – you n fd the bt hotels als Gdansk durg Gdańsk Shakpeare Ftival which is celebrated wh much enthiasm Gdansk on or or and see more reviews on TripAdvisor. BERLIN (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - When nservative policians started makg anti-LGBT+ speech on the mpaign trail, Ptr Kalwaryjski, a gay man om wtern Poland, cid was time to pack up and after a 2019 European parliamentary electn, Kalwaryjski and his boyiend moved om the cy of Poznan to Berl - jog a growg number of LGBT+ Pol who have fled homophobia at home by settlg the German pal.

”Poland ranks at the bottom of the 27-member European Unn when to legal protectns for LGBT+ people, acrdg to the ILGA-Europe advocy of lol thori across the untry have issued so-lled “LGBT iology ee” claratns, which have drawn ternatnal nmnatn and the threat of losg accs to regnal EU rights of gay, bisexual and transgenr Pol have e unr creasg prsure sce 2015 when the natnalist Law and Jtice (PiS) party me to power, but for some LGBT+ people, the 2019 electn mpaign was the last straw. “I’m safer here than Poland, ” said Kuncewicz, who moved to Berl October 2019 and works for a social media parture of young, skilled workers like Kuncewicz and Kalwaryjski amid warngs that homophobic polici and discrimatn are g a “bra dra” and enomic loss untri cludg Poland, Hungary and Ukrae.

“When we started to hear the ernment sayg homophobic stuff, that’s when we began to see vlent attus society, ” she told the Thomson Rters ntrast, Berl, “no one r who you live wh, who you love - ’s no one’s bs”, she said. Reported hate crim agast LGBT+ people Poland more than doubled to 150 2019, acrdg to official data, though the te figure is likely far higher due to wispread reluctance to report homophobic attacks.