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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Signifint progrs has been difficult, sce Poland has been facg a le-of-law crisis gog back to at least 2017, when the right-wg Law and Jtice, or PiS party began spreadg s fluence on key bodi such as the Constutnal crisis the judiciary ns so ep that the EU iated Article 7 proceedgs agast Poland, which spend certa rights for member stat if they are emed to persistently be breach of the EU’s fundamental European Commissn lnched legal proceedgs agast Poland at the European Court of Jtice (ECJ), a se known as Commissn v Poland, and the ECJ orred Poland to spend the laws that terfere wh the pennce of the ignored the the untry’s Human Rights Ombudsman, Marc Wiącek, has cid to tackle both the homophobic rolutns and the falterg legal system at the same Office of the Ombudsman, while formally an stutn fanced by the ernment, exists many untri as an pennt one-man state body wh the mandate to lnch quiri to vlatns of human rights perpetrated by any stutn or body the his electn was marred by difficulty, wh PiS blockg the opposn-backed ndidate for 10 months. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTAn 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.Cred...Lena Mucha for The New York TimFor months, ernment misters spewed vic rhetoric about gay people. Tcks blasted anti-gay hate msag om loudspeakers on the streets of Poland’s ci.Fally fed up wh an creasgly hostile environment for gay people Poland unr the erng Law and Jtice party, Marta Malachowska, a 31-year-old who works social media, cid to move to Berl wh her girliend December.“Last year the suatn beme too much for me,” Ms.
But now their numbers are beg add to by gay people fleeg an creasgly hostile environment Poland.ImageCred...Anna Limowicz for The New York TimAcrdg to a 2020 survey by ILGA-Europe, an ternatnal gay rights anizatn, Poland now ranks as the most homophobic untry the European Unn. Activists say that vlence agast gay people Poland surged last year, and clud s of physil vlence, sults and the stctn of property.It is hard to know how many gay people there are Poland, or how many are leavg. “If there are no statistics, there is no problem.”But anecdotally, pecially wh the untry’s well-ted gay urban muni, there are many stori of young L.G.B.T.Q.
Profsnals emigratg.Ptr Grabarczyk, a 31-year-old journalist, left Poland for Barcelona wh his boyiend last July, attracted by Spa’s more liberal way of life.Origally om a small town northern Poland, he scribed his childhood as one of “plete lonels and alienatn — the ter was my only pe.”“When I found out gay marriage Spa had been legal sce 2005, knocked me off my feet,” he said. “We probably saw each other the stairse, said hello.”He said he received many msag om people across Poland, “who would like to leave for the same reasons as , but nnot bee of money, fay, or their reer choic.”Homosexualy has long been taboo Poland, where the Roman Catholic Church, which plays a proment role the untry’s social and polil life, has worked hand hand wh the ernment to promote a nservative way of life.The church, which is particularly powerful ral areas, has adopted an actively hostile attu toward gay people. Dehnel, the wrer who moved to Berl last year, said was “the drivg force of hate” toward the gay muny.Rpondg to a requt for ment, the Catholic Church poted to an official document outlg s posn, statg that homosexual “clatns” did not nstute “moral guilt,” but homosexual acts did.