Cy lawmakers elect Berl's first openly gay mayor, bolsterg the cy's crentials as one of the world's gay pals, a polil shift that also uld open the way for the former East German munists to enter the ernment.
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- A GAY MAYOR POLAND? NO BIG DEAL
- A GAY MAYOR POLAND? NO BIG DEAL
- BERL ELECTS GAY MAYOR
- GAY BERL: LGBTIQ+ GUI FOR BERL
A GAY MAYOR POLAND? NO BIG DEAL
The victory of a gay ndidate amounts to a sea change nservative Poland, where the Catholic Church wields enormo polil power. * gay berlin mayor *
2, 2014WARSAW — In the end, the fact that Robert Biedron is one of Poland’s most proment gay-rights activists seemed to play almost no role his electn as the new mayor of Slupsk, a nservative cy of 97, 000 near the Pomeranian ast.
“There is a lot of nservatism and homophobia and prejudice.
A GAY MAYOR POLAND? NO BIG DEAL
The victory of a gay ndidate amounts to a sea change nservative Poland, where the Catholic Church wields enormo polil power. * gay berlin mayor *
Biedron, 38, was the untry’s first openly gay member of Parliament and is now s send openly gay mayor. He ns a relatively ty village of 1, 500 rints and, though not the closet, was not as openly gay his muny as Mr. “Of urse they knew I am gay, bee everyone Poland knows that I’m gay, ” Mr.
BERL ELECTS GAY MAYOR
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People, ” said Agata Chaber, print of the Campaign Agast Homophobia, referrg to lbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenred people.
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”Still, there are no laws Poland verg “even the most basic thgs” for gay cizens, Mr. “It shows you nnot play the homophobic gam anymore, ” he said.
8, 2014: An article on Wednday about the electn of a Polish gay rights activist, Robert Biedron, as the mayor of a nservative cy near the Pomeranian ast misstated the cy’s name. It was 2003, not last we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 6 of the New York edn wh the headle: A Gay Mayor Poland? BERLIN -- Cy lawmakers elected Berl's first openly gay mayor Saturday, bolsterg the cy's crentials as one of the world's gay pals, a polil shift that also uld open the way for the former East German munists to enter the Wowere, a Social Democrat, tak over on an terim basis after the aln that led the cy for a llapsed amid a bank sndal and mountg shift removed the nservative Christian Democrats, led by outgog Mayor Eberhard Diepgen, who had been the senr partners wh the center-left Social Democrats the aln formed soon after least until new electns this fall, Berl will be n by a aln of the Social Democrats and the Greens party mirrorg the ernment on the natnal level, led by Chancellor Gerhard Schroer.
''Wowere, 47, was a ltle-known polil figure before grabbg natnwi attentn last weekend when he me out as gay at a party nventn before his nomatn. ``I am gay, and that's a good thg, '' he said, later admtg that he ma the statement bee of mors that tabloids were planng a story on his then, he has emphasized terviews that he's a ``polician who's gay, but not a gay polician'' and that he hasn't foced on gay issu.