A Polish gay uple travelled to the Vatin to unfurl a huge Pri flag emblazoned wh the word "help" ont of Pope Francis.
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Dozens of Polish towns have clared themselv ee of "LGBT iology". It means difficult choic for gay people livg them. * poland gay flag *
28, 2020When Print Andrzej Duda of Poland was sworn on Thursday for a send term office after a bterly divisive mpaign which he rallied support by targetg homosexualy as a threat to the natn, he looked out over the floor of Parliament to fd a sea of was not a celebratn. Duda spoke, and they lifted pi of the Constutn above their words were Radwanski/Agence France-Prse — Getty ImagThe rabow flag, which first emerged as a symbol of solidary for gay rights activists the Uned Stat the late 1970s, has bee a touchstone the culture wars that have left Poland more eply divid than perhaps any pot sce the end of Communist Party le while there was speculatn that the ernment would soften s rhetoric after Mr. Muny, but also a rejectn of what they view as a ernment-led mpaign of tolerance, hatred and when gay rights activists seized on the announcement by the European Unn that was blockg funds, the flag was their weapon of Pempel/RtersThey published a manifto lled “Stop the Nonsense, ” clarg that was time to fight discrimatn.
As long as the last homophobic livery van don’t disappear om our streets, this is our maniftatn of otherns — this rabow. ”The mentn of the vans refers to a mon sight Polish ci: tcks ftooned wh homophobic imagery that blare msag om loudspeakers accg gay people of all sorts of vile crim, cludg activists then posted pictur on social media showg rabow flags hangg om important Warsaw monuments and pk masks strapped on the fac on some of the statu.
POLISH GAY UPLE TRAVEL TO THE VATIN TO UNFURL A GIANT PRI FLAG ONT OF POPE FRANCIS, BEGGG FOR ‘HELP’
The largt gay pri para central Europe took place aga Warsaw for the first time two years after a panmic-duced break — and amid a backlash Poland and Hungary agast LGBT rights. * poland gay flag *
Jtyna Nakielska, who reprents the Polish group Campaign Agast Homophobia, said the arrts were meant to serve as a public spectacle. Policians' hostily to gay rights has bee a flashpot, ptg the relig right agast more liberal-md Pol. And gay people livg the areas are faced wh a choice: emigrate, keep their heads down - or fight back.
It crimalised homosexualy 1932, s before most European untri.
But he is agast what he scrib as "aggrsive iology promotg homosexualy". The stggle for gay rights is a foreign ncept imported om the US and Wtern Europe, he adds, and threatens the tradnal heterosexual Polish fay. Fd out moreWh state-sanctned homophobia and a largely hostile media, Polish gay people risk beg phed back to the closet, pecially small towns.
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. * poland gay flag *
Image ptn, Bart Staszewski SwidnikWhen I arrive on a Saturday morng, half a dozen gay activists are the ma square handg out leaflets, "love is love" stickers and iced doughnuts wh multi-loured sprkl. Their spokman, Bart Staszewski, has anised what he lled a queer tour of Poland's east to show people that gay people are "normal cizens" adds: "We are the rabow myth-bters.
"Swidnik ee of rabow propaganda, " they yell, tryg to drown out the sound of the breezy pop mic g om the speakers of the gay rights activists. And that's what the gays are tryg to do.