The Polish ernment’s shameful cisn to prevent a gay official om visg a part of the untry is a stgg remr of how much the populist Law and Jtice (PiS) lg party’s polici have impacted the rights of LGBT people.
Contents:
- EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS
- POLAND’S POPULISTS PICK A NEW TOP ENEMY: GAY PEOPLE
- GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS
* poland on gay rights *
“I will go to an ‘LGBT-ee zone’ Poland, ’” said Clément Bene, French Secretary of State for European Affairs, a December terview which he also publicly me out as a gay man. Kraśnik is one of almost 100 regns and municipali Poland that have endorsed discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people by clarg themselv “LGBT-iology ee” or adoptg “charters” that promote an exclively heterosexual mol of fai. The Polish ernment’s shameful cisn to prevent a gay official om visg a part of the untry, one spects at least part bee of his sexual orientatn, is a stgg remr of how much the populist Law and Jtice (PiS) lg party’s polici have impacted the rights of LGBT people.
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 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.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
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 on gay rights *
But now their numbers are beg add to by gay people fleeg an creasgly hostile environment 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 is hard to know how many gay people there are Poland, or how many are leavg. And sce they are unable to form civil unns, gay upl are practilly visible official terms.
”But anecdotally, pecially wh the untry’s well-ted gay urban muni, there are many stori of young L.
THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS
For 30 days, begng January 17, European Unn missners received daily Twter notifitns lkg to personal stori of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) Pol who have been harmed by the so-lled “LGBT Iology Free Zon” or anti-LGBT “Fay Charters” nearly 100 Polish regns, towns, and ci. * poland on gay rights *
”“When I found out gay marriage Spa had been legal sce 2005, knocked me off my feet, ” he said. ”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 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. It cled to ment on hate speech employed by prits, and the accatn that they were ntributg to the general terratn of the safety of gay people Jedraszewski, Poland’s archbishop, has scribed L.
POLAND’S POPULISTS PICK A NEW TOP ENEMY: GAY PEOPLE
Tensns are risg after Jamai refed to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat. * poland on gay rights *
Neher the ernment nor the print rpond to requts for April 2019 Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the chairman of the Law and Jtice party and Poland’s facto lear, lled homosexualy a “threat to Polish inty, to our natn, to s existence, and th to the Polish state.
GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
”Tcks fund by ultranservative anizatns have roamed the untry, blarg slogans om speakers accg gay people of pedophilia. There have been creasg s of vlence durg pri march, and agast one cint a village southern Poland, a young gay man was harassed by neighbors hurlg homophobic abe at him, and one tried to poison his dog.
In March 2021, another gay man was verbally attacked and then stabbed for holdg hands wh his partner a gay person Poland, Mr. Iology, ” makg gay Pol feel unwele their own legal stat of L. In a bid to get re-elected last year, Print Andrzej Duda signed a draft law that would amend the Constutn to ban adoptns by gay Ms.