WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A urt Warsaw on Tuday opened proceedgs a famatn se brought by Poland’s most powerful polician, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, agast a journalist who publicly alleg the lear is gay.
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The Equaly Para, Warsaw's gay pri march, has been marchg through Poland's pal cy's streets sce 2001. Bishop Szymon Czekaj, former print of the Internatnal Associatn of Gays and Lbians for Culture Poland (ILGCN-Polska), and other activists. After a show anized one of Warsaw's now-funct gay clubs, a group of iends sprang up wh the ia of brgg a march agast discrimatn to Poland.
Centuri of hard-re Catholicism matched wh provcial attus have nspired to create an atmosphere where homosexualy is still regard as morally rrect by much of the populatn. That said, the lol ernment received a petn wh over 50, 000 signatur mandg the para self be the past both the former prime mister, Jarosław Kaczyński, and his late tw, Print Lech Kaczynski, stirred disntent; the latter by proclaimg homosexualy as ‘unnatural’ and the former for statg homosexuals should be banned om teachg posts.
Harsh sentiments, but not nearly as malignant as the on voiced by LPR polician Wojciech Wierzejski, whose memorable rants reasoned ‘gays should be bludgeoned… they are all paedophil and members of the mafia’ roads to bigotry are beg ma.
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In 2004 Poland had s first gay weddg (not officially regnised), and the followg year Warsaw’s public transport body beme the first pany to officially acknowledge homosexual relatnships by givg gay employe and their partners the right to ee transport. Although Warsaw, as yet, offers no natural centre for the gay muny this n’t be taken as a sign of somethg more sister - even the straight scene stggl to boast any area that n be regard as a te nightlife hub such as Barcelona’s Las public monstratns of affectn are at bt tolerated, at worst dangero, the cy offers numero gay iendly venu; whether they be the trendy Między Nami fé (ul. For gays Poland the road ahead remas a long one, but for a untry that still listed homosexualy as a disease up until 1991 the natn has already started utly edgg forward.
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