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Contents:

• GAY POLAND TRAVEL GUI
• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS POLAND
• THIS IS THE MOST GAY-FRIENDLY CY POLAND
• SHOULD GAY PEOPLE BE REFUL WHEN POLAND? IF Y, TO WHAT EXTENT?
• IS POLAND GAY-IENDLY? - POLAND FOM
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS POLAND
• WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE GAY … POLAND?
• IS WARSAW, POLAND A GAY-FRIENDLY TRAVEL DTATN?
• LGBTQ+ KRAKóW | GAY & GAY-FRIENDLY GUI TO KRAKóW
• THE 5 BEST POLAND GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS POLAND
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• GAY KRAKOW

GAY POLAND TRAVEL GUI

Poland is not particularly gay-iendly, and the untry's center-right ernment has recently spoken out agast grantg homosexuals legal rights or even discsg homosexualy the public schools. That said, gays and lbians visg Poland are not likely to enunter overt discrimatn or have trouble bookg rooms. There are active gay populatns both Warsaw and Kraków, and several gay-iendly bars and clubs.

So you n't expect people cheerg by the fact that somebody is homosexual, but that's not a display of hostily. Polish society generaly tolerat the LGBT muny but we're a long way om beg acceptable to be openly gay. Be discrete, generally gay people Poland are accepted as long as one n't tell they are gay.

TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS POLAND

The Polish gay and lbian scene is fairly discreet; Warsaw and Kraków are the bt plac to fd bars, clubs and gay-iendly acmodatn, and Sopot is noted as gay-iendly pared to the rt of Poland. Although 's not pletely hostile, I would suggt not beg openly gay to avoid any nflicts, if you were to be out you should expect people lookg at you and actg a b weird around you, s a betiful untry wh many wounrs but the populatn is generally nservative.

Views on homosexualy are evolvg  Poland, wh greater acceptance the ci but still strong opposn nservative circl.

From private rooms and apartments to LGBTQ-iendly hotels, you have the optn to stay the heart of gay districts as well as other neighborhoods the plac you vis. A loft Soho, a shared room Barcelona or the Castro, a gay-iendly hotel Le Marais or Chelsea, experience misterb&b all gay travel statns! Robert Biedron, Poland’s first openly gay MP, tak the oath of office 2011 next to Poland’s first trans puty, Anna Grodzka.

THIS IS THE MOST GAY-FRIENDLY CY POLAND

It was 2007, years before Vladimir Put supposedly veloped a ncern for the fate of Rsia’s children, when the Polish ernment openly discsed stutg s own anti-homosexualy law. Edutn Mister Roman Giertych proposed banng the discsn of homosexualy schools, wh school admistrators, teachers, or pupils who disobeyed the directive liable to dismissal, a fe, or even imprisonment. The aim, Giertych said, was to “prohib the promotn of homosexualy and other vianc.

That year, Poland was the grip of anti-gay hysteria and a state-sponsored mpaign of LGBTQ persecutn.

Wh the health mistry tent on creatg a special mtee rponsible for “curg” gays, police pilg a database on gays and the gay muny, and the ombudsman for children preparg a list of jobs unf for homosexuals, thoands of LGBTQ Pol took advantage of their EU cizenship and left for the Uned Kgdom.

SHOULD GAY PEOPLE BE REFUL WHEN POLAND? IF Y, TO WHAT EXTENT?

In 2007, Robert Biedron, who at the time was print of the Campaign Agast Homophobia, known Polish as KPH, said, “It’s impossible for gays to be themselv Poland.

Wng an albe most 40 seats the 460-seat Sejm, the lower hoe of the Polish parliament, Biedron beme the first openly gay MP Poland and Anna Grodzka the send trans MP Europe (after Italy’s Vladi Luxuria).

IS POLAND GAY-IENDLY? - POLAND FOM

When there is a discsn of gay or trans issu on televisn, a member of an LGBTQ anisatn like KPH or Lambda Warszawa will be ved to participate, but so will a Catholic prit. “When there is discsn of homosexualy the lsons, is ually to say that homosexualy is bad.

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS POLAND

They also said they would feel unfortable holdg hands the street or kissg except a gay or gay-iendly bar. Warsaw and Krakow each have a small number of gay bars, rangg om regular clubs to ls salubr stutns heavy on darkened rooms.

Wh the ci, and pecially Warsaw, although is far om easy to be gay, ntrary to Biedron’s claratn of seven years ago, is not impossible. But the same nnot be said of the rt of Poland, a untry still wedd to regrsive Catholic dogma on homosexualy. June 14, 2019 March 25, 2021 Beg Gay PolandUnfortunately, Poland isn’t known for beg the iendlit untry towards the gay muny.

WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE GAY … POLAND?

The general nsens is that large ci like Warsaw, is safe to be gay as long as you are somewhat discreet about . On a short trip, I thk might be bt not to tt the lims on what you n get away wh bee if people say, for stance, somethg rogatory passg, you might not unrstand that your safety uld be jeopardy should those slurs late to somethg more the reasons, as far as “gay uple trips” go, Warsaw might not be the bt pick.

However, I DO HAVE TO SAY ONE THING: The gay clubbg scene Warsaw, Poland was unmatched to anythg I’ve seen anywhere else the world that I’ve Nightlife Warsaw, PolandThe Gay Bar: Lodi DodiWhen Je and I wanted to go out, we tried to search for gay bars and clubs onle. We found maybe one or two plac that dared tle themselv “gay, ” on Google Maps Warsaw.

” Lodi Dodi is ually the first (and potentially only) gay bar shown when you search for gay nightlife me show you a photo of the entrance to Lodi Dodi om when we you thought looked closed, so did we. We asked the bartenr about other plac to go for gay nightclubs se some existed but weren’t shown on the map. Word of mouth seemed like the way to go a untry as discreet as kdly remend we also vis TORO Pub (now closed permanently) and Metropolis Gay Club: Metropolis WarszawaMetropolis was the bt gay club I’ve ever vis.

IS WARSAW, POLAND A GAY-FRIENDLY TRAVEL DTATN?

On nversatns wh Je, we both seem to be agreement about beg the greatt gay clubbg vibe we have ever experienced.

All all, we both had the time of our liv dancg wh the group of people who surround the vib om the gay muny at Metropolis Warszawa were so posive, really left such a strong and lastg imprsn on me. I didn’t expect but was possibly the bt sense of muny I have ever felt a gay club.

LGBTQ+ KRAKóW | GAY & GAY-FRIENDLY GUI TO KRAKóW

If you’re lookg for a gay club and ci to go out Warsaw, give Metropolis Warszawa a try. Although 's one of the few untri which homosexualy has never been directly punished by state law, you'll fd few folks of any sexual persuasn who would scribe Poland as 'gay-iendly.

' Centuri of hard-re Catholicism Poland have ensured a nservative society that isn't fortable speakg about sex of any kd, let alone homosexualy, which is roundly nsired 'wrong' and 'unnatural' by most lols. In fact, homosexualy was officially listed as a disease until 1991, before which the munist thori alt wh the 'problem' by nyg that existed PRL Poland; serly, acrdg to the thori, there was not a sgle gay person PL om 1947 to 1989. In the years sce mocracy returned to Poland, policians have been all too eager to go on rerd agast homosexualy, makg all kds of flammatory statements rangg om ignorant to sensive to hateful over the years.

The current nservative lg party, Law & Jtice (PiS), has been particularly forceful s nmnatn of homosexualy recently, attemptg to ame gay rights and the equaly movement as a foreign vasn threateng the very soul of the natn (much like the immigratn crisis before ).

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" Puttg gay rights issu, and thereby the gay muny, directly the crosshairs, Kaczyński's party has gone so far as to anise and promote s own anti-LGBT events unr the guise of 'fay valu', leadg to vlent nflict when the two sis lli, as occured May 2019 Białystock. Nohels, Kraków's primary gay pri event has grown each year and celebrated s 15th anniversary 2019.

Surprisgly, the age of sexual nsent Poland is the same for homo- and heterosexual relatnships - 15. As attus towards the LGBTQ+ muny have slowly improved recent s, so has the untry's gay scene, pecially the major ci.

In terms of queer nightlife, the number of tly queer-first venu Kraków is still que small, and only got smaller the summer of 2019, when Con - Kraków's top gay club of over 18 years - closed down for good. Durg the day, head to Ldo - a straight-iendly gay fe/bar that opens early, or vis Spartak - Kraków's only gay sna (men-only).

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

Although several municipali (particularly south-eastern PL) clared themselv ee of LGBT iology, a urt lg later banned the distributn of the hate stickers, and the outcry they created here Kraków only lead to many gay-iendly lol bs explicly claimg they were plac of tolerance via their own stickers, posters and flags. For those lookg for a fun, safe environment to go out whout alienatg their straight iends, Barakah, Klub Kabaret and Ogniwo que often host events anised by or support of the queer muny; Lastriko, Movida and Kraa Szeptów (Land of Whispers) tgle the gay-dar at low equenci; while Eszeweria (owned and operated by a gay uple), Piękny Pi, Fom, Pza, Cafe Szafe and Klub Re n all generally be nsired safe spac for diversy and acceptance. For a gay-iendly night on the dancefloor, we'd remend Szpalna 1 and Społem Deluxe.

We hear, however, that 's mostly rent boys and tra n be rough; beware of gay bashers lurkg as well. 8 plac sorted by traveler favorWhat travelers are saygRemy??Geneva, Swzerland56 ntributnsA pleasant gay club the heart of Kazimierz. Tripadvisor performs checks on gay club Poland, betifull dience, ol drks and a great fun night.

GAY KRAKOW

Tripadvisor performs checks on mic, nice atmosphere a pretty new gay club Warsaw. It ranks 27 out of 28 European Unn stat when to equaly and non-discrimatn, acrdg to Rabow Europe, an anizatn lked to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn.

” Acrdg to the Campaign Agast Homophobia, 12 percent of people who don’t intify as heterosexual are victims of physil vlence Poland, while around nety percent of cints go unreported, acrdg to the 2016 survey.

Neverthels, “attus towards the LGBTQ muny have e a long way” says Robert Biedron, who beme Poland’s first openly gay and atheistic polician when he me out 2011. He c the risg number of pri monstrators and the fact that he now endur far fewer anti-gay sults om policians and the media. Several thoand people took part the march that was meant to unter the gay pri march of the prev day.