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THOANDS CELEBRATE LGBTQ PRI POLAND’S PAL WARSAW AMID CRACKDOWN ON GAY RIGHTS
Saturday’s march was one of 24 paras schled to take place this year Poland – a rerd number that mpaigners say is a reactn to the uptick of homophobic and transphobic language by Poland’s Catholic lears and PiS.
“I thk the way that some policians of this party spoke publicly about LGBT[Q] issu ma other people Poland ls aaid to e hate speech, ” lol gay rights activist Joanna Glzek, 28, who -anized Bialystok’s march told CNN. “All the signs are showg that Kaczynski will ntue wh the spegoat strategy, which go hand--hand wh the Polish Catholic church that has ma the LGBTQ muny s biggt enemy, ” said Miroslawa Makuchowska, head of the polil divisn of the Polish advocy group Campaign Agast Homophobia.
The Warsaw-based nonprof Campaign Agast Homophobia (KPH) told CNN that more than 30 uncils had clared themselv ee of “LGBT iology” the past few months – rponse to Warsaw’s liberal mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, om the opposn Civic Platform (PO), signg a claratn support of LGBTQ rights. “We exprs our support for the efforts to raise public awarens of issu affectg the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) muny and other muni Poland facg siar challeng, ” the letter read part. The statement was published on May 17 to mark the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Biphobia and walk towards the startg pot of the Equaly Para, an LGBT pri para, Warsaw.