JAN DE KERNE DANS LA VARSOVIE GAY

Contents:

• GAY EN POLOGNE
• POLAND’S POPULISTS PICK A NEW TOP ENEMY: GAY PEOPLE
• WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE GAY … POLAND?
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS TRóJ
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS STEGNA
• GAY ROWO
• GAY-PORN

GAY EN POLOGNE

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.

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. 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. ”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. 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.

POLAND’S POPULISTS PICK A NEW TOP ENEMY: GAY PEOPLE

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.

WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE GAY … POLAND?

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.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS TRóJ

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. 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.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS STEGNA

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.

GAY ROWO

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.

GAY-PORN

Mirosława Makuchowska, om the Campaign Agast Homophobia, says while such announcements are not legally bdg, they send a “disturbg msage” to the populatn. As Biedron puts , “Polish people have long been surround by rmatn sayg that homosexualy is a disease that n e bra damage.

” A 2017 report by the Centre for Rearch on Prejudice of the Universy of Warsaw found that sce PiS entered ernment 2015, Polish populatn’s exposure to hate speech the media, cludg agast gay people, has creased by 25%.

The report stat that hate speech is “particularly dangero for youth, ” who were found to e hate speech most often and whose “sensivy to homophobic statements” creased.