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- KATOWICE-GAY-PRI-PARA-BY-SILAR
- WARSAW GAY PRI PARA BACK AFTER BACKLASH, PANMIC
- MOSW COURT UPHOLDS 100-YEAR BAN ON GAY PRI EVENTS
- GAY PRI CALENDAR
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She is gay, and gay people are not wele Kozy. But the impact is felt most pafully — and daily — by the gay, lbian and transgenr Pol who live towns that would prefer they simply weren’t there. Parts of s particularly nservative, ral regns to the southeast have never embraced LGBT people; but now, homophobic rhetoric is uttered by the state and preached church, and hostily on the streets is boilg over.
When a massive EU study earlier this year found that LGBT+ people on the ntent generally feel safer than they did five years ago, Poland was the glarg exceptn; two-thirds of gay, lbian and transgenr Pol said tolerance and acts of vlence agast them had creased, while four five said they avoid certa plac for fear of beg asslted — the hight rate Europe.
WARSAW GAY PRI PARA BACK AFTER BACKLASH, PANMIC
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“I’ll never tell them (that I’m gay), ” she says.
Homophobia exists not jt on many of Poland’s streets, but the closed-door uncil meetgs where the eedom of LGBT people is bated; and where a visceral, ep-rooted and alarmgly sual sentiment is laid bare. In Swidnik, a small town near the Ukraian borr, uncilors pated gays and lbians as “radil people strivg for a cultural revolutn, ” accg them of wishg to “attack eedom of speech (and) the nocence of children. ” In Nowa Sarzyna, another eastern town, homosexualy was labelled “ntrary to the laws of nature” and a vlatn of “human digny.
MOSW COURT UPHOLDS 100-YEAR BAN ON GAY PRI EVENTS
Warsaw has held s gay pri para after a panmic-duced break — and amid a backlash Poland and Hungary agast LGBT rights. * parada lgbt katowice *
In the past year, he has e out, attend his first Pri para, and suffered his first experience wh homophobia. The pontiff was born jt a few towns to the east, and is revered for givg Pol hope durg the era of martial law — but his stnch opposn to homosexualy wined the chasm between many LGBT people and the church.
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“I have one iend who was kicked out of his home bee he was gay. They brought a big speaker that plays long homophobic monologu nouncg the LGBT muny as “viant” and “dangero.
But sce s “LGBT-ee” stat was emed unnstutnal and annulled by a lol urt July, the dozy town has been thst to the heart of Poland’s battle over gay rights. Homophobic legislatn and rolutns have forced many Pol to make a choice: leave town or stay quiet. ImagCreativeVioCreativeEdorialEqualy March 2020 In KatowicePro-LGBT activists seen durg Katowice Gay Pri Para.