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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

“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. 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.

MOSW COURT UPHOLDS 100-YEAR BAN ON GAY PRI EVENTS

“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. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Imag)Pro-LGBT activists seen durg Katowice Gay Pri Para.

Thoands marched through central Warsaw on Saturday an “equaly para”, amid what mpaigners say has been a risg ti of homophobia Poland recent rights have bee a central part of a wir stggle the untry between liberals, who strs the need for a more tolerant and clive society, and relig nservativ, who nounce what they say is an attempt to subvert tradnal valu the predomantly Catholic a sea of rabow flags, marchers gathered outsi the towerg neo-Gothic Palace of Culture and Science central Warsaw, as a DJ played dance mic om a stage before the start of the march.

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“Homophobia is a huge problem Poland … there are lots of people who n’t pe wh , they kill themselv. Photograph: Wojtek Radwański/AFP/Getty ImagPolicians and clergy have been acced of stokg homophobia Poland.

Some nservativ say they have nothg agast gay people but oppose what they ll “LGBT iology”. Meanwhile, Hungary Viktor Orbán’s natnalist ernment, which is allied wh Poland’s erng Law and Jtice (PiS) party, has troduced a law banng the “display and promotn of homosexualy” among unr-18s.