Warsaw has held s gay pri para after a panmic-duced break — and amid a backlash Poland and Hungary agast LGBT rights.
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WARSAW GAY PRI PARA BACK AFTER BACKLASH, PANMIC
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Embassy and alongsi reprentativ om Canada, Atria and other Wtern untri the Equaly recent years Wtern ernments have been alarmed as the nservative ernment Warsaw picted gays, lbians, bisexuals and transgenr people as threats to the natn and s children.
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.
“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.
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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. 1 of 16 | People take part the Equaly Para, the largt gay pri para central and eastern Europe, Warsaw, Poland, Saturday June 19, 2021.
8 of 16 | People take part the Equaly Para, the largt gay pri para central and eastern Europe, Warsaw, Poland, Saturday June 19, 2021. 9 of 16 | People take part the Equaly Para, the largt gay pri para central and eastern Europe, Warsaw, Poland, on Saturday June 19, 2021.